Bee Health Fact Sheet Developed

Download the Bee Health Fact Sheet .pdf here.

Download the above high quality fact sheet about our community. Distribute this to beekeepers and others to generate traffic to our website, and increase our Google search rank. This fact sheet was developed at the University of Tennessee and by staff at eXtension.org

European Foulbrood: A New Feature Page

European Foulbrood: A Bacterial Disease Affecting Honey Bee Brood

A new honey bee disease and pest page on European Foulbrood has been developed by the University of Tennessee. This is the most comprehensive, original content developed for the eXtension.org, Bee Health project to date. It involves significant detail, with references and high quality, original images. It was designed to be a model for the rest of the honey bee disease and pest pages.

Reviewers Needed

The above page is already published, but we would like to establish a peer review system for this and future pages. We ask for three volunteers to review the EFB page and give brief or detailed feedback. To participate as a reviewer simply respond to Michael Wilson at mwilso14@utk.edu that you would like to participate. Michael will write back with instructions when three names are obtained. If more then three people respond, Michael will retain your names for future reviews.

2009 National eXtension.org Conference in St. Louis

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Michael Wilson and Paul Rhoads of the University of Tennessee will represent the Bee Health CoP at the national eXtension.org conference in St. Louis. This will give Bee Health exposure to many other communities and extension and research professionals through a poster display, Content Managed Board participation, and workshops. Pages from the Bee Health group will be featured with others, in a workshop titled, "Building Connections Between Research Communities and eXtension". This workshop is developed by an eXtension.org Content Management Board task force charged with better connecting researchers to eXtesnsion.org. This task force is lead by Rick Koelsch, Assistant Dean of Extension, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Michael Wilson of Bee Health is participating in this task force and the Content Managed Board of eXtension.org.

AAPA Position Statement on the Health of the US Honey Bee Industry

American Association of Professional Apicluturists: Position Statement on the Health of the US Honey Bee Industry

The American Association of Professional Apicluturists is now linked from the Bee Health homepage in the new menu redesign. Included, is a position paper on honey bee health and CCD the organization finalized in January 2009. This link represents the first step in and increased cooperation between Bee Health and the AAPA. Future work with the AAPA is focusing on video taping the 2010 ABRC research conference in Orlando FL for inclusion on the Bee Health website and a proposed YouTube channel for the Bee Health eXtension.org project.

Native Bees

Bee Health now contains two basic information articles pertaining to native bees. The first is Jim Cane's Logan BeeMail Shelter,

The Logan BeeMail Shelter

And the second is Emily McGlynn, Neal Williams, and Rachel Winfree's .pdf Native Bee Benefits: How to increase native bee pollination on your farm in several steps Permissions have been obtained to convert the .pdf into web-pages in coming weeks which will make the content more discoverable and integrated into the rest of the Bee Health site. Until, then visitors can access this richly illustrated publication from the Bee Health homepage.

Native Bee Benefits: .pdf download

Newsletter launched

This is the first issue of the Bee Health Update, which will be distributed to the CoP on a semi-regular basis.

Thank you for your time and attention, Michael Wilson University of Tennessee

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