Tuesday 13 August 2024

Combining Pest Treatments May Be Key to Helping Honey Bees Survive Winter

A beekeeper wearing protective gear holds a frame full of honey bees and honeycomb, lifted from an open blue hive box. The frame is densely covered with bees. Bees are flying around the beekeeper and the hive. The scene is outdoors, with green grass in the background.

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Winters can be tough on managed honey bee colonies, with beekeepers in the United States reporting that one-third of their colonies die each winter. A study by Penn State University researchers has found that using not one but multiple pest treatments may help bees make it to spring. [Read more]

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