Bee Culture

https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rossquestions.mp3 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Answers to Some Common Bee Related Questions By: Ross Conrad Keep bees long enough and eventually you will run into a situation where you have more honey than you know what to do with. This is point…

https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/TewQuestions-and-Answers.mp3 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Some Bee Behavior Bullets A few of your questions with some suggested answers By: James E. Tew No shortage of questions There is no shortage of honey bee questions, but answers are not always easy to derive.…

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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,…

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…