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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CATCH THE BUZZ – Wildfires Disrupt Important Pollination Processes by Moths and Increase Extinction Risks.
Newcastle University IMAGE: The effects of wildfire can clearly be seen at one of the study sites: although the ground flora has begun to regenerate,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Make the Future Happen. Be Part of The Bee Health Guru Smartphone App.
Developers of the Honey Bee Health Guru smartphone application report they have exceeded the Kickstarter.com stated goal of $13,400 to produce the first-ever diagnostic…
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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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