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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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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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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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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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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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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Urban Microbiome and Bees
Environment: Honey bees provide a snapshot of city landscape and health by BioMed Central Urban honey bees could be used to gain insight into the…
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Fingerprinting Honey
EMU researchers are chemically “fingerprinting” different varieties of honey The team is working towards picking up chemical cues in honey to tell the botanical…
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Management System Research
Conventional, Organic, Chemical Free Beekeeping Research Their results, reported recently in Scientific Reports, showed that organic and conventional management systems both increased winter survival by…
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Spring into Action
The BIP Annual Loss and Management Survey provides data that is important for fellow beekeepers, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders to understand the…
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Bee a Part of Something Big
Bee a Part of Something Big: Participate in the Loss and Management Survey Nathalie Steinhauer1, Mikayla Wilson1, Dan Aurell2, Selina Bruckner2 and Geoff Williams2…
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Honey Bee Navigation
NEW RESEARCH REVEALS A QUITE INTERESTING FACT ABOUT HOW HONEY BEES FIND THEIR WAY HOME – WITHOUT A GPS ANIMAL STUDIES BY KAMAL SAINI Researchers…
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Annual BIP Survey
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2023 ABRC Proceedings Now Available
The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) hosted its annual meeting, the American Bee Research Conference (ABRC), in Jacksonville, Florida on January 5th and…
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.23 The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) hosted its annual meeting, the American Bee Research Conference (ABRC), in Jacksonville, Florida on January 5th…
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Refrigerated Queens
Indoor ‘queen banking’ could help beekeepers deal with changing climate Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make storing them more stable…
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