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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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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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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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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Installing A Queen
by Jim Thompson What seems to be a rather routine procedure may not be. At various times a beekeeper finds that the queen needs…
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Beeyard Thoughts
Tanging a swarm? Maybe or maybe not. Double screens for winter nuc survival. Are you sure? Drumming Bees. Was it ever effective? Queen excluders…
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Colony Development Part III
Queens by Larry Connor Before obtaining the first bee colony, the future sustainable apiculturist must master key aspects of bee biology. Here we look…
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COLONY DEVELOPMENT PART I
Importance of Knowing Developmental Rates by Larry Connor Before obtaining the first bee colony, the future sustainable apiculturist must master key aspects of bee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – It Takes More than Royal Jelly To Make A Queen
Nurse bees feed larvae destined to be workers not only royal jelly, which queen-destined larvae are fed, but also beebread, or processed pollen (seen…
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Splits & Varroa: More Colonies, Fewer Mites, New Queens – What Could Be Better?
William Hesbach At a recent beekeeping meeting the question was asked if a split can be made to help control Varroa. The answer is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Basics Of Honey Bee Health
By Keri Collins Lewis MSU Ag Communications STARKVILLE, Miss. “My top three reasons for honey bee colony death are Varroa mites, Varroa mites and…
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by Ed Colby The friendly UPS associate in Indonesia solemnly informed me, “I have launched an investigation into the disappearance of your queen bees!…
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Introducing Her Royal Higness
by Ross Conrad There are at least two instances where a beekeeper may need to introduce a new queen to a colony. When a…
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