Yellow-Legged Ledger
The Department’s Plant Protection Division team has been hard at work – finding and swiftly eradicating 3 Yellow-legged hornet’s nests over a 24-hour period…
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NIFA Invests $5.7M in Pollinator Health
NIFA has announced more than $5.7 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Pollinator Health: Research and Application program. The program supports projects…
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Amitraz Resistance in French Varroa Mites: Not Related to a Single Mutation
The findings revealed regional occurrences of amitraz resistance, with a less severe decrease in treatment efficacy compared to other pesticides. Notably, the genetic analysis showed…
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Thriving hives: Research, education support backyard beekeepers
Contact: Meg Henderson STARKVILLE, Miss.—Backyard beekeepers play a critical role in maintaining a thriving pollinator population, and two Mississippi State scientists in the Department…
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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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The 2023-2024 US Beekeeping Survey is Live!
Hosted by: Apiary Inspectors of America and Auburn University Spring has sprung in most parts of the country, which means it’s time to take…
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Colony Loss Survey in Latin America
Scientific Reports First large-scale study reveals important losses of managed honey bee and stingless bee colonies in Latin America Fabrice Requier, Malena Sibaja Leyton,…
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Honey Bee Egg Sampling
Eggs sampling as an effective tool for identifying the incidence of viruses in honey bees involved in artificial queen rearing Laura Šimenc, Ivan Toplak,…
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The 2023-2024 US Beekeeping Survey is Live!
Hosted by: Apiary Inspectors of America and Auburn University Spring has sprung in most parts of the country, which means it’s time to take…
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Honey Bee Antiviral
Green biomanufacturing of edible antiviral therapeutics for managed pollinators Vincent A. Ricigliano, Alexander McMenamin, Allyson Martin Ewert, Daniela Adjaye, Michael Simone-Finstrom & Victor P. Rainey…
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Honey Helps Hay Fever
Honey is said to help with hay fever symptoms – here’s what the research says about this claim Samuel J. White Senior Lecturer in Genetic…
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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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BEEclipse
Links: https://broodminder.com/pages/beeclipse_2024 https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/
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Drivers of Pollinator Nutritional Resources
Examining spatial and temporal drivers of pollinator nutritional resources: evidence from five decades of honey bee colony productivity data We are here to share…
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Varroa Control Product Questionnaire
We have been asked to help a small start up company who wants to develop a new Varroa control product. They have been asked by potential…
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BeeHero Launches Pollination Research Stations
BeeHero Launches Pollination Research Stations to Give Growers and Stakeholders Real-Time Visibility Into Bees & Pollination The precision pollination provider’s new innovative data platform…
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Research at MSU – Disease Threatening Pollinators
Honeybee researcher at MSU works to understand disease threatening pollinators, specialty crops Contact: Meg Henderson Reprinted with Permission. We are here to share current happenings…
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PAm Colony Loss Survey
PAm Launches Survey for Beekeepers to Report Colony Loss To bring perspective to colony losses again this season, Project Apis m. is asking commercial beekeepers bringing their…
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Non-Native Probiotics
A longitudinal field study of commercial honey bees shows that non-native probiotics do not rescue antibiotic treatment and are generally not beneficial. We are…
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Test UBeeO, Help!
Public Effort, Beekeeper Scientists to Test UBeeO UBeeO is a new pheromone product developed to help queen producers select for hygienic behavior. A public…
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