The EU funded project BeeGuards (https://beeguards.eu) seeks volunteer beekeepers studying varroa control with brood breaks or citizen scientists investigating pollinator floral resource overlap! ➔ Apply here!
Date & Time: Mar 20, 2025 13:00 CET Description: This webinar will cover the biology, distribution, prevention and control options for this exotic mite, Tropilaelaps spp. Experts from across the globe will speak to this pest and be available for a Q&A session of 1 hour at the end of the webinar. ➔ Register here
This week, from 25-29 November 2024, the First International Training Lab of the European Centers of Vocational Excellence in Apiculture is being hosted at the University of Federico II in Naples. The program brings together experts, educators, agricultural professionals, and beekeepers from across Europe to explore solutions for the challenges faced by modern beekeeping, with…
The theme of the 2nd IBRA Art competition is ‘Youth and beekeeping’. We have received 16 eligible photos of very young beekeepers, and is now the time for all of us to vote. Winning photos will be used for the covers of JAR and Bee World journals. In order for you to vote, please open…
Dear COLOSS colleagues, Do you know of any initiatives or measures that restrict beekeeping? If so, we would be very pleased if you could answer our survey: ➔ https://forms.gle/fY8wfLd4SDX1mJhY6 We, the Swiss Bee Research Center and French Bee institute, ITSAP, would like to identify strategies to decrease conflicts between managed and wild bee proponents. Many…
Article about the South Korea research trip to the Korea Apicultural Agriculture Cooperative (KAAC) amongst others by Prof. Vicky Soroker and Norman Carreck in February 2024 published in the Beekeepers Quarterly. https://beekeepers.peacockmagazines.com Download full article as PDF!
Dear COLOSS colleagues, It is a pleasure to invite you all to the 3rd International Event on bee health towards sustainable apiculture that will be online on 17th May 2024 from 10 to 16 CEST Agenda available at this link. The link to access the webinar will be available on this page the day before…
See you in Basel! Next month the ETAIN consortium is travelling to Basel, to the Swiss TPH headquarters, to celebrate the second general assembly of the project. The meeting will serve to reflect on the project’s advancements so far. The ETAIN consortium will prepare the launch of the EMF Monitoring app, with common lines, strategies…
On behalf of the Organizing & Scientific Committee of the 10th Symposium EURAAC Athens 2024, which will be held in the Agricultural University campus, in Athens Greece from 02 to 06 September 2024, we are pleased to invite you to attend the Symposium and to deliver an opening presentation in the session “XX”. I am…
Date: March 26th 2024, 15:00 CET Registration*: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88478992358?pwd=OWRXSW5vWkwrVHoydENOWEZ6a2dzZz09 *Participation in the webinar is free for everyone who registers using the link above. When it comes to the invasive species in beekeeping, and if we exclude the Varroa mite which has invaded Europe long time ago, our mind focuses to small hive beetle, the yellow leg…