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Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceMarch 21, 2019

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…

Beekeeping, Business, Catch The Buzz, Health, Life, Politics, ScienceMarch 13, 2019

CATCH 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…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceMarch 12, 2019

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…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceMarch 11, 2019

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…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceMarch 7, 2019

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…

Beekeeping, Catch The Buzz, Health, Management, ScienceMarch 6, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – A Mobile Phone Microscope Is Good Enough To Find Nosema Spores In The Field.

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at Barnard College, have developed a mobile-phone microscope that…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceMarch 5, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Urban Gardens and Allotments Provide Especially Good Habitat for Pollinator Communities.

By: Mike Gaworecki (Photo: The River and The Wall) Many pollinator insect species like bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are on the decline, due in…

Beekeeping, Catch The Buzz, Pollination, Research, ScienceMarch 4, 2019

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…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceMarch 1, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Earning a Bee’s Wings. In Hives, Graduating to Forager a Requirement for Social Membership it is a Classic Coming-of-Age Story, in Many Ways.

By: Talia Ogliore Graduate student Cassondra Vernier conducted lab experiments and observed hours of bee interactions at the entrance to the hive. She is…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceFebruary 28, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Immense Numbers of Introduced Honey Bees Overwhelm Native Pollinators for Access to Pollen and Nectar, at Least in San Diego

Non-native honey bees have established robust feral populations in San Diego, such as the pictured swarm. Honey bees currently make up 75 percent of…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceFebruary 27, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Healthy Hives 2020 gets a $325,000 boost from Bayer Bee Care and Project Apis M., for Honey Bee Health Research.

Research Triangle Park, N.C. Bayer and Project Apis m. today announced an additional $325,000 funding for Healthy Hives 2020, an initiative dedicated to improving…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceFebruary 26, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Discover Bees Can Solve Basic Mathematical Problems.

By: Benjamin Pineros Addition, subtraction and other basic mathematical concepts have featured in human civilization for thousands of years. Now scientists have discovered that honey…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceFebruary 14, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – To Solve Pollinator Health Crisis, State Governments are Key.

University of Missouri-Columbia Insect pollinators are vital to the existence of almost 90 percent of the world’s flowering plants, including a large portion of…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceFebruary 8, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Students Create Probiotic to Help Honeybees Fight Deadly Fungus.

By: Andrew Lyle – University of Alberta Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of University of Alberta students are hoping to market a probiotic…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceFebruary 5, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Ohio Researchers and Industry Leaders Working to Stop Insecticide Use During Bloom.

Misti Crane Ohio State News It’s about time for the annual mass migration of honey bees to California, and new research is helping lower…

Biology, Catch The Buzz, ScienceJanuary 15, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Research Offers Insights of Honey Bee Chromosomes

Kathy Keatley Garvey Newly published research by a team of Germany-based honey bee geneticists, collaborating with Robert Page Jr. of Arizona State University/UC Davis,…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceJanuary 14, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Raw Honey is Driving Net Growth within the Honey and Syrup Industry Due to the Popularity of the Paleo Diet.

Nicole Potenza Denis – Specialty Food Magazine Makers and Consumers are Coming Down From Their Sugar Highs and Keeping a Closer Eye on What…

2019, Biology, JAN 2019, ScienceJanuary 14, 2019

Honeycomb

By: Peter Borst How Do They Do This So Well? Historical Notes Since ancient times, people have marveled at the society and the architecture…

2019, Biology, JAN 2019, ScienceJanuary 8, 2019

Listening To The Bees About Diversity

By: Mark Winston Bees teach us that leaders best serve society when they promote core ideals that unite rather than divide. These are tough times…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceJanuary 7, 2019

CATCH THE BUZZ – Yet Another Contribution by Honey Bees to the Fountain of Youth

By: Kenny Walter – Digital Reporter – @RandDMagazine Kevin Wang holds a flask of cells that have been engineered to produce the Regina protein,…

CATCH THE BUZZ – Discovering the Critical Role of the Honey Bee Gut Microbiome in Health and Defense Against Parasites.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Integrity Task Force Forms to Ensure Highest Quality Across All Honey Products.

CATCH THE BUZZ – World’s Largest Bee, Missing for 38 Years, Found in Indonesia

CATCH THE BUZZ – New Research Demonstrates a Highly Sensitive Approach that Will Improve Pesticide Evaluation BEFORE it Gets Released.

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”

CATCH THE BUZZ – A Mobile Phone Microscope Is Good Enough To Find Nosema Spores In The Field.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Urban Gardens and Allotments Provide Especially Good Habitat for Pollinator Communities.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Microscopic Nanocrystals, the Size of Pollen Grains, Used to Track the Path of Pollen from Flower to Flower.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Earning a Bee’s Wings. In Hives, Graduating to Forager a Requirement for Social Membership it is a Classic Coming-of-Age Story, in Many Ways.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Immense Numbers of Introduced Honey Bees Overwhelm Native Pollinators for Access to Pollen and Nectar, at Least in San Diego

CATCH THE BUZZ – Healthy Hives 2020 gets a $325,000 boost from Bayer Bee Care and Project Apis M., for Honey Bee Health Research.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Discover Bees Can Solve Basic Mathematical Problems.

CATCH THE BUZZ – To Solve Pollinator Health Crisis, State Governments are Key.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Students Create Probiotic to Help Honeybees Fight Deadly Fungus.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Ohio Researchers and Industry Leaders Working to Stop Insecticide Use During Bloom.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Research Offers Insights of Honey Bee Chromosomes

CATCH THE BUZZ – Raw Honey is Driving Net Growth within the Honey and Syrup Industry Due to the Popularity of the Paleo Diet.

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Listening To The Bees About Diversity

CATCH THE BUZZ – Yet Another Contribution by Honey Bees to the Fountain of Youth

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