Sentences with phrase «on bee health»

However, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology indicates that many of the pesticides commonly used to protect bees may actually damage bacterial communities in their guts, which can have severe effects on bee health.

The work represents just a step on the road to understanding neonicotinoids» real - world effects on bee health.

Neonicotinoids have been linked to negative effects on bee health, such as difficulty reproducing in honeybees (SN: 7/26/16, p 16).

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Since 1976, Blue Diamond has been funding research in more than 70 projects focused on the health of bees, pollination and colony health.

Darren Cox's personal enlightenment about the ways in which science can be subverted reached full bloom when the USDA mounted a series of workshops on the stressors affecting bee health.

«The USDA's own website, on the science of bee health, lists four stressors, including pesticides,» he says.

I expected Cox to open the top box on one of the «bee stacks,» to check on their health.

Scientists, meanwhile, are vigorously debating whether the studies on neonicotinoids and the health of honeybees and bumblebees, mostly conducted in laboratory settings, accurately reflect what is happening to bees in the field.

Monsanto - owned BeeLogics, a bee health company, is one of the collaborators in the partnership with USDA that issued the report on Thursday, which appeared to lay much of the blame for die - offs on the «varroa mite,» an Asian bee parasite first found in the United States in 1987.

The European Commission has proposed a 2 - year ban on certain pesticides in a bid to protect bee health.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

«Yes, we have pretty much transitioned from a discussion of CCD to a discussion of honey bee health,» says Christina Grozinger, a Pennsylvania State University entomologist and one of the organizers of the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, held at Penn State in Ahealth,» says Christina Grozinger, a Pennsylvania State University entomologist and one of the organizers of the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, held at Penn State in AHealth and Policy, held at Penn State in August.

Recent research in Europe and the USA has demonstrated that insecticides known as neonicotinoids have a substantial impact on honey bee health.

This is the first comprehensive study on impacts of migratory management on the health and oxidative stress of honey bees.

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Distinctly a 1970s phenomenon, as we fretted over the northward migration of killer bees and the health of our DDT - soaked bald eagles, the films usually boasted critters who turned on us bipeds after stewing too long in our toxic effluents, perhaps gaining bestial superpowers as a result.

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Greene's photographs challenge our irrational fears and misconceptions so that we may focus on the importance of bees to the health and survival of our environment.

The audio analysis system is said to employ machine learning so as to «get smarter over time,» and all of the data gathered by the devices will be open source and publicly available for study, with the aim of contributing to the global work being done on colony collapse disorder (CCD), pesticide exposure, and bee colony health.

The team behind Open Source Beehives is back with another beekeeping innovation, the BuzzBox, which is intended to not only inform beekeepers about the health of their hives, but to also contribute open data to researchers working on the decline of honey bee populations.

According to their report, «The results of this field - based study suggest the potential for pesticide induced changes to the honey bee gut microbiome, and thus warrant further investigation into whether chlorothalonil or other pesticide exposure can have biologically significant impacts on honey bee function, health, and survival.»

Prior to his postdoctoral position, Dr. Carter was at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he helped establish an interagency task force on improving the health of honey bees and other pollinators, planned the planting of the first pollinator garden on the south lawn of the White House, and also worked on President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

It's estimated, for instance, that building up natural habitats to effectively restore bee health globally would cost about $ 75 billion each year (that's less than 20 percent of what the world spends on soft drinks), saving the world an estimated $ 2 to $ 6.6 trillion annually in losses from deteriorating ecosystems.

• Spend more money: the bee researchers» current annual $ 7.4 million budget will be upped by $ 1 million for work on honey bee health.

Expanding on its efforts to save honey bee populations from extinction, the Obama administration's Pollinator Health Task Force now aims to create and maintain a 1,500 - mile wildlife corridor along Interstate 35 for Monarch butterflies migrating between Mexico and Minnesota.