2024 Service to America Medal–aka the Sammy’s Award
Big news! Drs. Judy Chen and Jay Evans of the USDA ARS Beltsville Bee Research Lab are honorees of the 2024 Service to America…
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Genetics of Honey Bees in AR
Researchers Trace Ancestry of Arkansas Honey Bees to Original ‘Colonists’ First honeybees brought to America were western European dark bee subspecies. By Fred Miller…
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Honeycomb
By: Peter Borst How Do They Do This So Well? Historical Notes Since ancient times, people have marveled at the society and the architecture…
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Listening To The Bees About Diversity
By: Mark Winston Bees teach us that leaders best serve society when they promote core ideals that unite rather than divide. These are tough times…
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A Closer Look
QUALITY, QUANTITY AND DIVERSITY ARE ALL IMPORTANT The observed increase in foraging distances with decreasing landscape diversity suggests that honey bees compensated for lower…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Replacement Queens, A True Cinderella Story Honey bee colonies and beekeepers alike can’t afford to take queen rearing lightly. During supercedure events, swarm preparation,…
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Glyphosate
By Ross Conrad Safe For Bees And Beekeepers? As a beekeeper I used to make the mistake of blaming farmers and chemical researchers for…
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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison MUSHROOM BODIES IN THE BEE BRAIN Mushroom bodies (MB) are brain centers required for specific learning tasks. Mushroom bodies or corpora…
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Found In Translation
By Jay Evans Snowbirds, Snow, and Supplements Shed Light On Overwintering Success It is too late for most of us to plan…
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Found in Translation
By Jay Evans Love In The Time Of Chasmogasmy: How And When Do Bees Improve Soybean Fields? As I wrote two months ago, the…
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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison HONEY BEES AND MAGNETIC FIELDS Is there a pull? Over the years scientists have been interested in determining the effect of…
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A Closer Look: Piping, Tooting, Quacking
By: Clarence Collison It can be pretty noisy in a beehive. Just listen carefully. Acoustical signals have been found to be used for communication…
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Found In Translation
By: Jay Evans Bees, Beenomes, And Benefits From Science Close your eyes and imagine a realm where you are seeing features of biology for…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison SWARMING BEHAVIOR Reproduction by colony fission, or swarming, is a spectacular example of a behavior that requires the simultaneous coordination of…
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Sleep Deprivation
By: Antonia DeGroot & Gard Otis It may come as a surprise to learn that honey bees sleep, and that sleep is a fundamental…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison A TEMPORAL POLYETHISM The regulation of age-based division of labor among workers demands a high level of colony integration. Honey bee…
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The Hive Mind
By: Peter Borst When I first got interested in honey bees, I had this feeling there was something unknown waiting to be discovered in…
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What Do Bees See?
By: Peter Borst When I first thought of writing about honey bee vision, the painted hive fronts of Slovenia seemed a good place to…
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A Closer Look
PHEROMONE REGULATION By Clarence Collison Primer pheromones affect the physiological state of the individual resulting in longterm changes in behavior which may take days…
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A Closer Look- FORAGING BEHAVIOR
By: Clarence Collison Individual foraging decisions during nectar collection and colony regulation of nectar intake are distinctly different from pollen foraging. Honey bees collect…
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