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A new breed of #honey #bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic #Varroa mite, new research shows. The invasive mite has been the prime threat to honey bees since its initial expansion 50 years ago. 🐝 exeter.ac.uk/news/research/…

Today we published the results of a multiyear project to create truly Varroa-resistant honey bees. Artificial selection for collective behaviours can be a powerful tool when utilised against parasites and pathogens: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Science has run some nice coverage summarising our research findings. science.org/content/articl… Dept. of Agriculture University of Exeter Research at Exeter Uni of Exeter's ESI LSU

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 ESI and University of Exeter CEC Research Fellow Thomas O'Shea-Wheller gave a talk about breeding #varroa resistant #bees at the Falmouth & Exeter Students' Union BeeSoc last weekend. 📷Maria Giulia

In Calgary to talk about bees and ants at Alberta Beekeepers Commission and ULethbridge.

I'm looking forward to speaking about social insects and AI at Uni of Exeter's Institute for Data Science and AI's Data Science Week, hosted at the Uni of Exeter's ESI. Full details: bit.ly/3xmhyfv

I enjoyed being interviewed recently for the PolliNation podcast to discuss our research into Varroa-resistant bees. extension.oregonstate.edu/podcast/pollin… Oregon Bee Project Oregon State Extension Service

A fun weekend talking about hornets at @BrisBotanicGdn's Bee and Pollination Festival.

In collaboration with Fera, I recently secured a BDI-funded project to investigate the role of Varroa treatment adherence in honey bee health. We aim to examine the interface between acaricide treatment compliance and colony epidemiological outcomes at a national scale.

Thomas O'Shea-Wheller starts our featured ESI academic of the month series, with an #esiStateOftheArt talk on 30 January “Decoding the Superorganism: From Collective Cognition to #ArtificialIntelligence” exeter.ac.uk/esi/people/fea… More about his research this whole month. Watch this space!

I enjoyed speaking about hornets at the bumble bee working group last week, hosted by the University of Oxford and Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

I’m excited to see some initial results from our new project ‘Mapping Emergence’, in which we attempt to make art with ants. This work is co-funded by University of Exeter, Cornwall, Falmouth University, Uni of Exeter's ESI, and Arts and Culture University of Exeter.

I’m happy to announce the publication of our recent research in Communications Biology, utilising automated tracking to quantify the influence of Asian hornets on bumble bee colonies. nature.com/articles/s4200…

An interesting article by The Gaurdian summarising our bumble bee research. theguardian.com/environment/20… University of Exeter Research at Exeter Uni of Exeter's ESI

I’m pleased to announce our upcoming ‘Mapping Emergence’ exhibition at the Uni of Exeter's ESI, featuring ant art from Myrmica rubra, Lasius niger, and Formica rufa. Arts and Culture University of Exeter University of Exeter, Cornwall University of Exeter Falmouth University

A nice article by BBC Future covering our hornet research. bbc.com/future/article… University of Exeter Research at Exeter Uni of Exeter's ESI

Our recent research in Communications Biology outlines VespAI, an AI system that uses deep learning to detect Asian hornets. This aims to provide an automated monitoring capability to limit hornet incursions at the invasion front. nature.com/articles/s4200…

I’m happy to announce that a piece from our ant art project ‘Mapping Emergence’ has been awarded first place in the University of Exeter Images of Research competition. exeter.ac.uk/research/docto… Research at Exeter University of Exeter, Cornwall Arts and Culture University of Exeter

It was a pleasure to open our social insect art exhibition ‘Mapping Emergence’ at Grays Wharf Gallery last week, many thanks to all the humans and bees that turned up. artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/mapping-e… Arts and Culture University of Exeter University of Exeter University of Exeter, Cornwall Uni of Exeter's ESI University of Exeter CEC

Our recent publication quantifies the burden of Varroa treatment non-adherence on honey bee health at a national level. There is strong evidence that poor treatment adherence constitutes a major and underreported driver of large scale colony mortality. doi.org/10.1127/entomo…