January 2024

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From Pollination To Plate, Bees And Beekeeping Play An Irreplaceable Role In Food Production The bustling aisles of a grocery store offer rows upon rows of food to choose from. In this space, the freedom of choice appears endless, though insight into where and how exactly a product originates may not be as readily available. Peering beyond the confines of…

Hazard/Risk Assessment Trisiloxane Surfactants Negatively Affect Reproductive Behaviors and Enhance Viral Replication in Honey Bees Julia D. Fine, Diana L. Cox-Foster, Kyle J. Moor, Ruiwen Chen, Arian Avalos https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5771 Abstract Trisiloxane surfactants are often applied in formulated adjuvant products to blooming crops, including almonds, exposing the managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) used for pollination of these crops and persisting in colony matrices, such as…

Metabolic pathway discovered USDA Agricultural Research Service Honey bees survive winters in cold climates by forming a thermoregulating cluster around the honey stored in the colony. Recent research showed overwintering colony losses are linked to a specific metabolic pathway connected to how bees apportion their energy resources.  Contributed Agricultural Research Service scientists and their Chinese colleagues have recently identified a…

By: Dvykaliuk Roman Fig. 1. A 3D model of CPI (Intelligent Collector of Propolis) (Breyer, 2016)Notes: A – case for stacking the collector; B – Intelligent Collector of Propolis; C – insert board for closing the hole in the case Propolis is a sticky resinous substance collected from the buds, leaves and stems of wild plants and processed by bees,…