Beekeepers with colonies along the eastern coastline of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are being warned of the potential for flooding and wind damage from Hurricane Matthew. An estimate of regular in-state colonies as well as migratory beekeeper colonies brought to the Southeast for overwintering has been put at over 250,000 by some estimates. Many of these colonies …
MIAMI – On Aug. 12, Import Specialists from the Miami based Agriculture & Prepared Products Center of Excellence & Expertise (APP Center) in collaboration with U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Officers and Special Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Chicago, seized around 42 tons of illegally imported Chinese honey. This represents the …
When bumblebees experience rewarding stimuli, they enter a positive emotional state similar to optimism in humans, a new study reveals. The results suggest that insects may have emotion-like states, a research area that has been the subject of much inquiry in recent years. Here, Clint Perry and colleagues turned their attention to the “happiness” of bumblebees, trying to gauge whether …
Courtesy of AccuWeather Global Weather Center - September 28, 2016 - AccuWeather reports it will feel like an extended winter for those living from the northern Plains to the eastern U.S., as cold and snowy conditions stretch into spring 2017. Meanwhile, drier and milder weather will focus on the majority of the southern half of the nation. The Southeast may mark the exception as …
(From Project Apis M.) Honey bee colony losses in the United States in 2015-2016 worsened compared with last year. United States honey production in 2015 from producers with five or more colonies fell 12 percent from 2014. As many crops which rely on honey bees for pollination are expanding, the need for a sustainable beekeeping industry is more clear than ever. …
From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency First published: 20 September 2016 Part of: Animal and plant health and United Kingdom There has been a confirmed sighting of the Asian hornet in the Tetbury area of Gloucestershire, UK. The National Bee Unit has confirmed a sighting of the Asian hornet in the Tetbury area of Gloucestershire – …
Some compounds commonly regarded as “bee-safe” could be a major contributor to honey bee colony losses in North America Honey bee colonies in the United States have been dying at high rates for over a decade, and agricultural pesticides—including fungicides, herbicides and insecticides—are often implicated as major culprits. Until now, most scientific studies have looked at pesticides one at a time, …
John J. Bartholdi III, Sunil Nakrani, Thomas D. Seeley, Craig A. Tovey, and John Hagood Vande Vate will receive the Golden Goose Award on Sept. 22 for their study of honey bee foraging behavior and the development of the “Honey Bee Algorithm” to allocate shared web servers to internet traffic. The original honey bee research, funded by the National Science …