by Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC-Davis Dept. of Entomology & Nematology
DAVIS--Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellowjackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis scientists has discovered in ground-breaking research to be published Oct. 21 in the journal Current Biology.
Using state-of-the-art genome sequencing and bioinformatics, the …
The National Honey Board recently convened an elite group of chefs and mixologists at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in San Antonio for Honey Summit 2013—Food & Beverage, an event designed to inspire cross-menu innovation using honey.
A dozen expert culinarians participated in the two-and-a-half-day immersion event that featured honey varietal tastings, food and beverage demonstrations, panel discussions and hands-on …
(Courtesy of Joli Winer, The Bee Buzzer, Oct. 2013,
Newsletter of the Northeast Kansas Beekeepers' Association)
Take any late honey off & get it extracted. Remove all queen excluders. Bees could move above the excluder into a feeder or super and leave the queen below.
Finish any mite treatments--be sure to remove any remains of medications.
Take an inventory at your bee yards to …
Study by UC Riverside-led team shows pollutant metal kills
honey bees or delays their development
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Traditionally, honey bee research has focused on environmental stressors such as pesticides, pathogens and diseases. Now a research team led by entomologists at the University of California, Riverside has published a study that focuses on an anthropogenic pollutant: selenium (Se).
The researchers found that the …
Most of us think of honey bees as having a bucolic, pastoral existence—flying from flower to flower to collect the nectar they then turn into honey. But while they're capable of defending themselves with their painful stings, honey bees live in a world filled with danger in which predators seize them from the sky and wait to ambush them on …
Exposure to common air pollutants found in diesel exhaust pollution can affect the ability of honey bees to recognize floral odors, new University of Southampton research shows.
Honey bees use floral odors to help locate, identify and recognize the flowers from which they forage.
The Southampton team, led by Dr. Tracey Newman and Professor Guy Poppy, found that diesel exhaust fumes change …
Normal Business Operations to Continue Under Chapter 11 Process
ONSTED, Mich. (Oct. 1, 2013) – Groeb Farms, Inc., a major U.S. honey packer, has announced that it has reached an agreement with its lender, a private equity firm, to recapitalize the company and invest additional capital into the business. The transaction will be consummated through a plan of reorganization (the “Plan”) …
U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois
CHICAGO — A California woman was sentenced Sept. 30 to three years in federal prison for illegally transporting hundreds of container loads of Chinese-origin honey through the Chicago area after it entered the country illegally. The defendant, HUNG YI LIN, also known as “Katy Lin,” 42, of Temple City, Calif., …