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MEBANE, N.C. (WGHP) \u2014 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Pollinator Center is working with a beekeeper to test honey and hives for mites that are harming the bee population.\u00a0<\/p>

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Experts say these mites are becoming resistant to the pesticides beekeepers use, putting their colonies at risk. Now, they\u2019re learning how to breed bees to naturally fight off these mites.<\/p>\n

Mite Fight<\/h2>\n
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UNCG\u2019s Pollinator Center is partnering with King Cobra Apiary in Mebane to find a way to protect local bee colonies from Varroa destructor mites.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs many people know, we\u2019ve had a lot of colony losses, especially over the last five or ten years in the United States,\u201d Director of the UNCG Plant and Pollinator Center Kaira Wagoner said.<\/p>\n

She says the mites are a major predator of bees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wagoner says the mites are becoming resistant to miticide, which is a pesticide specifically made to control the mites, but they\u2019re finding these chemicals just aren\u2019t working to protect colonies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do here today is look at what factors are driving that resistance,\u201d Wagoner said.<\/p>\n

Beekeepers are now looking for ways to naturally fight the mites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can get these samples from a commercial beekeeper. \u2026 Real-world bees that are just not in a research apiary. We can compare them to the colonies that we don\u2019t actually treat with these miticides,\u201d Wagoner said.<\/p>

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Benefits<\/h2>\n

Ali Iyoob says that as a commercial beekeeper, the research is benefiting his colony in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cReal-world examples of how bees that go on pollination, that are used to reproduce honey, that are used to make queens and sell bees. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to protect,\u201d Iyoob said.<\/p>\n

Wagoner says the pollinators\u2019 health directly impacts food security not only in the region or state but across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne in every three bites of food that you eat is thanks to a pollinator, and so it is really, really important that we are able to maintain healthy pollinators, healthy honeybees across the entire country,\u201d Wagoner said.<\/p>\n

Wagoner says her team has already been able to see direct results from some of the samples they\u2019ve taken. They will continue to assess the colonies and slowly build knowledge on how to protect the pollinators from mites.<\/p>

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MEBANE, N.C. (WGHP) \u2014 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Pollinator Center is working with a beekeeper to test honey and hives for mites that are harming the bee population.\u00a0 Experts say these mites are becoming resistant to the pesticides beekeepers use, putting their colonies at risk. 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