Honey bees and their pollinating cousins are essential to human life. Without honey bees, we cannot grow a lot of the food we love. Honey bees have been around for millions of years, but they face many challenges in today’s environment, and their populations ebb and flow.
So how do bees fit into this podcast, Science in Your Shopping Cart? Well, if it wasn’t for honey bees and their pollinator friends, there would a lot less food to put in your shopping cart. Oh, and of course there’s honey, which you can put in your shopping cart, so there you go.
Click on the link below to get a step-by-step set of instructions to perform the test for amitraz resistance in Varroa destructor in honey bee colonies.
https://youtu.be/-YUyj_RrtB0?feature=shared
And find out how you can help honey bees by clicking on the extension service link below.
https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/
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