First vaccine for insects could mean more protection for bee hives
Beekeepers could soon have a new option for protecting hives from a devastating disease: the first vaccine for insects.
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Honey of a defense? UNC-Greensboro developing spray to help bees fight mites
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Greensboro are working on a new tool to combat one of the major causes of honeybee declines: the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and the numerous harmful pathogens it vectors.
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Bee Downtown completing a ‘highway of honeybees’ across Triangle – longest such corridor in US
On Monday, Bee Downtown will officially connect more than 60 miles of honeybee-pollinated space, setting up three beehives on MetLIfe’s Cary campus. We’ve got the details – and a map of the honey bee corridor.
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$500,000 ‘Feed a Bee’ grant program from Bayer now funds projects across 39 states
With a round of 20 new grants, the $500,000 “Feed a Bee” grant program from Bayer has now reached 39 states.
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NC Biotech Center funding helped honeybee researcher land $1M USDA grant
Olav Rueppell, Ph.D., says his research on saving honeybee hives at the University of North Carolina Greensboro clearly illustrates how relatively small but timely grant funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center had a big impact.
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