CATCH THE BUZZ- Eco-Friendly Pollen Sponge for Water Contaminants.
Eco-friendly pollen sponge to tackle water contaminants Scientists at NTU Singapore have created a reusable, biodegradable sponge that can readily soak up oil and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- $1.4 Million Grant to Study Pollinator Evolution
Entomologist to examine how plant domestication influences pollinator evolution Bees gather pollen on a squash blossom. Entomologist Margarita López-Uribe has received a National Science…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Training Honey Bees to Smell COVID
Start-up InsectSense and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have trained bees to extend their tongues when they smell the coronavirus. The coronavirus, like other diseases, causes…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ- Almond Grower Trials of Bee Vectoring Technology
Bee Vectoring Technologies Announces Start of the Sales Process in World’s Largest Almond Market Mississauga, Ontario and Sacramento, California–(Newsfile Corp. – March 10, 2021)…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Royal Jelly is not the Whole Story
Royal jelly does not a queen make! What makes a queen? For bees, it’s long been believed that queenliness depends on a special diet…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Annual Loss Survey
The 2020-2021 Annual Loss and Management Survey is live! The Bee Informed Partnership team, in collaboration with the Auburn University Bee Lab, are enthusiastically…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Sentinel Apiary Program
How can beekeepers impact honey bee health research? Since 2015, Bee Informed Partnership’s Sentinel Apiary Program has collected invaluable data that helps researchers answer…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UC Davis Honey Bee Health Funding
UC grant to strengthen honey bee health and crop pollination Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño (center) of UC Davis opens a hive. A new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – American Bee Research Conference, Student Winners
Our yearly meeting (American Bee Research Conference) was held last week Jan 7-8, 2021. It was a wonderful 2 days of 40+ presentations, including…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- USDA Honey Bee and Pollinator Health Funding
USDA Provides more than $70 Million in Fiscal Year 2021 to Protect Agriculture and Natural Resources from Plant Pests and Diseases USDA Animal and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Fungus Commits Flower Fraud
ARS News Service Fungus Commits Floral Fraud to Fool Insects into Spreading It For media inquiries contact: Jan Suszkiw, (301) 504-1630 November 24, 2020 The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Feeding on Nectar…More than one way
Researchers discover honey bees have more than one way to feed on nectar By: Bob Yirka – Phys.org (a) Four micrographs of a honeybee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- COLOSS Funding
Boost for funding for honey bee health COLOSS, Institute of Bee Health, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Schwarzenburgstrasse 161 3003 Bern, Switzerland. www.coloss.org Boost…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Israeli Students Make Fake Honey.
The Technion team’s synthetic honey is produced by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, which ‘learns’ to make honey following reprogramming in a lab. By: Brian…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Listen In On The Most Unique, Fantastic Research Projects We’ve Heard On Varroa Control. You Won’t Believe It!
From www.Beekeepingtodaypodcast.com. Listen in on this. Joining this episode is a team representing one of the 18 finalist in the Empire State Development and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – COL0SS at Apimondia Elects Officers, and, Bumblebee Males Make Bumblebee Queens Blind, For A While.
The 15th Conference of the COLOSS honey bee research association has now concluded at the Université Laval bureau in Montréal, Canada. The meeting was…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – California State Beekeepers Fund Research, and, NECTAR Gets Funding for Development of In-Hive Sensors.
NECTAR, a startup offering a management platform for commercial beekeepers and crop growers, has raised a $1.1 million CAD seed round. 2020 Priorities For…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – THREE TODAY!
Movement of Pesticides into Flowers, Nectar and Pollen Patterns of Pesticide Use Affect Pollinators Beekeeping Business Uses Every Bit of the Bees, the Land…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The USDA Plans to Reskill Employees for a Data-Heavy Future and Create a CIO Development Program.
By: Brandi Vincent – Staff Correspondent NextGov The Agriculture Department is embarking on a “huge campaign” to build and improve its information technology workforce,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agriculture’s Increasing Dependence on Pollination, Coupled with a Lack of Crop Diversity, May Threaten Food Security and Stability.
Alan Harman New research suggests global trends in farming practices are undermining the pollinators that crops depend on and putting agricultural productivity and stability…
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