2025 ABRC Proceedings
Part 1 https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.5.25.1 The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) is an organization consisting of professors, state apiarists, scientists and students who all study…
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Nano Colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas
Zachary S. Lamas, Serhat Solmaz, Cory Stevens, Jason Brag Eugene V. Ryabov, Shayne Madella, Miguel Corona, Jay D. Evans ABSTRACT by Dr Zachary Lamas Rearing honey bees in the laboratory has been met with numerous roadblocks….
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NUTRITIONAL STRESS and DISEASE
Jerry Hayes With the Scary Losses in honey bee colonies being reported and not knowing the exact cause I was shared a paper from…
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Beekeepers: We Hear Your Concerns
Project Apis m. Colony Loss Survey 2025 As beekeepers prepare for almond pollination and reports of losses mount, PAm has been asked by researchers and…
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Quick Colony Loss Survey (Update)
We are gathering confidential information on recent hive losses. This is not an official survey but an attempt to help Dr. Jay Evans, Bee…
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2024 ABRC Proceedings
Part 2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.4.24.2 Pesticides and Acaricides Control of Varroa destructor with Lithium Chloride: Efficacy and Side Effects Rein, C1; Rosenkranz, P1; Traynor, K1…
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2024 ABRC Proceedings
Part 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.4.24.1 The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) hosted its annual meeting, the American Bee Research Conference (ABRC), in New Orleans,…
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Where Bees Originated
Bees Originated in Western Gondwana before Breakup of Africa and South America, Study Suggests by News Staff Bees are the most significant pollinators of flowering…
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Study Hall
United States Honey Bee Colony Losses 2022-2023: Preliminary Results from the Bee Informed Partnership By: Nathalie Steinhauer, Mikayla Wilson, Dan Aurell, Selina Bruckner, Geoffrey…
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Study Hall
From the Editor By: Jerry Hayes Lots of colony losses once again in 2023. There are three words I want you to remember: Varroa,…
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.23 The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) hosted its annual meeting, the American Bee Research Conference (ABRC), in Jacksonville, Florida on January 5th…
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The Reliability of Science – Part 1
The Reliability of Science – Part 1 By: Ross Conrad We have all come to rely on science. It is responsible for most of…
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U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2021
Released March 18, 2022, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplementary by Kim Flottum United States Honey…
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Thermal Efficiency
By : Derek Mitchell Honey bees collect flower nectar to make honey, but that is only the beginning. It can be shown that they…
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SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING
By : Meghan Milbrath I used to keep a small flock of sheep, and I would go through a lot of hay. One day…
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Imagining The Unimaginable – A World Where Honey Bees Thrive
By : Ross Conrad In the September 2018 issue of Bee Culture we explored what a world in which honey bees and pollinators are…
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Creating A Beekeeper Meeting
By : Ann Harman Well, you did it! You volunteered to be Meeting Chairman. Now what? It all depends on whether your club is…
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COLOSS
By : Malcolm Sanford Takes On The Small Hive Beetle The new lab wasted little time getting on the world’s honey bee research and extension…
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The Colony That Would Not Die
By : James E. Tew “I can hear you!” Many years ago, I had what was to be a “typical surgical procedure.” It went…
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The Risky Business Of Pesticides
By : Johnathan Lundgren There Are Consequences Of Pesticides That Stand Beyond Fence Lines It is easy for a farmer to justify applying a…
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