The Iowa Honey Producers Association have announced the immediate availability of www.BeeLaws.org. This website helps Iowa residents learn their city’s ordinances related to beekeeping. It is believed to be the first searchable bee law website in the nation. Anyone curious about placing a bee hive can open the website, choose a city listed on the front page, read pertinent excerpts from …
(Courtesy of the National Honey Board) Hello 2016! Is there anything as beautiful as the start of a new year? So new and fresh, without a single blemish or “what if” attached to it. We all come into the new year with eyes full of wonder and hopes of all the things we wish to accomplish this year. Maybe it’s something as …
Courtesy of the National Honey Board Hello fellow honey-lovers! We hope that you had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends. With the closing of the recent holiday, we find ourselves at an interesting juncture in the holiday season, recovering from one large festivity just to move into the next. This time of year is known as the “Season of Giving,” …
By Jan Suszkiw November 19, 2015 Camelina is an herbaceous, yellow-flowering member of the mustard family whose oil-rich seed and cold tolerance has piqued the interest of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists for its potential as both a winter cover crop and biodiesel resource. Now, in the process of studying this plant, scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found that …
Kaira Wagoner, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Biology Department’s first doctoral student, has uncovered a chemical that could increase the odds of honey bee survival by helping them better combat the parasites within their hives. Wagoner has been working in Prof. Olav Rueppell’s lab under his mentorship since August 2011, when she began working on her Ph.D. in the newly …
New multi-locus metabarcoding approach for pollen analysis uncovers what plants bee species rely on Botanical Society of America To uncover what plants honey bees rely on, researchers from The Ohio State University are using the latest DNA sequencing technology and a supercomputer. They spent months collecting pollen from beehives and have developed a multi-locus metabarcoding approach to identify which plants, and what …
Nature is publishing the article in which the UPV/EHU lecturers Alfonso Alday and the late Lydia Zapata participated University of the Basque Country Neolithic vessels from Atxoste (Alava, Spain). Credit: A. Alday (UPV/EHU) The current loss of bee populations as a result of pesticides, viruses and parasites has increased awareness about their economic importance and essential role in farming societies. Our relationship with …
On November 12, 2015, EPA issued a cancellation order for all previously registered Sulfoxaflor products. This cancellation order is in response to the September 10, 2015, order of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finding that EPA improperly approved the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act registrations of the pesticide sulfoxaflor; the court’s order became effective on November 12. Pursuant to …