CATCH THE BUZZ – Fungus Provides Powerful Medicine In Fighting Honey Bee Viruses.
By: Scott Weybright – Washington State University A Reishi Fungus Steve Sheppard and his team provide the mushroom extract to a bee colony as part…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Seeing Pesticides Spread Through Insect Bodies.
Osaka University IMAGE: IMIDACLOPRID DISTRIBUTION (TARGET M/Z211.07) IN (A) IMIDACLOPRID-DOSED FLIES AND (B) BLANK CONTROL FLIES. THE MATRIX WAS 2,5-DIHYDROXYBENZOIC ACID AND THE MEASUREMENT PITCH WAS…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Glyphosate Keeps Showing Up in Honey Bee Health Studies. Maybe it’s not as Benign as We Think?
By: Karen Fleur Tofti-Tufarelli The royal jelly-producing glands of bees exposed to Round-up® experience premature aging, according to a Brazilian study published online. Round-up®…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sensory Evaluation of Honey Developing into Honey Education Summit!
There are so many ways to describe nature’s perfect sweet – honey: aroma, flavor, texture and color. This course will teach you the tools…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pollen Trapping and Feeding Sugar Syrup Enhances Pollen Collection of Less Preferred Flowers
Pretty to look at, but they taste awful to a bee Abstract Pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) is characterized by being self-incompatible and dependent on cross-pollination…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Forms Three-Pronged Strategy, Seed Traits, Chemicals, and Digital Agriculture from Monsanto.
By: Gil Gullickson Bayer started integrating Monsanto roughly a month ago after buying it earlier this year. So what’s happened so far? Bayer CropScience executives…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Revered as a Humanitarian and Scientist, Warwick Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas
Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan, In the Scientist Brazilian entomologist Warwick Estevam Kerr died on September 15 in São Paulo at age 96. Kerr leaves behind…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Chinese Producers Expected to Beat US Tariffs by Rerouting Goods. Experts Say Practice is Already Widespread
TOH HAN SHIH, Contributing writer Experts expect the Chinese goods will enter the U.S. market illegally, but under the guise of another country. ©…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Comparative Pollination Efficacies of Five Bee Species on Raspberry Show Honey Bees Doing Just Fine.
Unlike many other rosaceous fruit crops, commercial raspberry cultivars are largely self-fertile and mostly self-pollinate autogamously. However, their floral morphology does not allow for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BEEsharing – An Online Network That Combines Beekeeping and Agriculture. A Digital Pollination Broker
BEEsharing: Using bees to produce more fruit and vegetables. Senator Frank Horch, in a conversation with start-up BEEsharing, on bees in fruit and vegetable…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Citrus Under Protective Screening Keeps Out Greening, Strong Winds and Honey Bees
Citrus Under Protective Screening ‘CUPS’ protects citrus from greening and storms. A system designed to protect citrus trees from the deadly greening disease withstood…
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CATCH THE BUZZ -A Stiff Breeze is no Match for a Honey Bee Swarm
A stiff breeze is no match for a clump of honey bees, and now scientists are beginning to understand why. When scouting out a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pollinating as Important as Honey for Beekeeping Income
By: Jenny Schlecht Chad Price, left, and Brandon Weatherly extract honey and remove surplus boxes north of Medina, N.D., on Sept. 10, 2018. Jenny…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beekeepers Watchful as Pee Dee Counties in South Carolina Increase Mosquito Sprayings
Tom Hallman, Public Service and Agriculture Beekeepers are advised to be aware of increased mosquito sprayings promoted by Hurricane Florence floodwaters and to prepare…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Couple Donate $1 Million to WSU Pollinator Center. New Building Will Consolidate Honey Bee Program on Pullman Campus
By: Justyna Tomtas – The Tribune “The program is doing phenomenal work, despite the challenges involved in shuffling between facilities to conduct complex bee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beekeeping Industry Notes the Passing of Jack Thomas, Co-Founder of Mann Lake Bee Supply.
John “Jack” T. Thomas September 27, 1936 – September 17, 2018 “The thoughtful little things you do each day have an accumulated effect on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – First Honey Products Clear NSF Certification.
Three food manufacturers have gone through a certification process for honey, designed to combat fraud, run by standards body NSF. The first three products…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Supports EPA’s Conclusion That the Available Scientific Evidence Does Not Indicate the Need for a Total Ban on the Use of Chlorpyrifos.
(Washington, D.C., September 24, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today praised the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to request a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ: Honey Tasting – Learn Just The Basics
This basic foundation course is an introduction into the sensory methods used by sommeliers to taste and evaluate honey. Perfect for honey enthusiasts, beekeepers, chefs, bakers or brewing professionals. Sunday,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ -Are Honey Bees Next? Beetle Adapts Chemical Mimicry to Parasitize Different Bee Species.
A male digger bee (Habropoda pallida) from the Mojave Desert covered with Meloe franciscanus triungulins (larvae). Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz) A beetle that tricks…
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