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Apricots are the first trees to bloom, followed by cherries in the lush southern Okanagana Valley in BC. This spring has been cooler than normal in the Okanagan.
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Another view of the first blossoms of the fruit season in the lush Okanagan Valley in southern BC. There were lots of honeybees flying around pollinating the flowers.
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After months of hard work and dedication from our Penn State University team, all of the 875 kits for the National Honey Bee Disease Survey have been boxed and are ready to be shipped out to 33 states. We did encounter some problems in trying to obtain supplies and equipment for sample kits. Most were due to shipp...
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This is a large congregation of Colletes inaequalis, commonly known as the “Mining Bee.” This natural phenomenon occurs between March and July. The bee ranges from Nova Scotia, Canada south to Georgia, United States. This bee is known to be polylectic (diverse forage), but can specialize on pollinating apples. ...
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This is a large congregation of Colletes inaequalis, commonly known as the “Mining Bee.” This natural phenomenon occurs between March and July. The bee ranges from Nova Scotia, Canada south to Georgia, United States. This bee is known to be polylectic (diverse forage), but can specialize on pollinating apples. Coll...
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841 National Honey Bee Survey Kits built 34 to go... The deadline for us to have the kits done and ready to ship is the end of April. With some help from some friends it looks like they will be done by then! Rob has been stapling live bee boxes together for days. Jennie, Nishit, and Linda spent the first half of th...
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It's never a good sign when you see stacks of equipment and dirt clumps on top of bee hives in a holding yard. It usually means the bees have taken a turn for the worst. If you search the image you can see the stacks of dead colonies ready to be hauled out of the yard. I have snapshotted as many dead hives o...
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Sometime in early March 350 National Honey Bee Survey sampling kits were moved out of our living room and transported to the USDA Bee Research Lab in Beltsville, MD. As of now there are 500 unconstructed kits lying around ready to be manufactured. We have all of the components of the kits prepared for install...
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Obviously this is a Gigapan of our refrigerator. You might be thinking why someone would want to post a Gigapan of their refrigerator? Strange right? As with any image there is always a story to tell… Two days ago I purchased over 40 lbs. of powdered sugar and with the help of some co-workers we began mixing th...
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Field work is major part of what our research lab does here at Penn State University. I have been helping to conduct honey bee disease and pest surveys for four years under the supervision of Dennis vanEngelsdorp. Most of our field work is run in conjunction with the USDA Bee Research Lab in Beltsville, MD. A ma...
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