Bumblebee Research
Bumblebee research sparks rapid industry change By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle A Cornell study that revealed commercial eastern common bumblebee hives pose a threat to…
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COLOSS Nutrition Survey
COLOSS Nutrition Task Force Survey Honey bee colony nutrition survey This questionnaire is produced by the Nutrition Task force of COLOSS that gathers worldwide…
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Honey Bees Inspiring Robotics
How Honey Bees Inspire Advanced Robotics And AI Macquarie University Bees make decisions better and faster than we do, for the things that matter…
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Preliminary Treatment for Viruses
Successful treatment for deadly honey bee viruses found in US study US-based researchers have successfully treated honey bees with a novel immune system booster…
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San Diego Bees
Plants Pollinated by Honey Bees Produce Lower-quality Offspring Dominant in the San Diego region, foreign honey bees visit nearly twice as many flowers as…
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Monarchs’ White Spots
Monarchs’ White Spots Aid Migration By Eurasia Review If you’ve ever wondered how the monarch butterfly got its spots, University of Georgia researchers may have just…
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Study Hall
United States Honey Bee Colony Losses 2022-2023: Preliminary Results from the Bee Informed Partnership By: Nathalie Steinhauer, Mikayla Wilson, Dan Aurell, Selina Bruckner, Geoffrey…
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Robotic Bee Waggle Dance
BYU students build robotic bee to communicate through ‘waggle dance’ BY LADD EGAN PROVO, Utah – Students at Brigham Young University have been hard at work…
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Honey Bee Aggression Genes
Honey bee colony aggression linked to gene regulatory networks by Shelby Lawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Collective behaviors are present across many different animal…
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U.S. Honey Bee Losses
This chart shows the estimated share of bee keepers’ colonies lost in the United States from 2016-17 to 2022-23. We are here to…
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Preliminary BIP Results
Links: Previous years: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ BIP website: https://beeinformed.org/ Bee Lab at Auburn University: https://linktr.ee/auburnbees Bee Lab at University of Maryland: https://www.umdbeelab.com/ Survey question previews: https://beeinformed.org/citizen-science/loss-and-management-survey/ To read the rest of…
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Pollen as a Nutrient Source
Use of bee pollen as a nutrient source By Bhavana Kunkalikar Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the Nutrients journal, researchers evaluated using…
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Where Did Honey Bees Evolve?
Multiple mitogenomes indicate Things Fall Apart with Out of Africa or Asia hypotheses for the phylogeographic evolution of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) Steven M….
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Asian Honey Bee Hornets
Honey bee populations may collapse due to ineffective defenses. by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of…
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Honey Bee Brood Disease Diagnostics
Links: Brendon.Mott@usda.gov
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Honey Bees Have Emotions
Can Bees Feel Emotions? New Study Suggests They Are Sentient By Madeleine Muzdakis Bees are critical to American agriculture. They pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops…
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Honey Bee Virus in Mosquitoes
Honey Bee Virus Found in Mosquitoes ENTOMOLOGY TODAY By Andrew Porterfield Black queen cell virus is a serious problem for beekeepers. It infects developing…
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New Honey Bee Facility in Canada
New Honey Bee Research Centre creating a buzz at Univ. of Guelph Set to break ground this summer, the new Honey Bee Research Centre…
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Urban Microbiome and Bees
Environment: Honey bees provide a snapshot of city landscape and health by BioMed Central Urban honey bees could be used to gain insight into the…
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Fingerprinting Honey
EMU researchers are chemically “fingerprinting” different varieties of honey The team is working towards picking up chemical cues in honey to tell the botanical…
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