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Beekeeping Instructional Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University of Florida, USA Beekeeping Instructional Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University of Florida, USAYou are here:HomeJobsBeekeeping Instructional Assistant Professor/Lecturer at…Nov42024JobsThis is a 12-month, non-tenure-accruing, Instructional Assistant Professor/Lecturer track faculty position that will be 1...

Advertisement Brief for I.B.R.A. Treasurer Role Advertisement Brief for I.B.R.A. Treasurer RoleYou are here:HomeJobsAdvertisement Brief for I.B.R.A. Treasurer…Oct292024JobsPost Title: Treasurer Location: Remote working Working Pattern: Part-time 8 hours per week Responsible to: Board of Trustees/Directors Remuneration: (as indicated by Indeed a...

Beyond the urgency: pesticide Emergency Authorisations’ exposure, toxicity, and risk for humans, bees, and the environment Beyond the urgency: pesticide Emergency Authorisations’ exposure, toxicity, and risk for humans, bees, and the environmentYou are here:HomeArticlesBeyond the urgency: pesticide Emergency…Oct222024ArticlesThe global challenge to increase agricultural production goes along with the need of decreas...

Application of a robust MALDI mass spectrometry approach for bee pollen investigation Application of a robust MALDI mass spectrometry approach for bee pollen investigationYou are here:HomeArticlesApplication of a robust MALDI…Oct152024ArticlesPollen collected by pollinators can be used as a marker of the foraging behavior as well as indicate the botanical species present in each en...

Composition and Quality of Honey Bee Feed: The Methodology and Monitoring of Candy Boards Composition and Quality of Honey Bee Feed: The Methodology and Monitoring of Candy BoardsYou are here:HomeArticlesComposition and Quality of Honey…Oct82024ArticlesThe nutritional status of a honey bee colony is recognized as a key factor in ensuring a healthy hive. A deficient flow of nectar and p...

📢 Aktuální číslo polského časopisu Pszczelarstwo píše o COLOSS monitoringu v Česku! 🇨🇿🐝

Jsme hrdí, že náš monitoring funguje už více než 10 let a že o nás píší i v zahraničí. Děkujeme všem, kteří nám každé jaro posílají vyplněné dotazníky. Vaše pomoc je pro nás neocenitelná a bez vás by to nebylo možné! 🙏❤️

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A Protocol for Monitoring Populations of Free-Living Western Honey Bees in Temperate Regions A Protocol for Monitoring Populations of Free-Living Western Honey Bees in Temperate RegionsYou are here:HomeArticlesA Protocol for Monitoring Populations…Sep262024ArticlesDespite their ecological significance, wild Apis mellifera populations remain critically understudied. Addressing this researc...

Phytochemical profiles of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their larvae differ from the composition of their pollen diet Phytochemical profiles of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and their larvae differ from the composition of their pollen dietYou are here:HomeArticlesPhytochemical profiles of honey bees…Sep252024ArticlesPollen and nectar consumed by honey bees contain plantsecondary metabolites (PSMs) with vital roles ...

🐝We are excited to reveal the next keynote speaker, Simone Tosi, at the EurBee 10 Congress Tallinn! 🐝

👉 Simone Tosi is a biologist interested in the health and behaviour of social and solitary bees. Investigating the multifaceted impacts of anthropic and environmental drivers, his team integrates traditional and novel laboratory, field, and in silico approaches using bees as model organisms.

He explores how multiple drivers, mainly pesticides and malnutrition, shape bee behaviours such as flight, navigation, locomotion, thermoregulation, reproduction, and phototaxis. Through biomonitoring surveys using bees, bioindicators of environmental health, Simone’s team and collaborators further investigate environmental contamination and its impact on pollinators.

Simone’s work further aims at refining Environmental Risk Assessments to better assist our society protect bees and the environment. Towards this goal, he has served as scientist expert for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and other EU institutions.

His academic journey has led him to study bees in South Africa (University of Pretoria), USA (University of California San Diego), and France (ANSES Animal Health Laboratory). As Associate Professor at the University of Turin (Italy), he now coordinates the Bee Health and Behaviour Laboratory (www.beelab.unito.it) and teaches “Beekeeping”, “Biodiversity and management of pollinators”, and “Biomonitoring and biodiversity management”.🐝

Stay tuned, as we'll be announcing more keynote speakers soon❗️

COLOSS was well represented at EurBee (10th Congress of Apidology) in Tallinn, Estonia during this week.

Many members and also task force and core project chairs were present.

Amonst others Lotta Fabricius Kristiansen co-chair of B-RAP and Prof. Dr. Peter Neumann, president of COLOSS, held their presentations.

An approach to protected designation of origin (PDO) for bee honey utilizing the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) An approach to protected designation of origin (PDO) for bee honey utilizing the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)You are here:HomeArticlesAn approach to protected designation…Sep192024ArticlesA methodology designed to monitor vegetation changes over multiple years in the vicinity of a...

"The 1st volume of Bee World journal, 2024, is finally out with [...] one of the Open Access article is titled "COLOSS B-RAP Expert Evaluation of Beekeeping Advice From ChatGPT, Part 1". In this article, members of the COLOSS core project B-RAP gathered in Olomouc, Czechia, in February 2024 during a workshop where they tested the ability of ChatGPT3.5 to deal with some common questions in beekeeping."

Bee World Volume 101, Issue 1 of Bee World

A new BEEBOOK chapter has been released:
Standard use of Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques in honey bee research 2.0:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00218839.2024.2357977?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Conference Registration dealine extended until 30th september!

Register now: https://coloss.org/event/5612/

Impacts for honey bees
French research suggests honey bee colony losses by yellow-legged Asian hornets (YLH) are serious, averaging up to 30 per cent.
YLH are generalist predators, their diet includes beneficial pollinators as protein for their larvae. They hawk honey bees in front of hives and pick off returning foragers. Research estimates that bees account for up to two thirds of YLHs’ diet in urban areas.

The two main impacts on honey bees are:
Direct predation: bees dismembered and taken to feed YLH larvae as protein.
Stress causes colonies not to forage and build-up, then failing overwinter.

Beekeepers will learn to manage and defend their colonies in many ways and will work with other agencies in this battle.

Photo: Steve Tomlinson

Spread in Europe
Yellow-legged Asian hornets (YLH) fly and hitchhike. From the initial entry point in
France, YLH has spread progressively. Dispersal often occurs when foundress (mated) queens migrate each spring or jump locations via human transport. Fourteen European
countries have now had sightings. YLHs’ rate of increase and spread can be rapid. YLH can get to the UK by flying across the Channel assisted by a tail wind as well as via freight transport, ferries, cars, caravans etc.



Image: courtesy of https://frelonasiatique.mnhn.fr/home/