What has been done in the fight against Varroa destructor: from the past to the present

Bees are the major pollinators in natural ecosystems and agricultural production of several crops used for human consumption. However, they exposed to multiple stressors that causing a serious decline their population. We highlight one among them, Varroa destructor mite (Varroa) causes severe impacts on health honey bee colonies, transmitting variety viruses can affect survival ability individual bees entire colonies. Diagnosis control methods have been intensively studied recent decades, with many studies different areas knowledge having conducted. This overview summarizes these focus colony defense systems, biological characteristics parasite Varroa, diagnostic establish infestation level currently methods.