CATCH THE BUZZ – Long Term Exposure to Common Pesticide Damages Honey Bee’s Ability to Fly.
By University of California – San Diego A honey bee (Apis mellifera) is harnessed for study on a flight mill in biology professor James…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP is looking for a New EX Director. Interested? – www.beeinformed.org
From Karen Rennich: The Bee Informed Partnership has been instrumental in the management, loss and field surveillance efforts since 2011 and have teams on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Disrupting One Gene Could Be First Step Toward Treating Honey Bee Parasite Nosema Ceranae.
By: Kim Kaplan Jay Evans, research leader of the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, June 20, 2019—Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have taken…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Launches Blue Ribbon Beekeepers Pollinator Week.
The company announced Blue Ribbon Beekeepers to recognize the outstanding achievements of young people who have made a positive impact on their communities through…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Can Honey Bees Count? They Can Match A Character To A Quantity. So….
A team of scientists from RMIT University, Monash University and the University of Toulouse III has trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to match a character…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manuka Honey to Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Cystic Fibrosis Infections.
Swansea University Manuka honey could provide the key to a breakthrough treatment for cystic fibrosis patients following preliminary work by experts at Swansea University….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Round Up – Could This Commonly Used Herbicide Could Also Be Having Adverse Effects on The Health and Behavior of Honey Bees.
By: Michael Balter Is one of the world’s most widely used herbicides a danger not only to annoying weeds, but also to honeybees? While…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Weed Killer Residues Found in 98 Percent of Canadian Honey Samples.
Carey Gillam As U.S. regulators continue to dance around the issue of testing foods for residues of glyphosate weed killers, government scientists in Canada…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – How A Queen Bee Achieves Her Regal Status That Elevates Her From Her Sterile Worker Sisters Has Been A Long-Standing Question
CRISPR gene-editing used to understand links between diet and genetics to make a future honey bee queen. How a queen bee achieves her regal…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Looking For Agencies Who Are Leading The Field In Pollinator-Friendly Roadside Practices.
NAPPC Roadside Managers Award Pollinator Roadways is an initiative of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) to recognize transportation agencies who are leading…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Male and Female Bees Have Different Reactions to Pesticide Exposure.
Beyond Pesticides Research is beginning to explain how systemic neonicotinoid insecticides affect often overlooked species of ground nesting bees. While much of the current…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Key Observation Was That Orchards Fare Best When They Have a Diverse Community of Bees Flying in From Natural Habitats.
By: Jan Suszkiw A bee on an apple flower…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Plant Diseases, Pests Ruining Crops, In Some Cases Up To 40% – Just Like Bees!
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pests and diseases are taking a substantial bite out of the world’s five major food crops — in some cases,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Fish and Bees “Talk” with Help from Robot Translators.
Jef Akst One-day-old honey bees gather around a heat-emitting robot (left) while zebrafish swim with a robot in a donut-shaped aquarium. When the bee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Can Help Monitor Pollution In Cities.
University Of British Columbia Honey from urban bees can tell us how clean a city is and help pinpoint the sources of environmental pollutants…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Discovering the Critical Role of the Honey Bee Gut Microbiome in Health and Defense Against Parasites.
Image: Image of a queen honey bee and colony. Photo courtesy of Richard Fell. Credit: Richard Fell, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech Researchers from…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Integrity Task Force Forms to Ensure Highest Quality Across All Honey Products.
Industry Group is Working on Multiple Fronts to Protect Honey Purity March 12, 2019 – Representatives from the entire U.S. honey industry have formed a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – World’s Largest Bee, Missing for 38 Years, Found in Indonesia
As long as an adult thumb, with jaws like a stag beetle and four times larger than a honey bee, Wallace’s giant bee is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Research Demonstrates a Highly Sensitive Approach that Will Improve Pesticide Evaluation BEFORE it Gets Released.
British scientists are urgently calling for stricter regulations on pesticides after finding that they are affecting genes in bumblebees. Research led by Queen Mary…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – “There is a Protein in Royal Jelly that Causes Bee Stem Cells to Renew Themselves, So Queen Bees are Bigger and Contain More Cells Than Worker Bees”
Inside a hive, all females are the same when they are larval bees. Then, one female is selected as the queen bee, and she…
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