First study of real world conditions
for crop-pollinating honey bees
In a study of real-world conditions encountered by honey bees as they pollinate crops, researchers
gathered pollen from commercial beehives placed in farm fields in the Northeastern US. Here the
scientists take pollen samples from bees pollinating Maine blueberries. Credit: Michael Andree
COLLEGE PARK, MD - Commercial honey bees used to pollinate crops are exposed …
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Forthcoming research in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry analyzes the physiological effects of three separate pesticides on honey bee (Apis mellifera). An international research team - Drs. Stephan Caravalho, Luc Belzunces and colleagues from Universidade Federal de Lavras in Brazil and Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique in France - conclude that the absence of mortality …
Stricter controls over bumblebee imports to the UK are urgently required to prevent diseases spreading to native bumblebees and honeybees, scientists have warned. The call follows the discovery of parasites in over three-quarters of imported bumblebee colonies they tested. The study - the first of its kind in the UK - is published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
While …
San Francisco State University News Release
The Great Sunflower Project is moving beyond the backyard this summer
Professor of Biology Gretchen LeBuhn.
The popular project is encouraging its corps of more than 100,000 volunteers to observe bees and any other pollinators they see, on all kinds of plants and in all kinds of places. Participants can now report their bee counts from a …
New research by academics at The University of Nottingham (UK) has shown that exposure to a neonicotinoid insecticide causes changes to the genes of the honeybee.
The study, published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, supports the recent decision taken by the European Commission to temporarily ban three neonicotinoids amid concerns that they could be linked to bee deaths.
There is growing …
by RON PHIPPS
President, CPNA International Ltd.1
Co-Chairman,
Committee for the Promotion of Honey and Health
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The first-ever smartphone app about keeping healthy honeybees has been launched by Vita (Europe) Ltd, the world's largest dedicated bee health company. The app is free and gives beekeepers easy mobile access to information and photographs about honeybee disease identification and treatment.
The app, suitable for nearly all smartphones and tablet devices, can be downloaded free from www.healthybeeguide.com. It runs on …
June 17-23, 2013 is National Pollinator Week where honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, wasps, ants, moths, and some small mammals are celebrated for providing us with fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Yet, the celebration that often awaits bees, and other pollinators in this blooming season is a deadly concoction of pesticides, misapplied in violation of the EPA regulated label. Since March …