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New Educational Website: BeeFUNdamentals for NewBEES

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https://beefundamentals.com/ ~ Honey Bee FUNdamentals is a series of educational tools to educate and to inspire all ages–all about the honey bee. Each Volume includes comprehensive explanations and graphics covering: anatomy, digestion, reproduction, behavior, caste system–the role of the individual honey bee and within its colony. The website is the first tool to provide fundamental information about the honey bee, starting with their unique anatomy, digestive and reproductive tracts, how to become a beekeeper–through continuing education and career opportunities, and to encourage honey bee husbandry, to instill how to advocate for the preservation and sustainability of apiculture–and our honey bees, as their own, unique species. Their mission is to fill the educational gap by offering structured, accurate, and engaging honey bee education for “NewBees” and future beekeepers. From learning how a bee’s stomach works, to why drones don’t have dads, to building bee baths and planting for pollinators—this series is a comprehensive guide for understanding, appreciating, and protecting our amazing honey bees. The Beekeeping FUNdamentals series introduces pathways into beekeeping, honey bee husbandry, and advocacy for apiculture, helping kids grow from curious observers to lifelong bee stewards. This novel program offers certification programs for each program in the series.

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Bee Caste & Communication

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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Together with the honey bee dance, honey bee pheromones represent one of the most advanced ways of communication among social insects. Pheromones are chemical substances secreted by an animal’s exocrine glands that elicit a behavioral or physiological response by another animal of the same species. In honey bees the targets of pheromonal messages are usually members of the same colony, but there are some exceptions in which the target can be a member of another colony (Free 1987). The composite organization of the honey bee society, which consists of three adult castes (queen, worker, and male) and non-self-sufficient brood, provides for many coordinated activities and developmental processes and thus needs a similar elaborate way of communication among the colony members. Pheromones are the key factor in generating and maintaining this complexity, assuring a broad plasticity of functions that allow the colony to deal with unforeseen events or changing environmental conditions. Pheromones are involved in almost every aspect of the honey bee colony life: development and reproduction (including queen mating and swarming), foraging, defense, orientation, and in general the whole integration of colony activities, from foundation to decline. Pheromones allow communication among all the honey bee castes: queen–workers, workers–workers, queen–drones, and between adult bees and brood (Trhlin and Rajchard 2011; Winston 1987). In honey bees, as in other animals, there are two types of pheromones: primer pheromones and releaser pheromones. Primer pheromones act at a physiological level, triggering complex and long-term responses in the receiver and generating both developmental and behavioral changes. Releaser pheromones have a weaker effect, generating a simple and transitory response that influences the receiver only at the behavioral level… Click to read more: Chemical Communication in the Honey Bee Society  

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Online Beekeeping Resources

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About Honey Bees & Beekeeping How to start beekeeping, create good habitat and tell bees and wasps apart Honey Bee Books / Recommended Reading UK – Northern Bee Books – Recommended Reading Your Pollinator Book List, Lisa Mason Honey Bee Biology Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Logan, UT
Colorado Bee Guide https://beebiology.ucdavis.edu/ Feeding Honey Bees Feeding Bees (Pollen, Nectar, Water) Honey Bees & Impacts of Pesticides Defending Pollinators from the Adverse Impacts of Pesticides IPM – Varroa Mite Treatments Integrated Hive Management for Colorado Beekeepers, Dr. Arathi Seshadri & Thia Walker. Fungus Provides Powerful Medicine Fighting Honey Bee Viruses Meet Dr. Sammy, the Colorado researcher trying to fend off the next honeybee pandemic Beekeeping Podcasts Healthy Bees, Heavy Hives Podcast UFL Honey Bee Podcast What a Bee Knows Podcast Honey Bee & Pollinator Advocates National Honey Bee Health Committee Boulder, Colorado – Pollinator Advocates Boulder Colorado – Pollinator Gardens & Pathways UC Berkley Bee Lab Colorado Ag Apiary Local Research Program NCBI NLM NIH – American Bee Research Honey Bee Species Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory, Baton Rouge, LA Bee Basics: An Introduction to Our Native Bees, By Beatriz Moisset, Ph.D. and Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D. Russian Honey Bees, Dr. Tom Rinderer and Steve Coy Gardening for Honey Bees & Pollinators Attracting Native Bees to Your Landscape, H.S. Arathi, D. Davidson and L. Mason, CSU Extension Attracting Butterflies to the Garden, P.A. Opler and W.S. Cranshaw, CSU Extension Creating Pollinator Habitat, H.S. Arathi, D. Davidson and L. Mason 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, The Xerces Society Colorado – CSU – Suggested Plant List Selecting Plants for Pollinators: A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners in the Colorado Plateau Semi Desert Province Pollinator Book List Pollinator.org Native Bee Watch Community Science Program Colorado Queen Honey Bee Testing Project for Increased Sustainability Pollinators of the Great Plains: Disturbances, Stressors, Management, and Research Needs Abstract

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