The Research Buzz (Archive)
Welcome to The Research Buzz, a column summarizing some of the newest and coolest in honey bee research.
Each Research Buzz highlights five new studies. These articles are also published in the Mass Bee newsletter.
- Spring 2021: Pesticides in pollen, best management practices for beekeepers, screened bottom boards, and a honey bee textbook for veterinarians.
Spring 2021 full column - Fall 2020: Crop pollination, propolis-friendly hives, feral mites, disease tramission at flowers, and a newly observed bumble bee behavio.
Fall 2020 full column - Summer 2020: Apiary design, screened bottom boards, bee dialects, and simple backyard bee habitat improvements.
Summer 2020 full column - Spring 2020: Pesticide results from the 2018 MA Hobbyist Honey Bee Health Survey (Full research report)
- Winter 2019: "Mite bombs", viral transmission, contaminated wax foundation, varroa-neonic interactions and a new pesticide guide.
Winter 2019 full column - Fall 2019: NASS Survey suspension, neonic-treated soybean seeds, Varroa transmission via flowers, amino acids and sexual competition
Fall 2019 full column - Summer 2019: Neonics and in-hive behavior, hive spacing, protein supplements, almond pollination, and entomophagy.
Summer 2019 full column
- Spring 2019: Varroa biology, queen quality, a new honey bee manual, and the lunar eclipse.
Spring 2019 full column
- Deep dive: Varroa mites feed on fat body tissue not hemolymph (Ramsey et al. 2019)
- Deep dive: Comparing Northern and Southern Queens (Döke et al. 2018)
- Deep dive: Can brood pattern tell us about queen quality? (Lee et al. 2019)
