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This weekend, over 80 of the world’s leading honey bee scientists met in Kiev, Ukraine, and took the colony loss network COLOSS, originally an EU COST action that ended last year, and turned it into a new non-profit association. The aims of the new association are to: “improve the well-being of bees at a global level, with a primary focus on …
Scientists at the University of Warwick have modeled an outbreak of the bee infection American foulbrood in Jersey, using a technique which could be applied to other honeybee diseases such as European foulbrood and the Varroa parasite. As well as modeling how bee infections spread, the method also allows scientists to simulate various disease control interventions in order to measure their …