Firestone, Colo., February 7, 2014 – The National Honey Board (NHB) announced that it has produced a new honey cookbook entitled Delicious Dishes and Tasty Treats: Honey Recipes for Every Occasion. Delicious Dishes and Tasty Treats is a seventy-four page, spiral bound cookbook that sits conveniently on any tabletop. This functional design is not only stylish, but the spiral binding …
Firestone, Colo., February 7, 2014 – The National Honey Board has approved funding for eight new research projects focusing on honey bee health. The Board’s Research Committee, with input from an independent panel of experts, selected the projects from 25 proposals received from researchers around the world. The total dollar commitment for the eight projects is $235,646. In addition, the …
Mexico is the fourth largest honey producer and fifth largest honey exporter in the world. A Smithsonian researcher and colleagues helped rural farmers in Mexico to quantify the genetically modified organism (GMO) soybean pollen in honey samples rejected for sale in Germany. Their results will appear Feb. 7 in the online journal, Scientific Reports. David Roubik, senior staff scientist at the …
Pathogens, pests, and socioeconomics play a key role, but are under researched NEW YORK – February 5, 2014 – EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced the results of research conducted on honey bee colony declines and the factors attributed to honey bee losses. In a paper published this week in the journal …
Firestone, Colo., February 4, 2014 – The National Honey Board is seeking persons interested in serving as a Board member or Alternate Board Member. The National Honey Board is composed of 10 members, including three first handlers; two importers; one importer-handler; one marketing cooperative; and three producers, and their respective alternates. This year the Board will fill three seats, one first handler, …
New research on the ability of honey bees to taste with claws on their forelegs reveals details on how this information is processed, according to a study published in the open-access journal, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Insects taste through sensilla, hair-like structures on the body that contain receptor nerve cells, each of which is sensitive to a particular substance. In many …