CATCH THE BUZZ – The Self-Grooming Behavior of Honey Bees Can Be Affected By Pesticides.
University of Guelph A University of Guelph study is the first to uncover the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees’ ability to groom…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pretty Straight Forward. ND Wants to Fund Research. Here’s How You Find Out More!
1. INTRODUCTION The North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) is seeking grant proposals for research devoted to finding practical solutions to honey bee health…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Microscopic Nanocrystals, the Size of Pollen Grains, Used to Track the Path of Pollen from Flower to Flower.
A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University is using quantum dots to track the fate of individual pollen grains. This is breaking new ground in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – California Monarch Butterfly Population Down 86 Percent in One Year.
KQED Science California’s coast has historically hosted millions of overwintering monarch butterflies. This is a shot from the 2016 overwintering season at the Monarch…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Where Did Those Flowers Come From? Now We Know.
University of Minnesota Movement is one of the most common processes in all biology–mice forage for food and geese migrate with the seasons. While…
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MELISSOPALYNOLOGY
By Vaughn Bryant The Science Of Using Pollen To Study Honey. INTRODUCTION Melissopalynology is the study of pollen in honey. The term comes from…
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BXML Part 2 Achieving The Goal Of Standardized Data
By Joseph Cazier, Walter Haefeker & Edgar Hassler In Search Of The Genius Hive Last month, in the October issue of Bee Culture, our…
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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 -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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Go With What We Know
By: Jennifer Berry Use Methods For Controlling Varroa That Are Tested, Legal and Work Last year, a new method of using oxalic acid (OA)…
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BEEWEEK IN BRUSSELS
By: Joseph Cazier Why Americans Should Care Introduction From June 26-28, 2018 the European Parliament hosted the seventh annual BeeWeek in Brussels, Belgium. I was…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australia Honey has Unique Pollen Signature.
Australian honey, produced from domesticated European honey bees mostly foraging in native vegetation, is unique. Under the microscope, most Australian honey samples can be…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Technology Makes Commercial Beekeeping More Efficient, Profitable
In an effort to provide beekeepers with a more effective and comprehensive management system, two Healthy Hives 2020 grant recipients recently announced a new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UF’s New Honey Bee Lab Will Support Beekeeping, Agriculture
Samantha Grenrock GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty percent of the food we eat is made possible by honey bees. And behind each of these hardworking…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Costco/PAm Scholarships Invest In Honey Bee Research. Over $550,000 So Far.
Sarah Yaddaw, Communications Director PAm Meet Project Apis m’s Board of Directors July 21 on the KIM&JIM show. Watch for details and time on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Scientists Taught Bees the Concept of Zero — Something Human Children Struggle With.
By: Brian Resnick Zero, zilch, nothing, is a pretty hard concept to understand. Children generally can’t grasp it until kindergarten. And it’s a concept that…
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IPM Research At The University Of British Columbia
By: Shelley Tomlinson Biologists, beekeepers and economists are all working together at the University of British Columbia (UBC) to help beekeepers deal with challenges…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Two Healthy Bees 2020 Webinars During Pollinator Week. Commercial Beekeeping Plans and Deformed Wing Virus Update.
REGISTER FOR THESE WEBINARS HERE: https://www.beeculture.com/kimandjimshow/ June 19, 2018, 12 – 1 p.m. EDT Hive Management 2.0: Developing a Practical Tool for Commercial Beekeepers…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Launches First Social Science Survey – Please Participate!
Hi there! As beekeepers, we all love to talk about bees and why we love what we do. Most surveys focus on the bees…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – La Nina is dead. Long live El Nino? Is El Nino Coming Back?
Wildfires charge across western Oklahoma in April 2018 – © Oklahoma State University Ag Communications Services Stillwater, OK 74078 By Bloomberg La Nina is dead….
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