The purpose of the workshop is to plan and coordinate our common activities in the field of breeding and conservation of honey bees. Ongoing activities include work on a popular version of BeeBook chapters for breeders and beekeepers, field experiments Read More …
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Best for bees to be stay at homes
Honey bees with roots in the local environment manage much better in the struggle for survival than imported honey bees from foreign environments. A world without bees would be a whole lot poorer – literally. In Denmark alone an Read More …
A review of methods used in some European countries for assessing the quality of honey bee queens through their physical characters and the performance of their colonies
A review of methods used in some European countries for assessing the quality of honey bee queens through their physical characters and the performance of their colonies [Abstract of the article to be published in Journal of Apicultural Research, Read More …
Journal of Apicultural Research (JAR) – GEI special Issue 2014
Honey bee genotypes and the environment (PRESS RELEASE) – Norman Carreck In recent years, much attention has been focused on the global problem of honey bee colony losses. Among the many explanations for these losses, variability in the genetic Read More …
COLOSS Training School on Queen Quality and Breeding
Thessaloniki, 2-4 March 2014 The COLOSS training school on Queen Quality and Bee Breeding will focus on: 1 – discussion on available methods on queen and drone fertility/ quality (as methods used to test the effects of pesticides Read More …
CONFERENCE ON APIS MELLIFERA MACEDONICA
The very first conference dedicated to conservation and improvement of the Macedonian honey bee subspecies (Apis mellifera macedonica) was held on 14th of December 2013 in Skopje, Macedonia. This event was organized by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Read More …