U.S. Honey Bee Losses
This chart shows the estimated share of bee keepers’ colonies lost in the United States from 2016-17 to 2022-23. We are here to…
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Bee aware that “Stop Varroa, Varroa Treatment” (through stopvarroa.com) does not have an EPA registration number and may not be a legitimate product approved…
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At Home Beekeeping Webinar
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Preliminary BIP Results
Links: Previous years: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ BIP website: https://beeinformed.org/ Bee Lab at Auburn University: https://linktr.ee/auburnbees Bee Lab at University of Maryland: https://www.umdbeelab.com/ Survey question previews: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ To read the rest of…
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Pollinator Week Tips
National Honey Board shares Pollinator Week Tips Source: National Honey Board By Brian Amick Honey bees are responsible for a third of the food we…
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Happy Pollinator Week!
Links: Honey Bee Health Coalition: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/ Farmers for Monarchs: https://farmersformonarchs.org/
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Ireland National Apiculture Program
Irelands Minister Hackett launches the National Apiculture Programme 2023 – 2027 From Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine The Minister of State in the…
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Pollen as a Nutrient Source
Use of bee pollen as a nutrient source By Bhavana Kunkalikar Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the Nutrients journal, researchers evaluated using…
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Northern Giant Hornet
Plant Protection Today – PPQ Travels to the Land of Giants Experts Collaborate, Initiate and Succeed—Times Four By Sharon Lucik The first northern giant…
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Australia’s Varroa Opportunity
Opinion: Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t by Scarlett Howard, Alexander Mikheyev,…
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Where Did Honey Bees Evolve?
Multiple mitogenomes indicate Things Fall Apart with Out of Africa or Asia hypotheses for the phylogeographic evolution of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Steven M….
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Varroa Resistance in NZ
Has the destructive varroa been building ‘home-grown’ pesticide resistance in NZ? Jamie Morton A destructive mite plaguing our beekeeping industry may have been building…
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Honey Bee Vaccine
Dalan Animal Health Ships First Honey Bee Vaccine to Tauzer Apiaries, Potentially Protecting 25 Million Bees. (BUSINESS WIRE)–Dalan Animal Health, Inc. (“Dalan”), the biotech company…
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Manuka Honey Trademark Loss
New Zealand loses fight with Australia over mānuka honey trademark Intellectual Property Office rules that New Zealand beekeepers’ attempt to stop Australian producers using…
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Pakistani Beekeeping with Help
Pakistani apiculture sector to thrive with Chinese know-how Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia As ironclad brothers, the Chinese government is happy to share the advanced…
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Royal Beekeeping
Princess of Wales tends her beehives in keeper’s suit The Princess keeps bees at Anmer Hall, on the Sandringham estate, where each batch of…
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UNESCO Women for Bees
UNESCO and Guerlain empower women and support biodiversity through Women for Bees programme under aegis of Angelina Jolie UNESCO and Guerlain have launched a…
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NC State Aids Beekeepers
N.C. State aids beekeepers with hive health By SIMON GONZALEZ N.C. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE In the winter of 2006, a distressing phenomenon began to…
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Bumblebee Production in Turkey
Bombus bees are produced in laboratories to be used in greenhouses With the ‘bombus bee’ project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, in…
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Crop Protection Myths Debunked
Crop Protection Myths Debunked Continued By Marcel Bruins Myth: Insect deaths are the result of pesticide use Fact: The decrease in insect populations must be studied…
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