Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that expands our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Credit: RMIT University Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that expands our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Building on their finding […]
February 4, 2019, John Innes Centre Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops. The technique called AgRenSeq or speed cloning has been developed by John Innes Centre researchers alongside colleagues in the United States and Australia to speed up […]
February 4, 2019 by Misti Crane, It’s about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their offspring will die while they’re visiting the West Coast. Each winter, professional beekeepers from around the nation stack hive upon hive on trucks destined for […]
BBVA Joint meeting with The Veterinary Invertebrate Society The reason for bringing the two societies together for the first time is to share our knowledge and identify common ground where the two organisations may benefit from each other. Prof Giles Budge from University of Newcastle has expertise in pathology, apiculture, molecular biology and crop protection. […]
This webinar by John Hill was provided via The Webinarvet in April 2018. The Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina, is a major predator of honeybees and other pollinators in the Far East including China, Malaysia and Japan . One queen was accidentally introduced to south west France in 2004. It has since rapidly spread all through […]
Lecture: Foulbrood: Past, Present and Future : Dr Giles Budge Followed by lectures from the lab run by Prof Geraldine Wright. The lab studies the behaviour, neurophysiology, and nutritional ecology of honeybees and bumblebees. Also studies how worker bees learn to identify floral traits like scent with nutrients they find in nectar & how bees […]
Date: Friday 23rd June 2017 Venue: Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN19QG Lecture: “Neonicotinoid Insecticides – are they harming bee colonies in the field?” Professor Francis Ratnieks Workshop: “Breeding and Using Hygienic Bees.” Timetable: 10.30-11.00 Meet for Coffee and Tea. 11.00 -11.30 BBVA AGM 11.30- 12.30 Neonicotinoid lecture 13.-30- […]
Please book asap to ensure a place as numbers are limited to 24. Lecture: Foulbrood: Past, Present and Future : Dr Giles Budge Followed by lectures from the lab run by Prof Geraldine Wright. The lab studies the behaviour, neurophysiology, and nutritional ecology of honeybees and bumblebees. Also studies how worker bees learn to identify […]
This webinar was provided via The Webinarvet on 9th November 2017 https://www.thewebinarvet.com/webinar/varroa-mite-the-honeybees-enemy The Varroa mite jumped species from the Eastern honeybee, Apis cerana, to the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera due to beekeepers bringing colonies close together. The new variant, Varroa destructor has spread round the world relentlessly except for Australia. The western honeybee has little […]
This webinar was held on 9th February 2017 https://www.thewebinarvet.com/webinar/the-remarkable-world-of-the-honey-bee The Remarkable World of the Honey Bee by John Hill describing the importance of honeybees as pollinators to the agricultural industry and some of the challenges they face. We will look at the natural history of the bee. Knowledge of its life cycle is fundamental to […]