Threats and pests

Leave a super of drawn comb in the garage and wax moths will reduce it to silk tunnels and frass in weeks. The larvae eat beeswax, cocoons, and pollen.

From oil traps to Beetle Blasters to Freeman traps. The small hive beetle arrived in 1998 and beekeepers have been improvising containment ever since.

Confirmed in Georgia and South Carolina. Here's what the spread looks like by county, how fast it's moving, and what it does to honey bee colonies when it arrives.