Neonicotinoid Pesticides: A Major Problem For Bees, Part V
The often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by the evidence. So…
Read MoreThe often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by the evidence. So…
Read MoreHoney Bee Health Coalition Congratulates Winners of Nutrition Competition Winners Will Use $40,000 in Prize Money to Improve, Accelerate Honey Bee Nutrition. The Honey…
Read MoreCHICAGO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers at…
Read MoreTo measure energy levels in honey bees, researchers extracted their “blood” (hemolymph) using a microcapillary tube. Credit: Riccardo Cabbri The combined effects…
Read MoreBy: Clarence Collison BIOGENIC AMINES They play a role in the regulation of honey bee behavioral development and are particularly important in the control…
Read MoreAntibiotic use in farming and human health leads to bacteria acquiring resistance (indicated by a + sign in the illustration). Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the…
Read MoreBy Dewey Caron In Wilsonville, Oregon there was a massive kill of bumble bees in the parking lot of a Target store on a…
Read MoreBy: Ross Conrad The often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by the…
Read MoreThe honey bee gut is colonized by specialized bacteria that help digest components of the floral pollen diet and produce molecules that likely…
Read MoreBy: Ross Conrad The dose response characteristics of neonicotinoid insecticides turn out to be identical to those of genotoxic carcinogens, which are the most dangerous…
Read MoreUniversity of Maryland doctoral student Samuel Ramsey has conducted award-winning research on honey bees in Thailand. (Courtesy of John Consoli) By Noah Fortson Trekking through…
Read MoreDaniel Cressey, in Nature Researchers have monitored the health of the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis-rufa), which nests in hollow cavities. Maj Rundlöf remembers…
Read MoreLaura Brutscher, who earned her doctorate at MSU in July, had her dissertation research published in the journal Scientific Reports in the same month….
Read MoreBy: Peter Snyder We are pleased to report that beekeepers in the United States have a new ally in the battle to identify a…
Read MoreWhen a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they expected to find stressors…
Read MoreBy: Entomology Today American foulbrood is a bacterial disease afflicting honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. The Paenibacillus larvae bacterium germinates in the gut of a…
Read MoreISCA Technologies Inc. IMAGE: ISCA Technologies’ SPLAT Bloom is being developed with a USDA grant. It uses pheromones to focus bees brought to orchards on…
Read MoreA farmer from the Miao ethnic minority group sprays pesticide on his Panax pseudoginseng field. Dehou Town, Wenshan County, Yunnan Province. (Image: Simon Lim / Greenpeace)…
Read MoreThe often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by the evidence. Harm…
Read MorePaper co-authors Ping Wen (left) and Shi-hao Dong (right) study Asian hornets. Credit: James Nieh Over the past decade, Asian hornets, predatory insects with…
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