Apiary Inspector on Vancouver Island
Disease and climate change put pressure on bees and their keepers on Vancouver Island: Apiary inspector. Todd Harmer Without bees, there is no food,…
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Honey Bee Aggression Genes
Honey bee colony aggression linked to gene regulatory networks by Shelby Lawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Collective behaviors are present across many different animal…
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Natural Engineering
Natural Engineering in the Lifestyle of Honey Bees Eric Hedin A week ago, my wife came in and announced, “There’s a scary-looking bees’ nest…
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U.S. Honey Bee Losses
This chart shows the estimated share of bee keepers’ colonies lost in the United States from 2016-17 to 2022-23. We are here to…
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Alert!
Bee aware that “Stop Varroa, Varroa Treatment” (through stopvarroa.com) does not have an EPA registration number and may not be a legitimate product approved…
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Preliminary BIP Results
Links: Previous years: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ BIP website: https://beeinformed.org/ Bee Lab at Auburn University: https://linktr.ee/auburnbees Bee Lab at University of Maryland: https://www.umdbeelab.com/ Survey question previews: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ To read the rest of…
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Pollen as a Nutrient Source
Use of bee pollen as a nutrient source By Bhavana Kunkalikar Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the Nutrients journal, researchers evaluated using…
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Australia’s Varroa Opportunity
Opinion: Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t by Scarlett Howard, Alexander Mikheyev,…
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Where Did Honey Bees Evolve?
Multiple mitogenomes indicate Things Fall Apart with Out of Africa or Asia hypotheses for the phylogeographic evolution of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Steven M….
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Varroa Resistance in NZ
Has the destructive varroa been building ‘home-grown’ pesticide resistance in NZ? Jamie Morton A destructive mite plaguing our beekeeping industry may have been building…
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Honey Bee Vaccine
Dalan Animal Health Ships First Honey Bee Vaccine to Tauzer Apiaries, Potentially Protecting 25 Million Bees. (BUSINESS WIRE)–Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the biotech company…
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NC State Aids Beekeepers
N.C. State aids beekeepers with hive health By SIMON GONZALEZ N.C. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE In the winter of 2006, a distressing phenomenon began to…
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Study Hall
From the Editor By: Jerry Hayes Lots of colony losses once again in 2023. There are three words I want you to remember: Varroa,…
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4-H Pollinator Habitat
4-H Youth Launch Projects to Improve Pollinator Habitat $15K grant supports local efforts in eastern Kansas MANHATTAN, Kan. – An ambitious group of teenagers…
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Asian Honey Bee Hornets
Honey bee populations may collapse due to ineffective defenses. by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of…
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Honey Bee Brood Disease Diagnostics
Links: Brendon.Mott@usda.gov
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4-H Youth Development Free Seeds
Lucile Morehouse, age 12, is an active 4-H member in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. She is the current president for her local 4-H club, shows…
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Honey Bees Have Emotions
Can Bees Feel Emotions? New Study Suggests They Are Sentient By Madeleine Muzdakis Bees are critical to American agriculture. They pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops…
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Honey Bee Virus in Mosquitoes
Honey Bee Virus Found in Mosquitoes ENTOMOLOGY TODAY By Andrew Porterfield Black queen cell virus is a serious problem for beekeepers. It infects developing…
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New Honey Bee Facility in Canada
New Honey Bee Research Centre creating a buzz at Univ. of Guelph Set to break ground this summer, the new Honey Bee Research Centre…
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