CATCH THE BUZZ – Mechanical Pollination
Successful field trials of Edete’s artificial pollination technology advance entry into the huge California almond market About 75% of the world’s crops rely on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Needs Your Donation
Hello! The Bee Informed Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to research and collect honey bee health surveillance data and make…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Berea College, Bee Campus USA
Berea College Recognized For Supporting Pollination By: Stu Johnson Berea College is now officially certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program. The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beekeeping Sweetens Depressed Economy
Beekeeping Sweetens Depressed Economy in W.Va. Coal Country, Detroit By: Jean Lotus Beekeeping collectives in Detroit and West Virginia coal country are providing economic…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – On The Greek Island of Ikaria, Where Life Expectancy is Among the Highest in the World, Residents Credit the Local Honey.
Not far from the picture-perfect tourist hubs of Santorini and Mykonos, where cruise ships unload tourists by the thousands, sits another Greek island, more…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape – Get a Bees Eye View of Your Landscape.
Dear Bee Enthusiast, Greetings from the Beescape Team! We are writing to inform you about the “Beescape” bee management and conservation platform. You can…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 2018 Irrigation and Water Management Data now Available!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2019 – There were 231,474 farms with 55.9 million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water applied in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Free Planting Guides for Farmers Planting Cover Crops, and, Florida Wants a Honey Bee License Plate.
Bill Spiegel – Successful Farming Staff Farmers who want to start growing cover crops can turn to “recipes” on the Midwest Cover Crops Council website….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Grimshaw Beekeeping Family Awarded 2019 BMO Farm Family Award.
Emma Mason, Staff The Mighty Peace Honey farm in Grimshaw (Supplied by Andrew Dickson) A family of beekeepers in Grimshaw are one of 13…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Crop Insurance for Beekeepers Application Deadline Is November 15. Don’t Delay!
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (USDA RMA) are reminding Florida pasture,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Honey Abuzz With High-Value Antibacterial Activity, and, Cypriot Honey Best in the World.
By: University of Technology – Sydney Australia has at least seven Leptospermum species that produce honey with exceptionally high levels of antibacterial activity, providing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ALL AROUND THE BEEYARD is a Regular Column in Bee Culture, Written by Our Readers For Our Readers. How to Solve Those Tricky Problems.
Have you figured out a way to fix it, move it, make it, shake it, show it, know it, record it, get to it,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Recent Study Demonstrates Math Skills of Honey Bees, and, Maybe, CCD Effects on Commercial Bees are ‘Very Small’.
A recent study at RMIT University, Australia, led by Scarlett Howard and Adrian Dyer, has demonstrated the ability of honey bees to distinguish between…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – PLATE TECTONICS. Show Us Your Beekeeping Plates!!
That’s the Editors License Plate…BEEMAG. He has a personal plate that he pays extra for, and he makes a contribution to the Ohio State…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Fairmont Waterfront Hotels in Vancouver has 40,000 Bees
A Beekeeper at the Fairmont Waterfront in Vancouver, BC. At the Jumeirah Frankfurt in Germany, the hotel’s honey is used in everything from food…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sentinel Apiary Program Monthly Memo: October Issue.
Written By: Kelly Kulhanek Original photo of mite: Julia Stoess Welcome back to yet another Sentinel Apiaries update. We’re coming to you in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – “Saving America’s Pollinators Act Stalled in Congress, and, Pollinator Biodiversity has Wide-Ranging Benefits for Farms
By: Marc Heller – E&E News Reporter Neonicotinoid Bill Held Up by Busy Agenda. Rep. Earl Blumenauer said he’s looking for a lull in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Issue Wake-Up Call: Natural Hazard Threats to Pollinators and Pollination.
Global map of the 117 studies reviewed. Kathy Keatley Garvey UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology DAVIS–A newly published first-of-its-kind review involving pollinators,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Don’t Poop Where You Eat, and, It’s Been Cold in Calgary This Season.
A Bouquet of Result A photo of a bee poop spot (the bright pink) on flower petals. Photo credit: Jonah Bodden, and, Bee footprints…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Biodiversity Improves Crop Production, and, Trees for Bees Stems Climate Change.
Ecologists and biologists compared data of about 1,500 agricultural fields around the world: from corn fields in the American plains to oilseed rape fields…
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