Bee News Revisited Archives

EFSA guidance on bees – waiting for approval

By Claudia Garrido / 17 February 2024

The reviewed EFSA guidance on bees is still not endorsed by the member states. However, the direction for risk assessment on bees is clear.

By Claudia Garrido / 26 November 2021

Bee viruses became a hot topic in the past years when talking about bee health. Especially DWV – as an

By Claudia Garrido / 14 February 2020

The finding that engineered bacteria could help against varroa and the Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) made a big buzz. These

By Claudia Garrido / 31 January 2020

The meaning of life, one of my professors at the university said, is to maintain yourself alive and to procreate.

By Claudia Garrido / 18 October 2019

Bee nutrition and parasites are getting quite some attention these days. Which I’m very happy about, as I prefer to

The EFSA bee guidance exists since 2013. From the very beginning, it has produced discussions, harsh criticism as well as

Managed bees, as we saw in the last post, can have a negative effect on wild bee populations. However, though

By Claudia Garrido / 4 February 2017

Honey bees like it sweet – they forage nectar and produce honey. But salt? It may seem strange at the

By Claudia Garrido / 9 December 2016

Honey bees originally nest in cavities in about 5 m height. In Tom Seeley’s book “Honeybee democracy” is plenty of

By Claudia Garrido / 12 February 2016

Last week Science published a study about the manmade dispersal of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV). This virus alone causes asymptomatic