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By: Jessica Louque Honey Daze This was going to be the year. We were determined to harvest honey this year. I hadn’t had a…
Read MoreBy: Jessica Louque Honey Daze This was going to be the year. We were determined to harvest honey this year. I hadn’t had a…
Read MoreBy: Ross Conrad The relationship is a complicated one… The honey bee has an interesting relationship with fungi. Some fungi are harmful to bees…
Read MoreBy: James Tew Robbing or swarming? A couple of things that I feel I need to say. Odds and Ends – Hot bees and…
Read MoreLiquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Liquid nitrogen is very cold – between -320° and -346°F. And it’s not cheap, but Katie Lee told me you…
Read MoreMDA Continues to Lower Yield Estimates for Corn, Soybeans, and Spring Wheat “Rains are currently pushing across the west central Midwest; however, a drier…
Read MoreTROPHALLAXIS Trophallactic interactions can frequently be seen non-randomly between all members of the colony. Trophallaxis, the transfer of food by mouth from one individual to another,…
Read MoreMinerals And The Bees’ Needs Rachael Bonoan and colleagues at Tufts University have been studying the impacts of salt and other minerals on honey…
Read MoreTEHRAN, Jul. 04 (MNA) – Deputy agriculture minister said over 80,000 tons of honey are produced annually in Iran two percent of which…
Read MoreLisa Cumming I recently had a chance to visit the National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) in the small town of Beaverlodge, Alberta, which is…
Read MoreFor the study – funded by Hort Innovation and Plant & Food Research and the Australian Macadamia Society (AMS) – researchers conducted a trial…
Read MoreBy: Adam Voiland An Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal. Image Credit: CDC/James Gathany. Though mosquitoes are small, they…
Read MoreResearchers from RMIT University, Monash University, the University of Melbourne and Deakin University have discovered a new mechanism in the bug’s brain for processing…
Read MoreBy Erica Peterson Predicting the imminent arrival of an insect species that could devastate Kentucky’s sweet sorghum crops, the state Department of Agriculture has…
Read MoreBy: Robin McConchie Bees in the United States and Europe are starting to evolve through natural selection to survive a mite that has been…
Read MoreA worker honeybee fitted with a RFID on its back so researchers can record when it enters and leaves the colony. (York University photo…
Read MoreBy Adam Russell, Texas A&M ALOGA, OKLAHOMA – Donning his beekeeper suit, Charles Touchstone, of Arapaho, Oklahoma, stepped a few feet inside a buzzing…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, June 23, 2017 – Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today authorized emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands in Montana, North Dakota…
Read MoreBy David Nutt A small mite is causing big trouble for New York’s honeybee population and putting in peril the fruit and vegetable crops that…
Read MoreHolly Whetstone, Layne Cameron A team of Michigan State University entomologists will use a nearly $1 million U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of…
Read MoreBECAUSE ALL THE POLLINATOR BUZZES DIDN’T FIT INTO POLLINATOR WEEK Mary Phillips On June, 22, 2017, the National Wildlife Federation’s Collin O’Mara joined…
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