Giving Beekeeping Guidance by cOmputatiOnal-assisted Decision making
On July 26th, 2023 B-GOOD coordinator Prof. Dr. Dirk de Graaf from Ghent University, Belgium, gave a lecture about marker-assisted selection in beekeeping at the polli.NET seminar, taking place at the Auditorium of Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal. The event was also streamed online for those who did not have the opportunity to attend in person. Poster of the polli.NET event The lecture entitled "Paving the way to marker-assisted...
This press release was originally published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. B-GOOD organises a new Special Issue focusing on solutions to enhance sustainable beekeeping and improve bee management. The "Healthy and Sustainable Beekeeping" Special Issue in the open-access journal by MDPI Insects aims to bring together research articles and reviews of various disciplines related to the beekeeping of Apis spp. (including Apis mellifera and any of the Asian honey...
The European Research Executive Agency (REA), Unit B.3 "Biodiversity, Circular Economy and Environment", has recently released a detailed report highlighting opportunities and knowledge gaps in pollinator research and innovation in the European Union. The report, titled ‘Opportunities and knowledge gaps for EU Research and Innovation on pollinators’, is the outcome of a workshop organised by REA on October 10, 2022, which aimed to promote dialogue, identify research and...
On June 28th, 2023 the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNHS) in Sofia inaugurated its latest temporary exhibition titled 'The pollinators we can't live without,' which sheds light on the crucial role of pollinators, the challenges they confront, and the necessary measures for their preservation. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with B-GOOD, along with two prominent projects, PoshBee and Safeguard, which presented their...
This press release was originally published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.On June 28, 2023, at 6 PM (EEST), the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia will present the temporary exhibition ‘The pollinators we can’t live without’. The new exhibition of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNHS) focuses on the essence and importance of pollinators. The attendees of the...
BEEP has now become a customisable platform that can be applied for research of honeybee colonies, bumblebees, wild honeybee colonies, etc. The BEEP platform is an 'open research' platform, which allows users to obtain high-quality data and monitor bee colonies in a harmonised and standardised way. To make this harmonisation in data collection possible, the BEEP foundation has compiled a standardised data model, based on about 30 sources. Image: Overview of the main BEEP...
The B-GOOD socio-economics research team from Ghent University (BE), Aarhus University (DK) and University of Coimbra (PT) has published their findings on European beekeeping facing climate change through the lens of stakeholders and beekeepers. This study, published in the renowned scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, is the first to show how climate change is experienced in the European beekeeping sector and forces beekeepers to change their beekeeping management practices....
A recent study published in the Peer Community Journal and titled "Brood thermoregulation effectiveness is positively linked to the amount of brood but not to the number of bees in honeybee colonies" sheds light on the factors influencing the effectiveness of brood thermoregulation in honeybee colonies. The findings provide valuable insights into the role of colony size and meteorological conditions in maintaining optimal brood temperatures. By using methods of experimental setup,...
A new B-GOOD video titled "Tool for honeybee genotyping based on TaqMan technology" describes the basics of the TaqMan technology and demonstrates the procedure to genotype honeybees for the SMR trait. In a short introduction, the coordinator of the B-GOOD project Prof. Dirk de Graaf from Ghent University talks about a 2019 scientific report on the genetic predisposition of mite resistance, written by him and his team. The report, published in the Nature Journal...
B-GOOD organises a new Special Issue focusing on solutions to enhance sustainable beekeeping and improve bee management. The "Healthy and Sustainable Beekeeping" Special Issue in the open-access journal by MDPI Insects aims to bring together research articles and reviews of various disciplines related to the beekeeping of Apis spp. (including Apis mellifera and any of the Asian honey bees). The editing and publication of the collection will be implemented within the scope of the...
A new B-GOOD video titled "How to merge BEEP base offline data with database data" demonstrates theBEEP base, a monitoring tool and a digital logbook for beekeepers. The BEEP monitoring system which includes the BEEP base and the BEEP app, is developed by the BEEP Foundation within the B-GOOD project. The video demonstrate the detailed process of the BEEP base offline data with database data. The BEEP platform is an 'open research'...
A recent study published in the Sensors journal has developed a new monitoring system that uses factors other than temperature and humidity in honeybee hives as an indicator for colony health. The study "A Monitoring System for Carbon Dioxide in Honeybee Hives: An Indicator of Colony Health" aimed to better understand the impact of carbon dioxide on the health and survival of honeybee colonies. The current generation of NDIR carbon dioxide sensors has been demonstrated to be well-suited to the...
B-GOOD paves the way towards healthy and sustainable beekeeping within the European Union by following a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach. In order to be able to provide guidance for beekeepers and help them make better and more informed decisions, having sufficient expertise across partners is essential. Therefore, B-GOOD brings together highly-qualified scientists, who are recognised experts in the fields of apiculture, bee physiology and pathology, assay development, ecology,...
Project partners and multi-actor forum members of the B-GOOD project met up on the 16th and 17th of January 2023 in Schkopau (Halle), Germany. The two-day event was hosted by project partner the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and entailed informative presentations, in-depth discussions, workshops, as well as an overview of the projects’ developments and expected outcomes. The first day of the event invited B-GOOD beekeepers to share their experiences, while the second...
B-GOOD's 8th Consortium Meeting will take place on 16 & 17 January 2023. Project partners will meet up in Schkopau, Germany to discuss project progress & future actions. The participants will go over B-GOOD’s latest updates and will participate in a workshop to discuss different aspects of sustainable beekeeping, both environmental and financial. The meeting will be hybrid - in person and online - and all sessions will be in English. Follow us on our social media...
Are you curious to know what B-GOOD has achieved in the past year? In our new video, we take a look back to appreciate some of our greater accomplishments. With this video, we also want to thank all the B-GOOD members for the hard work and to our audience, for supporting us throughout the year. We can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring us! Enjoy the video:
A new B-GOOD video titled "Lateral flow device for neonicotinoid contamination screening" shows the application of the lateral flow devices (LFDs) for detection of the presence of pesticides. B-GOOD partners of University of Coimbra and Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) tested the LFDs’ ability to detect neonicotinoids under laboratory and field conditions in several honey bee colony components - nectar, honey, pollen, beebread. Furthermore, they assessed their...
Recently, B-GOOD partner Dr. Alexis Beaurepaire of University of Bern was invited to speak about the project on the French television programme Forum. Forum is daily show on RTS TV that questions actors and players on high-priority themes of current common interest, opening the debate on the controversies that animate the political, cultural and economic life. Photo: Dr. Alexis Beaurepaire on the French television programme Forum Alexis gave an overview of the project and its...
The first part of the 18th COLOSS Conference took place online on 17-18 October. The two-part 2022 e-gathering consists of 2 days full of workshops and a main event, which will be held on 2-3 November. COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) is an international, non-profit association headquartered in Bern, Switzerland that is focused on improving the well-being of bees at a global level. It is composed of scientific professionals that include researchers, veterinarians, agriculture...