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 – BIP Tech Transfer Teams Offer Hive Inspections, Collect Data and Then Make Recommendations on How to Maintain Healthy Colonies.
By: Lisa Renner As the world faces a declining bee population, California almond growers say they are doing their best to promote bee health….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Canola Farmers and Beekeepers Have a Vested Interest in Cooperating and Protecting Bees as Much as Possible.
Bees love canola and canola loves bees. That’s why canola farmers and beekeepers have a vested interest in cooperating and protecting bees as much…
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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…
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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…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UND and Australian Company Partner to Improve Crop Yields with Better Pollination
Bee Innovative, University sign pact to enhance autonomous capability in complex honey bee environments. Australian technology startup Bee Innovative and the University of North…
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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…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Make Sure the Workers are Fed, and They’ll Take Care of the Queen.
Researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois used specially developed 3D-printed plastic honey combs that mimic…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sunflower Pollen Seems to Cause Real Problems for Nosema Ceranae. That’s Good.
Alan Harman Honey bees fed a diet of sunflower pollen show dramatically lower rates of infection by a specific pathogen. (Photo: Jonathan Giacomini, NC…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Revered as a Humanitarian and Scientist, Warwick Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas
Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan, In the Scientist Brazilian entomologist Warwick Estevam Kerr died on September 15 in São Paulo at age 96. Kerr leaves behind…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pesticides Used in Crop Protection Have a Significant Negative Impact on the Learning and Memory Abilities of Bees.
British Ecological Society. Materials provided by British Ecological Society. Original written by Sabrina Weiss. Credit: Harry Siviter, Royal Holloway, University of London PhD student…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bipartisan Bill Delays Hours of Service and ELD Enforcement for Reform.
Wyatt Bechtel – Drovers Two U.S. Senators proposed a bipartisan bill that would allow for reform of the hours of service and Electronic Logging…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Varroa Mites, Pesticides, Viruses, Pollination, Honey – a Beekeeper’s Life
Laura Reiley, Tampa Bay Times Rolling Stone Photo FORT MEADE — Jim Doan pats the bees gently with the flat of his…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A New App Listens to The Problems of Bees. Matching Honey Bee Noises to Their Ailments.
Editor’s Note: We here at Bee Culture have been reading The Economist for decades, and have found it to be, in our opinion, the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Familiar Hover Flies May Be Transporting Honey Bee Diseases From Flower To Flower.
Bee diseases have been detected in hover flies for the first time. The brightly-colored flies may be picking up bee viruses as they forage…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Study Finds Parallels Between Unresponsive Honey Bees And Human Autism.
Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds. Credit: Julie McMahon – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Honey bees that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Think Of Honey Bees As ‘Livestock,’ Not Wildlife, Argue Experts.
University of Cambridge These are Commercial Honeybee Hives in the Teide National Park, Tenerife, Spain. Credit: Alfredo Valido The ‘die-off’ events occurring in honey…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – War Dance of the Honey Bee.
By: Karl Gruber | February 1, 2018 , The Scientist Magazine The paper A. Fujiwara et al., “First report on the emergency dance of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Nonprofits, Industry, Universities Join Together in Recommendations to Keep Honey Bees Safe during Corn Planting.
The Corn Dust Research Consortium (CRDC) announced recommendations based on over three years of targeted research designed to keep honey bees safe during corn…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Where There’s Lead In The Environment, There’s Lead In Honey Bees. And That’s Not Good.
Alan Harman Researchers have used bees to monitor pollution for the first time in Australia and have found significant lead levels in the…
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