The 4 P’s, Breeding and Bees
Breeding, Bees, and the 4 Ps Posted by Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications in Research and Science After suffering severe winter losses beginning in 2007, the…
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Queen Bees from Ukraine
Queen bees from Ukraine find a sweet new home in northwestern B.C. Winston Szeto · CBC News The owner of Rushing River Apiaries in Terrace, B.C.,…
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Australia’s Breeding Objectives
Australia 2022 Plan Bee Survey results: breeding objectives 2023 By Nadine Chapman And Elizabeth Frost Plan Bee, Australia’s national honey bee genetic improvement program conducts an…
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Refrigerated Queens
Indoor ‘queen banking’ could help beekeepers deal with changing climate Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make storing them more stable…
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Low Genetic Diversity in Bees
DNA Research Finds Low Genetic Diversity Among U.S. Honey Bees For media inquiries contact: Autumn Canaday, (202) 669-5480 U.S. agriculture owes many thanks to the…
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Guide to Queen Banking
To find the full guide go to: https://www.projectapism.org/uploads/1/0/5/7/105706229/queen_banking_guide_web_copy.pdf
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Genetics of Honey Bees
Genetic past, present, and future of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States of America Madeline H. CARPENTER, Brock A. HARPUR Department…
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Sick Queens have Shriveled Ovaries
Sick queen bees have shriveled ovaries, putting their colonies at risk by University of British Columbia Queen bees with viral infections have smaller ovaries…
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Honey Bee Appearance and Behavior
UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences UF/IFAS Communications 2343 Mowry Road, Bldg. 69 …
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Krispn Given, Purdue Univ.
Krispn Given, Apiculture Specialist, Purdue Univ. Department of Entomology Maintains Purdue’s honey bee breeding program, manages the honey bee lab, conducts experiments and…
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Breeding Honey Bees for Adaptation
ARS News Service A honey bee gathering pollen from a zinnia flower. Breeding Honey Bees for Adaptation to Regionalized Plants and Artificial Diets For…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Announcing an Incredible Beekeeping Job in Connecticut at a Very Unusual Location.
From the Editor: Before I moved to Ohio for this position, I lived for a time in Connecticut. My background was in horticulture, and…
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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison OXALIC ACID VARROA TREATMENTS Standard Oxalic Acid treatments, techniques and results. Oxalic Acid (OA) is a natural constituent of honey and…
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Finding DCA’s
By: Aude Sorel, Georges Martin, Emile Houle, Pierre Giovenazzo Where Do We Go? The CRSAD (Animal Science Research Center) is a non-profit corporation in Deschambault,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey bee teenagers speed up the aging process of their elders. Get rid of the kids and you’ll live longer, at least in a bee hive.
In honey bee colonies, a single queen is laying eggs from which thousands of worker bees are born. At a young age, workers care…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – How cryopreservation techniques might sustain a threatened species, and us in the process.
On a hot evening in June, Washington State University (WSU) entomologist Brandon Hopkins sat in front of a microscope in Orland, California, handling one…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – No single protein determines queen development in honeybees
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg In the first few days after they hatch, honey bee larvae feed on royal jelly secreted by the hypopharyngeal glands of adult…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists have shown that the drone can leave behind a virus that may infect the queen with the disease deformed wing virus. The Queen dies, the colony does too.
From Science Daily When a queen has sex with many different partners, it can increase her risk of infection with venereal disease. It can…
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Democracy
What we can learn from the bees. by-Tony Harris Honey bees perform the waggle dance on the comb within a nest to inform other…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Researchers identify how queen bees repress workers’ fertility
University of Otago Researchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago have discovered the molecular mechanism by which queen honeybees carefully control worker bees’ fertility….
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