Honey Bees

Catch The Buzz, HealthJuly 25, 2018

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…

Beekeeping, Catch The Buzz, PollinationJuly 14, 2018

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…

Beekeeping, Catch The BuzzJuly 2, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, HealthApril 10, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, HealthMarch 16, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, HealthMarch 12, 2018

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…

Beekeeping, Catch The BuzzFebruary 23, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, ResearchFebruary 20, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, HealthFebruary 7, 2018

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…

Catch The Buzz, HealthJanuary 29, 2018

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…

Beekeeping, Catch The Buzz, PollinationJanuary 25, 2018

CATCH THE BUZZ – Worldwide Importance of Honey Bees for Natural Habitats Honey Bees as World’s Key Pollinator of Non-Crop Plants – Maybe, Maybe Not. Read On….

Source Newsroom: University of California San Diego Credit: James Hung/UC San DiegoA honey bee pollinates a Carpobrotus edulis plant. The proportion of all floral…

Beekeeping, Catch The BuzzJanuary 9, 2018

CATCH THE BUZZ – New Jersey Department of Agriculture Moves to Severely Restrict Bees and Beekeeping. Who’s Next?

By: Mark Di Ionno – The Star-Ledger Janet Katz is the President of the New Jersey Beekeepers Association, and like most beekeepers, must protect her hives…

Catch The Buzz, ResearchJanuary 8, 2018

CATCH THE BUZZ – Heat Patterns Serve As Signatures For Flowers To Passing Bees.

Heat plays an important role in flower-pollinator interactions. According to new research, heat patterns serve as signatures for flowers, advertising their availability to passing…

Catch The Buzz, ResearchDecember 4, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – This Discovery Opens The Possibility Of Designing New Chemicals That Target Sodium Channels Of Pests But Spare Bees.

Researchers at Michigan State University’s entomology department have unlocked a key to maintain the insecticide’s effectiveness in eliminating pests without killing beneficial bugs, such…

Catch The Buzz, HealthNovember 26, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Are Dying. In Three Minutes, A UMD Student Can Tell You Why.

University of Maryland doctoral student Samuel Ramsey has conducted award-winning research on honey bees in Thailand. (Courtesy of John Consoli) By Noah Fortson Trekking through…

Beekeeping, Catch The Buzz, PollinationNovember 18, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – It Isn’t Easy For Honey Bees To Stick Their Heads Into Jar-Shaped Blueberry Flowers.

DENVER — Honeybees may be the world’s most famous pollinator, but a new study shows that blueberry blooms reduce the insects to improvisational klutzes. Not…

Catch The Buzz, HealthNovember 16, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – Researcher Reports Key Components Of Honey Bee Antiviral Defense.

Laura Brutscher, who earned her doctorate at MSU in July, had her dissertation research published in the journal Scientific Reports in the same month….

Biology, Catch The BuzzSeptember 15, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – New Study Reveals Flower Color, Fragrance Coordination

Joe Schwartz This is true for many of the 41 insect-pollinated plant species growing in a Phrygana scrubland habitat on the Greek island of…

Biology, Catch The BuzzSeptember 2, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – Regulation Of Honey Bee Development By Plant Micrornas Shows An Evolutionary Adaptation For Colony Success Through Partnership Between Two Species.

Bee larvae develop into workers, in part, because their diet of pollen and honey – beebread – is rich in plant regulatory molecules called…

Catch The Buzz, Health, ScienceJuly 16, 2017

CATCH THE BUZZ – I Visited A CSI Crime Lab, But For Bees

Lisa Cumming I recently had a chance to visit the National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) in the small town of Beaverlodge, Alberta, which is…

CATCH THE BUZZ – Pesticides Used in Crop Protection Have a Significant Negative Impact on the Learning and Memory Abilities of Bees.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Bipartisan Bill Delays Hours of Service and ELD Enforcement for Reform.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Varroa Mites, Pesticides, Viruses, Pollination, Honey – a Beekeeper’s Life

CATCH THE BUZZ – A New App Listens to The Problems of Bees. Matching Honey Bee Noises to Their Ailments.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Familiar Hover Flies May Be Transporting Honey Bee Diseases From Flower To Flower.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Study Finds Parallels Between Unresponsive Honey Bees And Human Autism.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Think Of Honey Bees As ‘Livestock,’ Not Wildlife, Argue Experts.

CATCH THE BUZZ – War Dance of the Honey Bee.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Nonprofits, Industry, Universities Join Together in Recommendations to Keep Honey Bees Safe during Corn Planting.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Where There’s Lead In The Environment, There’s Lead In Honey Bees. And That’s Not Good.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Worldwide Importance of Honey Bees for Natural Habitats Honey Bees as World’s Key Pollinator of Non-Crop Plants – Maybe, Maybe Not. Read On….

CATCH THE BUZZ – New Jersey Department of Agriculture Moves to Severely Restrict Bees and Beekeeping. Who’s Next?

CATCH THE BUZZ – Heat Patterns Serve As Signatures For Flowers To Passing Bees.

CATCH THE BUZZ – This Discovery Opens The Possibility Of Designing New Chemicals That Target Sodium Channels Of Pests But Spare Bees.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Are Dying. In Three Minutes, A UMD Student Can Tell You Why.

CATCH THE BUZZ – It Isn’t Easy For Honey Bees To Stick Their Heads Into Jar-Shaped Blueberry Flowers.

CATCH THE BUZZ – Researcher Reports Key Components Of Honey Bee Antiviral Defense.

CATCH THE BUZZ – New Study Reveals Flower Color, Fragrance Coordination

CATCH THE BUZZ – Regulation Of Honey Bee Development By Plant Micrornas Shows An Evolutionary Adaptation For Colony Success Through Partnership Between Two Species.

CATCH THE BUZZ – I Visited A CSI Crime Lab, But For Bees

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