The Bee Health Update is a quarterly newsletter which provides updates of new content and activities of the Bee Health, eXtension.org community content at:
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Bee Health CoP Updates
Community fact sheet:
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Managed Pollinator CAP
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USDA-ARS Areawide Project to Improve Honey Bee Health
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Bee Informed Partnership
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Georgia Bee Letter, University of Georgia UGA newsletters
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Managed Pollinator CAP Updates
Three new updates from the Managed Pollinator CAP team add a great deal of understanding to pesticides and Nosema effects as it relates to the investigation centered around CCD.
- Jim Frazier, Chris Mullin, Maryann Frazier, and Sara Ashcraft present Pesticides and Their Involvement in Colony Collapse Disorder
- Marion Ellis and Bethany Teeters present Assessing the Risks of Honey Bee Exposure to Pesticides
- Zachary Huang presents Effects of Nosema on Honey Bee Behavior and Physiology
YouTube channel updates
- Jamie Ellis has released his latest episode in the ongoing University of Florida Bee Disease Video series; A Video Field Guide to Beekeeping. The topic for Episode 5 (in 2 parts) is European and American Foulbrood. Part one is below, see part 2 on our YouTube Channel.
- Michael Wilson and John Skinner video illustrated an existing FAQ by Greg Hunt titled: I have honey bees in a tree. Can I remove them and keep the bees?
Facebook fan page and the Bee Informed blog
In this quarter, our Facebook fan page has been streamlined to function better. Now you can 'like' our fan page to receive updates on your Facebook wall from the Beeinformed.org blog, eXtension.org Bee Health pages, and bee related news from Extension. Particularly active this quarter has been blog posts from field researchers with the Bee Informed Partnership. Recent topics include; queens, grafting, collecting hive data, pollen, feeding bees, and much much more. Karen Rennich, project manager for the Bee Informed Partnership, says about the blog, "The popular blog page at the website adds to the outreach by allowing beekeepers a view of the often unnoticed world of our project personnel including the Crop Protection Agents (the “Bee Team”) who are working in northern California." Fan page updates, including the blog, are now reachable through every eXtension.org Bee Health page on the sidebar where you can also 'like' the page. If you don't use Facebook, you can still receive blog updates through your email by subscribing on http://beeinformed.org/ (see right side bar of beeinformed.org) or by using an RSS feed reader.
Small Hive Beetles
- Jon Zawislak, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, has made a webpage explaining the facts on Managing Small Hive Beetles and the biology of this pesky pest of bees and beekeepers.
Bee Informed Partnership