You can now register to the first SOLATINA-COLOSS meeting to be held on September 22, 2021, 9-14h GMT-3 (Uruguay time) / 14-19h GMT+2 (Central European Time). On this occasion, prominent researchers will discuss two topics of global interest: Surviving honey bees to Varroa destructor Monitoring of colony losses. This will be an excellent opportunity to present and…
September 22, 2021 – “Joining forces across continents” Save the date! The first meeting of the two bee research societies, SOLATINA and COLOSS, will be held on 22nd September. There will be two roundtables on monitoring honeybee colony losses and on varroa-resistant honey bees with interesting participants to give insights from around the globe. More…
A Bee World article on the use of Citizen Scientist on varroa research. Citizen Science is the involvement of volunteers in science and CSI Varroa project is an initiative of COLOSS members, started at the end of 2018, aiming to gain more knowledge about varroa infestation thresholds above which beekeepers start observing economic damages, and…
Organisation/Entity: Primary Industries Job Category: Animal Care Education And/Or Training Environmental Job Location: Central & North Coasts – Newcastle & Hunter Valley / Newcastle, Hunter & Region Job Reference Number: 494727 Work Type: Full-Time Total Remuneration Package: Professional Officer Grade 1/4 Closing Date: 18/07/2021 – 11:55 PM Excellent opportunity to develop, coordinate and grow the…
In red clover seed production, low seed yield is limiting the commercial exploitation of tetraploid red clover. To explore if pollination is the limiting factor for the seed yield in tetraploid red clover, we investigated pollinator behaviour and plant reproductive success in diploid (2x) cultivar ‘Rajah’ and tetraploid (4x) cultivar ‘Amos’ using honey bee and…
Abstract: Simone Tos, James C. Nieh, Annely Brandt, Monica Colli, Julie Fourrier, Herve Giffard, Javier Hernández-López, Valeria Malagnini, Geoffrey R. Williams, Noa Simon-Delso The assessment of pesticide risks to insect pollinators have typically focused on short-term, lethal impacts. The environmental ramifications of many of the world’s most commonly employed pesticides, such as those exhibiting systemic…
Many different pollinators often visit the same flower, as seen in this image where a buff-tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris), a red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) and a small sweat bee (Lasioglossum sp.) are sharing a plume thistle Cirsium rivulare flower. On pages 623-636, Willem Proesmans and colleagues discuss how sharing of flowers in this way is a potential…
Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in Apiculture Research The Apiculture and Pollination lab at the University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, Canada) is seeking applicants interested in honey bee research to join our team in January or May 2022. Funding is available for an MSc and a postdoctoral position in the Department of Biological Sciences. The…
On behalf of the Directive Committee of SOLATINA, we would like to invite COLOSS members to participate in the webinar series entitled “Horizons in bee research”. The conferences will be given by invited scientists, experts on different topics and will talk about the latest and most important results in their areas of research on managed and wild…
Abstract The One Health approach acknowledges that human health is firmly linked to animal and environmental health. It involves using animals such as bees and other pollinators as sentinels for environmental contamination or biological indicators. Beekeepers noticed intoxications of apiaries located in the vicinity of sheep and cattle farms, which led to the suspicion of…