RAISED IN A BEE FAMILY Some kids are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, others are born with a hive tool in their hand. Mine are definitely the latter. We recently culled queen cells and left one out on our porch. Nate, my 4-year-old, found it and opened the queen cell to discover …
Read MoreIn recent years, the notion of an insect apocalypse has become a hot topic in the conservation science community and has captured the public’s attention. Scientists who warn that this catastrophe is unfolding assert that arthropods – a large category of invertebrates that includes insects – are rapidly declining, perhaps signaling a general collapse of …
Read MoreProgram only one in country with such a wide spectrum of training Scientists have long known two facts about the world’s bee population: Pollinating bees are vital contributors to healthy crops and a thriving ecosystem, and many bee species are under threat of extinction from pollution, disease and other factors. The University of Georgia College …
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BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, AUGUST 6, 2020–The first complete genome of the Asian giant hornet has been released by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. ARS has made the genome available to the research community in AgDataCommons and the National Center for Biotechnology Information, even before publishing the results in a scientific journal to make …
Read MoreAutumn Reads: Book reviews Carol Hrusovszky and Eugene Makovec – 1085 The Gold Rush and the Honey Bee Peter L Borst – 1097 Darwin, Design, and the Honey Bee, Part 2: The morality of the hive Piers J. Hale – 1103 Questing for the Wonder Bee, Part 2: The Hilo bee project M.E.A. McNeil – …
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David Thomas pauses with his hives in the Hawaiian coffee in Ka’u. Although coffee benefits from pollination with earlier, larger crops, bees aren’t typically rented — possibly because of the abundance of natural pollinators and managed bees. For Thomas, the richness of tropical forage on the island makes up for it. Read about David’s part …
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Q European Foulbrood I have read your excellent guide on the treatment and diagnosis of European Foulbrood at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1272. In the past I have tried: Mite treatments Shook swarm Culling older frames (but not all frames) Feeding sugar syrup/pollen patties Requeening Last year, requeening a hive was very effective; this year’s results are disappointing. I …
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In this series of queen introduction articles, the candy release method counts down the time to release the queen. With my queen cages mounted on the glass of the observation hives in the bee house, I can even see the bees tunneling their way through the candy to the queen. Figure 1 shows a closeup …
Read MoreNeonicotinoid insecticides: When there’s risk to bees, when there are economic benefits to users, and when there are viable replacements Neonicotinoid insecticides. If you’re like many people who we interact with, you just read those two words and already have an opinion. Perhaps such a strong opinion that there’s little point to us writing more. …
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As scientific thinkers, we need to re-examine our beliefs constantly and question what we “know” to be true. As we learn, our cumulative knowledge increases, often giving us a better perspective. For example, I recently had a wake-up call that forced me to re-evaluate the idea of the windshield effect. The windshield effect is a …
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