Category: Found in Translation
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! DNA Fingerprinting By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Long before your personal fingerprints became a tool to open computers, they were used to help solve crimes and other mysteries. Unique to all…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Bee Genes: Stayin’ Alive By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Like master gardeners scouring seed catalogues, many beekeepers spend their Winters pondering honey bee genetics. Practically, this involves comparing tried-and-true versus new…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! What’s in Your Bee Scene? By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Whether you consider your honey bees as an agricultural asset or something more like a pet, bees defy both of those…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Micronutrients With Large Impacts By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab After hundreds of millions of years, pollen is a pretty perfect food for raising bees. This is not an absolute; some pollens…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Drone Patrol By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab The renowned Australian bee scientist (and co-manager of Australia’s National Honey Bee Genetic Improvement Program), Elizabeth Frost, sent this magazine an interesting observation about…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Tropilaelaps and Co. By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much has been written about Tropilaelaps mites and their impacts on honey bees both in their native range and, following recent hops, in…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Found in Translation Diverse Bouquets By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab (Click on photos to enlarge) I recently wrote about new work showing how honey bees recruit nestmates to different flower patches…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Small Hive Beetles, Arrivals and Departures By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much effort by beekeepers and scientists focuses on a few key challenges to honey bee health, from varroa and viruses…