January 2024

Whole Foods Market Unveils New Pollinator Health Policy for Fresh Produce and Floral Whole Foods Market announced a new pollinator policy for its Fresh Produce and Floral purchasing to support pollinators in recognition of the critical role they play in our food system and the environment. The company has long championed pollinator health through its commitment to organic agriculture, which…

Tri-County Beekeepers Association Inc. 45th Annual Spring Beekeeping Workshop March 1-2, 2024 – Wooster, Ohio “Maximizing Your Colonies Potential” The 45th Annual Spring Beekeeping Workshop in Wooster, Ohio on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2, 2024 is being planned. As in the past, it will be held at Fisher Auditorium and the Shisler Conference Center on Ohio Agricultural Research and Development…

Survival of NEBs inoculated with one of five treatments modeled using a Mixed Effects Cox Model. Dark lines represent mean treatment survival across replicates, while the shading surrounding the dark lines represent 95% CI. Different letters represent significant differences between treatments (coxme; α = 0.05). A tale of two parasites: Responses of honey bees infected with Nosema ceranae and Lotmaria passim Courtney I. MacInnis, Lien…

Urbanization found to increase seasonal differences in plant-pollinator networks by University of Göttingen Carpenter bees (Xylocopa sp) at Lablab in Bengaluru. Credit: Vikas S Rao Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering plants and agricultural crops, which are…

Bee Research and Extension Programs at University of California, Davis: The Early Days The UC Davis Series By: Elina L. Niño Laidlaw Bee Facility Named after the “father of honey bee genetics” Dr. Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., the Bee Research Facility is a part of a larger, as I like to refer to it, Bee Complex located only a few…