The British Beekeepers’ Association, which represents more than 16,000 of the country’s amateur beekeepers, will give a £36,000 grant to support the work of a post graduate student over the next three years, in the prestigious Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at Sussex University.
The United Stated Ambassador to the Gambia Mr. Barry L. Wells on Wednesday 4th November presided over the signing ceremony for projects worth D1 million for thirteen beneficiary groups from all the seven regions in the country.
Honey bee research at UC Davis will benefit from a TwitCause social media campaign that started Thursday and ends Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Penn State research on honeybee health and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) will receive a boost as a result of a $100,000 gift from the E.B. O’Keeffe Foundation. The award will fund a competitive graduate fellowship that will pair a student’s area of study with a leading researcher already working on that problem. The search for candidates will be conducted nationally beginning this fall.
The U.S. House has approved the House-Senate Conference report on the 2010 agriculture appropriations bill.
One of the world’s biggest pesticide companies, Syngenta, has been accused of a “howling conflict of interest” for funding research into the disappearance of honeybees – a problem which some people claim it may have helped cause.
Scientists at Rothamsted Research and Warwick University have been awarded £1M by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in partnership with Syngenta, to research the decline of honeybees.
Learning how climate change may effect pollinators and research into developing fuels from plant materials such as forest waste are among the areas to get a boost from new Crown investments at the University of Guelph.
Damages caused by sticky-fingered bears dipping their paws into beehives won’t lighten the wallets of beekeepers nearly as much anymore.
The U.S. Congress is considering appropriating millions of dollars for honeybee research that could reap benefits, experts say.
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