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Bee experts Liz Walsh and Lanie Bilodeau offer tips for making your home yards more bee friendly. 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/ [https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/] Connect with us:   * Twitter: @USDA_ARS [https://twitter.com/USDA_ARS] * Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService [https://www.facebook.com/AgriculturalResearchService] * LinkedIn: @usda-ars [https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-ars]

Being the queen bee may have its perks, but there’s a lot of stress to the job. Sure, you have worker bees bringing you food, grooming you, and caring for your babies. But you are responsible for the livelihood of your children – not just 3 or 4 or 5 babies but tens of thousands. That can put tremendous stress on anyone, queen bees included.  ARS researcher, Mohamed Alburaki explains what it is like to be the queen bee. 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/ [https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/] Connect with us:   * Twitter: @USDA_ARS [https://twitter.com/USDA_ARS] * Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService [https://www.facebook.com/AgriculturalResearchService] * LinkedIn: @usda-ars [https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-ars]

The varroa mite is one of the biggest threats to honey bees around the world. Essentially, it’s a modern honey bee plague. Varroa is an invasive species that originated in Asia.  Learn what ARS researchers are doing to protect honey bees from varroa mites.  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 [https://youtu.be/-YUyj_RrtB0?feature=shared] 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/ [https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/] Connect with us:   * Twitter: @USDA_ARS [https://twitter.com/USDA_ARS] * Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService [https://www.facebook.com/AgriculturalResearchService] * LinkedIn: @usda-ars [https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-ars]

Today, bees and other pollinators are facing many pressing issues, either directly related or amplified by climate change. And the big question is, can they adapt to our ever evolving climate change conditions? Listen in and find out. 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/ [https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/] Connect with us:   * Twitter: @USDA_ARS [https://twitter.com/USDA_ARS] * Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService [https://www.facebook.com/AgriculturalResearchService] * LinkedIn: @usda-ars [https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-ars]

Take a trip with us to ARS’s Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Unit in Albany, CA, where researchers are looking at long-term factors affecting bee health and colony survival.  They want to better understand how factors such as nutrition, pesticides, extreme weather, and natural events impact colony performance and sustainability over multiple seasons. 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/ [https://extension.org/find-cooperative-extension-in-your-state/] Connect with us:   * Twitter: @USDA_ARS [https://twitter.com/USDA_ARS] * Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService [https://www.facebook.com/AgriculturalResearchService] * LinkedIn: @usda-ars [https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-ars]