CATCH THE BUZZ – The Number of Honey Bee Colonies in Europe Fell By 16% in the Winter of 2017-18.
The survey of 25,363 beekeepers in 36 countries found that, out of 544,879 colonies being managed at the start of winter, 89124 were lost,…
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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…
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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…
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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 – We Need to Think not Just about Honey Bees but Wild Bumblebees and other Pollinators when Considering the Impact of Pesticides.
By: Cyrus Moulton WORCESTER – You may have heard about honeybee loss and colony collapse disorder. But a new study from Worcester Polytechnic Institute finds that wild…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists have shown that the drone can leave behind a virus that may infect the queen with the disease deformed wing virus. The Queen dies, the colony does too.
From Science Daily When a queen has sex with many different partners, it can increase her risk of infection with venereal disease. It can…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 2015/2016 winter losses in Canada.
Summary The Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA) coordinated the annual honey bee wintering loss report for 2015/16 in Canada. Harmonized questions based on…
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Postal Costs for Bees and Chickens to go up, maybe.
Last time we looked at getting packages, and I was going to take a long look at getting them started, but not unlike lots…
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Packages
It’s no secret. A million, maybe more colonies that were alive last Thanksgiving aren’t alive today, the beginning of May. What happened? Lots of…
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