Innovative Effort Will Showcase the Real-World Impacts of Multiple Best Management Practices for Bee Health
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The Honey Bee Health Coalition, a diverse group of more than 40 organizations working to support pollinator health, announced today the launch of an innovative and ground-breaking demonstration project aimed at showcasing the real-world impacts a series of best management practices have on honey bees …
Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France in 2004
University of Warwick
Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France in 2004
Asian hornet could colonize UK and threaten bee populations in two decades unless action is taken, according to research by the Universities …
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University graduate student Oldooz Pooyanfar has
developed a monitoring system to study what more than 20,000 honeybees
housed in hives in a Cloverdale field are 'saying' to each other --
looking for clues about their health. Credit: SFU
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Simon Fraser University graduate student Oldooz Pooyanfar is monitoring what more than 20,000 honeybees …
Medhat Nasr, PhD.
Provincial Apiculturist
Crop Diversification Centre North
17507 Fort Rd, NW
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5Y 6H3
Office Phone: 780-415-2314, Cell Phone: 780-554-1566
email: medhat.nasr@gov.ab.ca
On July 19, 2017, Alberta has established a quarantine area in the Peace River region where small hive beetle was detected in a beekeeping operation during an inspection. The pest has been linked to honey colonies that were imported from Ontario …
Bumble bees, like this one, are among the bee species most vulnerable to
increases in temperature. Photo: Elsa Youngsteadt. Click to enlarge.
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that common wild bee species decline as urban temperatures increase.
“We looked at 15 of the most common bee species in southeastern cities and – through fieldwork and labwork – found that …
If It Smells Like a Petunia or Shampoo, It Might Be a Pesticide
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Agricultural Research Service, USDA
A scent that petunias and snapdragons release to attract pollinators may be an environmentally friendly control for pests like the spotted wing drosophila fly (SWD) and the brown marmorated stink bug.
Zhang is also investigating whether low doses of methyl benzoate could control Varroa …
Biologist Lynn Adler at UMass Amherst has a $1 million USDA grant to study
the possible role of sunflower pollen in boosting bee health
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
AMHERST, Mass. - Biology professor Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in pollination and plant-insect interactions, recently received a three-year, $1 million grant from a special "pollinator health" program of …
By Julie Shapiro
Grabbing a meal on the go isn’t easy — and that’s true whether you’re a human or a bee.
Like us, honey bees face a wide variety of challenges every day. Finding nutritious, complete meals is increasingly becoming a problem for these industrious pollinators. The rapid and recent losses of pollinator habitat and forage across North America, driven in …
