By Elina L. Niño (AAPA President), Extension Specialist, University of California ANR Cooperative Extension, Davis, CA, and Michael Simone-Finstrom (AAPA Vice-President), Honey Bee Breeding,…
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By: Jay Evans Good Bug, Bad Bug As I finish this column on Super Bowl Sunday I am reminded of a sarcastic comment used…
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Scientists have just decoded another bit of honey bee speech, and the newfound “word” the bees are buzzing is “whoop.” In a study published in the…
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Sessions are the third Wednesday of the month, beginning at 9AM EASTERN. All webinars are free, and registration is not required. The schedule for this year is…
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Where do honey bees come from? A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis and UC Berkeley clears some of the…
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One (or more) awards available in 2017; the total amount available for all awards is $10,000. The award will be announced at the EAS…
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Published today in the open-access journal GigaScience is an article that presents the genome of a parasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, that infects bee colonies,…
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As bees slip onto the endangered species list in the United States, researchers in Japan are pollinating lilies with insect-sized drones. The undersides of…
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In the fall of 1997, a small group of dedicated monarch scientists and volunteers set out to count how many monarch butterflies were overwintering…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting the 2016 Certified Organic Survey, a yearly census taken to gather new data…
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Véto-pharma survey – Honey bee viruses Véto-pharma (www.veto-pharma.com), the French company, which manufactures Apivar and Varroa EasyCheck, has released a new survey to help…
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HIGH ALERT: Australian beekeepers are being urged to remain on the lookout for small hive beetle. BEEKEEPERS are being urged to remain on the…
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BY NCGA | January 27, 2017 A new honey bee testing service announced this week will allow beekeepers to more effectively identify and address…
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Tracy Vence In October, PLOS announced that Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Marincola will be leaving the nonprofit at the end of this year. The…
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Pitching in: USU biologists study development of division of labor among bees Washington State’s solitary alkali bees provide insights about social bees Utah State…
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“We need to pay more attention to scale in our research, as farmers face tradeoffs and time-sensitive use of resources.” A voice from Big…
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U.S. President Donald Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as his nominee for secretary of agriculture on Thursday, a senior transition…
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By: Jay Evans What’s Going On At The Beltsville Bee Lab? Practical research discoveries follow a twisting path. Basic research driven by the human…
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DEADLINE 2/3/17 The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) is seeking proposals for research related to improving the health of honey bees. Proposals should…
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Published in the online “Journal of Pollination Ecology” Researchers on this study included Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D., Retha Edens-Meier, Ph.D, and Gerardo Camilo, Ph. D,…
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