Lab Work Completed!

Jul 13, 2017

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Alex Burnham is performing an "alcohol shake" to examine a bee sample for Varroa mites. Any mites present in the bee sample will fall out of the screened lid of the jar onto the tray. 
Lab Work Completed!We finished our lab work a few weeks ago as scheduled! We are currently working to finish compiling our results, analyzing data, and creating polished figures. Stay tuned...
 
Results from the nanospectrometer- a device that uses light to measure the quantity and quality of RNA or DNA. Here, we are testing RNA extracted from a honey bee sample. Next, we will test the RNA for viruses using a technique known as Real-time polymerase chain reaction. 

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Bill CastroBacker

I am pleased to be a contributor to this study do we can start clearing the air about the status of beekeeping in the US. The current state of the beekeeping industry is embarrassing. The only answers the industry seems to be intetested in is more chemicals and artificial diets.

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Home sick: Effects of migratory beekeeping on honey bee disease

University of Vermont

Crop pollination by migratory beekeeping operations presents a highly concentrated convergence of bees where diseases may be transmitted and spread as hives are transported throughout the US. To test if migratory operations contribute to the spread of disease, we propose an experiment where we subject hives to almond pollination in California and compare their disease loads to stationary hives in N. Carolina. Upon the return of the migratory hives, we will measure subsequent disease spread.