CATCH THE BUZZ – How Bees Live with Bacteria, and Bees Finding Food
University of Würzburg IMAGE: A solitary bee leaves an artificial nest. The individual breeding chambers are separated and each contains only one larva. This prevents…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – There’s a Direct Correlation Between Gut Bacterial Numbers in Honey Bees and the Overall Health of Hives.
Alan Harman Preliminary trials in Australia have shown there to be a direct correlation between gut bacterial numbers in honey bees and the overall…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ASU Scientists Discover Gut Bacteria In Bees Spread Antibiotic-Resistant Genes To Each Other.
Antibiotic use in farming and human health leads to bacteria acquiring resistance (indicated by a + sign in the illustration). Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Researchers ID What Each Bacterial Species Found In A Bee Gut Contributes To Bee Digestion.
The honey bee gut is colonized by specialized bacteria that help digest components of the floral pollen diet and produce molecules that likely…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 5-Chloroindole Was An Effective Antagonist, It’s Not Toxic To The Bee Larva, But It Inhibited P. Larvae Spore Germination And Bacterial Proliferation In Vitro.
By: Entomology Today American foulbrood is a bacterial disease afflicting honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. The Paenibacillus larvae bacterium germinates in the gut of a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Protein Produced By Honey Bees Could Inspire The First New Antibiotic In 30 Years.
Health officials are desperate for new antibiotics as dangerous bacterial strains strengthen their resistance against long-used drugs. Every year in the United States, 2…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey – Good to eat, good for your skin…just plain Good For You
People do not need to shell out big bucks for beauty products, especially since some of the best beauty products can already be found…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Additional Information On The Veterinary Feed Directive. This is From the Beef Industry, But Guess What…It’s The Same For Bees.
Michael D Apley, DVM, PhD Kansas State University To find the latest on this subject, or to find a vet near you (that’s registered…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UW-Stout Professor, students identify bacterium that may kill honey bees
A University of Wisconsin-Stout biology professor and his students may have made an important discovery in the effort to determine why honey bee hives…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – We knew this all along. Fresh pollen is better for honey bees than old pollen substitute. Now we have the numbers to prove it.
By Jan Suszkiw A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators have established a strong link between honey bee health and the effects…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Some fungicides, and even miticides, are harming honey bees.
A research team led by a Virginia Tech scientist Mark Williams says that some commonly used ag chemicals are damaging the bacteria communities in…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – How DNA and a Supercomputer Can Help Sustain Honey Bee Populations
New multi-locus metabarcoding approach for pollen analysis uncovers what plants bee species rely on To uncover what plants honey bees rely on, researchers from…
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