…it would be Professor Mandyam Srinivasan. Granted, I may be a little unique there but I have enjoyed many of his papers on honey bee neurophysiology. He is Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. His… Continue Reading →
I have two hobbies: beekeeping and building/flying multirotors or drones. There is rarely any overlap between the two but recently I have noticed a spate of YouTube videos with titles such as (click on the links!): Bees Attack Quadcopter Blades… Continue Reading →
It would be wonderful to identify pollen in honey and from pollen gathered by bees. You can do that with a 400x-1000x microscope for a couple of hundred dollars and some training in staining techniques. So when I heard about… Continue Reading →
“Scientists continue to hunt for the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD”. That statement presumes that there is a single cause and not a cascade of causes. It reflects the way we humans think – we naturally want to… Continue Reading →
I recently got an email from Frank Linton. Frank works at Mitre Corp and has been interested in hive monitoring for a long time. Last year, he organized the first workshop on hive monitoring at Eastern Apicultural Society’s annual conference… Continue Reading →
As if there were not enough pests that kills bees already, we can now add parasitic phorid fly to our list of worries. This fly, recently reported in PLoS, lays its eggs in the honey bee and this turns the… Continue Reading →
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