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Happy Holidays from the Bee Team. Meanwhile, WSU breeder queen colonies experiencing todays wintry wonderland #WSUentomology

Entomology student Adam Ware removes bees and brood from WSU research colonies following almond pollination in California. The bees are placed in 5-frame mating “nucleus” colonies, loaded on a truck and moved to an isolated mating yard location for queen production.

After being moved to an isolated site in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a queen cell is installed into each mating “nuc”. Virgin queens will emerge from the cells and mate in this location. Queen producer Jon Jacob supplied the cells from WSU breeding stock. WSU Entomology

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We are searching for an apiary manager to join the WSU Bee Program in Pullman, WA. Come join team. WSU CAHNRS WSU Entomology wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs…

Entomology graduate students Riley Reed and Adam Ware prepare to shake a swarm of honey bees from a branch into a hive. The swarm will be relocated to a university apiary. WSU Bee Research WSU Entomology

This week we are teaching students to graft queen cells (or physically move teeny tiny 1day old newly hatched babies or larvae into cups) so our hives can rear many same-aged & closely related "sister" queens for setting up research. It's is a handy skill.

Instructor Susan Cobey demonstrates a method to evaluate queen quality during the field portion of the 2022 WSU Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding Workshop. Participants are primarily beekeepers interested in producing queens selected for their own local conditions. #wsuentomology

Participants in the WSU Bee Breeding and Queen Rearing Workshop practice grafting (moving bee larvae from the combs in which they were laid into special cups). The “grafts” will be placed in a “ cell builder” beehive where each grafted larva will be raised as a new queen.

Congratulations to the participants of last week’s 2022 WSU bee breeding and queen rearing workshop. Great enthusiasm evident for the restart of in-person training. Using tools from the workshop, some folks intend to breed honey bees better adapted to their local conditions.

A swarm of honey bees form a flat mat on the ground at WSU’s Spillman Farm. An unusual configuration, given that swarms typically settle on a tree, fence post or overhang. A box placed next to the swarm will be populated as bees crawl through the entrance.

Congratulations to WSU Entomology Professor & WA Stormwater Center Director John Stark for his election as an ESA Fellow!

Headed to the JamborBee ⁦WSU Bee Research⁩ ⁦WSU Entomology⁩ to get set up! Come join the Washington State Beekeepers Association annual meeting that starts tomorrow Oct 5 in Othello, WA!

Honey bee scientists WSU Entomology are studying the impacts of fungi to help them fight off the affects of Varroa destructor mites, which have caused a huge amount of damage. Cool overview of WSU Bee Research work by Washington State Magazine. #SaveTheBees #GoCougs magazine.wsu.edu/2022/10/31/its…

WSU grad students and bee team members verifying queen acceptance in new colonies recently started from “package bees” in Pullman, WA. Each package contained a caged queen and around 12,000 worker bees. WSU Entomology WSU CAHNRS

Dr. Saumik Basu and beekeeping assistant Molly Quade place a bag of WSU-selected fungus into beehives near Moscow ID. This research will evaluate the ability of the fungus to control infestations of the honey bee parasitic mite, “Varroa destructor”. WSU CAHNRS WSU Entomology

Collecting drones from beehives belonging to queen producer Ladislav Bozelj in Dragovsek, Slovenia. This work is part of a honey bee germplasm collecting effort for the Carniolan honey bee, a subspecies adapted to cool winter conditions such as occurs in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr Brandon Hopkins collects semen from Carniolan honey bee drones. Most of the collected semen will be cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen and placed in the WSU Honey Bee Germplasm Repository for later breeding program use via instrumental insemination. WSU CAHNRS WSU Entomology