News bee research

News Bees@WUR

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  25 October 2019

  Climate change brings invasive beetle closer to Dutch honey bee

  - New research has found that if climate change continues on its current path, it's likely that our honey bee will be facing a new threat sometime in...
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  03 May 2018

  Honeybee winter mortality same as last year

  - Approximately the same numbers of honeybees survived the winter in the Netherlands as last year. This year around 84% of the honeybees came through...
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  22 April 2016

  Low mortality of Dutch honeybee colonies this winter

  - Last winter saw the lowest winter mortality of bee colonies for many years. While the loss rate was still around 20% in 2011, it fell below 10% over...