A Closer Look
VIRAL DISEASE SUSPECTIBILITY AND TRANSMISSION Transmission among colonies is a central feature for the epidemiology of honey bee pathogens.. Honey bees are social insects living in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Purdue Extension Protecting Pollinators team honored with educational project award
By Darrin Pack WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue Extension initiative designed to help educate the public, farmers and agrochemical professionals about vital pollinator…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Similar, But Different Genomes Separate Mountain Bees From Savannah Bees In Africa
Mountain-dwelling East African honey bees have distinct genetic variations compared to their savannah relatives that likely help them to survive at high altitudes,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Where have all the insects gone?
FROM: Science magazine Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used…
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Worker Reproduction Reproductive workers are seldom seen in colonies with a laying queen. Honey bee workers are sexually undeveloped females and under normal hive…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Researchers examine how supporting pollinators helps agriculture
By Tara Roberts When agriculture helps pollinators, pollinators help agriculture, according to a research review published recently by an international group of experts, including…
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Queen Rearing Behaviors Conflict and cooperation during queen replacement. The production of new queens is a colony level process involving the coordinated activities of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey bees navigate using magnetic abdomens
Honey bees appear to sense magnetic fields using a magnetic structure in their abdomens, according to a team of physicists and biologists in Canada….
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – A new University of Illinois study puts climate change predictions in terms that farmers are used to: field working days.
URBANA, Ill. – Scientists the world over are working to predict how climate change will affect our planet. It is an extremely complex puzzle…
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By: Clarence Collison The Queen’s Court Usually eight or more worker attendants are present when a queen is stationary, but they tend to lose…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – So, where do honey bees come from, really? California Scientists want to know.
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis and UC Berkeley clears some of the fog around honey bee origins. The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Watch this video. It’s amazing.
Filmed and written by Michael N Sutton Apocrita is suborder of insects in the order Hymenoptera (Bees, wasps, and ants). This film is a…
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By Clarence Collison POLLEN CONSUMPTION AND DIGESTION Protein (pollen) consumption is necessary for the glands to develop fully and to produce high quality protein-rich…
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Jay Evans
By: Jay Evans Studying The Weather Goes A Long Way In Knowing Colony Health Honey bee colonies, along with humans and the rest of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UC Davis Bumble Bee Expert Helped Sound the Alarm
Kathy Keatley Garvey UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology DAVIS–Hear that buzz? That’s the sound of success. And bumble bee expert Robbin Thorp,…
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CLARENCE COLLISON: A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison VARROA MITE POPULATION GROWTH A factor that might contribute to the growth of Varroa populations is the migration of mites into…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Help bees by restoring natural landscapes, roadside planting, green belts, green roofs and urban gardening initiatives.
By Bill Hicks SUISUN CITY — As a county with an economy strongly tied to agriculture, Solano County should care greatly about the health and…
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PARASITE, PATHOGEN, PESTICIDE, POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS Honey bees are suffering from elevated colony losses in the northern hemisphere possibly because of a variety of emergent…
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Orientation Flights And Scouting Behavior By: Clarence Collison Honey bees take repeated orientation flights before becoming foragers at about three weeks of age (Winston 1987)….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – No single protein determines queen development in honeybees
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg In the first few days after they hatch, honey bee larvae feed on royal jelly secreted by the hypopharyngeal glands of adult…
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