CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Disaster Recovery Assistance Applications Now Open
By: Natalina Sents Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday that farmers and ranchers who suffered damage from hurricanes and wildfires in 2017 may…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Good Food Awards Is Excited to Announce The Launch of its Ninth Year With a Call for Entries July 2-31! Submit Your Honey!
The Good Food Awards invites food producers from across the country to submit their beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, cider, coffee, confections, elixirs, honey, oils,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Exposure of Hummingbirds and Bumble Bees to Pesticides.
New research reveals that hummingbirds and bumble bees are being exposed to neonicotinoid and other pesticides through routes that are widespread and complex. The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Don’t miss Bee Culture’s Pollinator Day, July 21 at the A. I. Root Company Gardens.
MEDINA, Ohio – Bee Culture Magazine, the nation’s leading journal of beekeeping, will host its 4th Annual Pollinator Day, July 21, in Medina at 623…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Culture’s Pollinator Day. Free, Fun and Functional. The Bees Love it!!!
Bee Culture Magazine’s 4th Annual Pollinator Day to be held at Root Candles, Medina Tour our Pollinator Gardens on Saturday, July 21, from 10…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bipartisan Bill Delays Hours of Service and ELD Enforcement for Reform.
Wyatt Bechtel – Drovers Two U.S. Senators proposed a bipartisan bill that would allow for reform of the hours of service and Electronic Logging…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Technology Makes Commercial Beekeeping More Efficient, Profitable
In an effort to provide beekeepers with a more effective and comprehensive management system, two Healthy Hives 2020 grant recipients recently announced a new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UF’s New Honey Bee Lab Will Support Beekeeping, Agriculture
Samantha Grenrock GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty percent of the food we eat is made possible by honey bees. And behind each of these hardworking…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Culture’s Event – “My Story” – October 2018
Register TODAY!!! – http://store.beeculture.com/events/
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Costco/PAm Scholarships Invest In Honey Bee Research. Over $550,000 So Far.
Sarah Yaddaw, Communications Director PAm Meet Project Apis m’s Board of Directors July 21 on the KIM&JIM show. Watch for details and time on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 27 Unknown Bee Viruses Discovered. 27!
An international team of researchers has discovered evidence of 27 previously unknown viruses in bees. The finding could help scientists design strategies to prevent…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Dropcopter Releases Pollination Results. Way More Fruit Using a Drone Than When Using Honey Bees.
Dropcopter, a drone AG startup based in California and Central New York, recently made headlines as the first company to successfully pollinate almonds, cherries…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – OZ May Have Better Manuka Than New Zealand Afterall.
Alan Harman Australia is home to 85 of the world’s 87 leptospermum species. (Photo: Sunshine Coast University) Australian native leptospermum spp. honey has the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Attention US Beekeepers: Researchers Need Mites to Sample. Check Out How, and Why
At the University of Wisconsin-Stout, we are investigating a potential new bacterial disease of honey bees which may be transmitted by Varroa destructor mites….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Prioritize the Nutritional Status of Larvae When Selecting for a New Emergency Queen.
OSU honey bee researcher Ramesh Sagili inspects a European honeybee in a carrot seed field near Madras (Photo: Lynn Ketchum/OSU) CORVALLIS, Ore. – New research shows…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Culture’s First Podcast
Bee Culture’s very first podcast, BeekeepingTodayPodcast has been released and is available on their webpage at http://beekeepingtodaypodcast.com/. Jeff Ott and Kim Flottum have put…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Varroa Mites, Pesticides, Viruses, Pollination, Honey – a Beekeeper’s Life
Laura Reiley, Tampa Bay Times Rolling Stone Photo FORT MEADE — Jim Doan pats the bees gently with the flat of his…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee City USA Joins Forces with the Xerces Society.
Bee City USA began as a spark from one person and has grown into a nationwide network of communities large and small dedicated to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Not Putting Poison on Plants Helps Pollinators, People. Who Would Have Thought?
First-of-its-kind campaign will provide home gardeners with tips on protecting honey bees and native pollinators. To help home gardeners protect honey bees and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Hundreds and Hundreds of Bumble and Other Bees Killed on Linden Trees in Virginia.
There was a Linden tree associated kill event in Reston, VA this week. Table below documents the species involved (Sam Droge did all the identifications)…
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