Category: Honey Bee
Old World Meets New
Brandon Hopkins explains in an article in the Fall 2016 Northwest Farm and Ranch Magazine, how the WSU bee program is now using cryopreservation to conserve…
Bernardo Bearded by Bees
Provost, Dan Bernardo participates in wearing a beard full of live bees along with Steve Sheppard and Paul Stamets in order to raise awareness and…
Researchers Travel World to Breed a Better Honeybee
Brandon Hopkins, Steve Sheppard, and Susan Cobey explain in a Capital Press article, how they want to improve the genetic diversity in the U.S. honeybee population,…
Beekeepers are now ‘farmers’ in Washington State
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – A new law that defines Washington’s commercial beekeepers as farmers will enable the state to better reap…
Can Mushrooms Save the Honey Bee?
February 17, 2015 By Sylvia Kantor, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Research by a Washington State University bee scientist…
Saving Honey Bees
June 11, 2013 | On Solid Ground, CAHNRS | by Bob Hoffman Honey bees face a lot of challenges, according to Steve Sheppard, professor of…
Honey Bee Semen Bank
June 6, 2013 | WSU News, CAHNRS | by Bob Hoffman PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers are preparing to use liquid nitrogen to create a frozen semen…
Washington State Pressed To Save Honey Bees By Restricting Pesticides
April 30, 2013 | NW Public Radio, by Tom Banse For about seven years, many Western beekeepers have been plagued by unexplained die-offs in their…
Students spur local dialogue based on WSU bee study
April 22, 2013 | WSU News To bee or not to bee PULLMAN, Wash. - Six Walla Walla High School students have been busily traversing…
The Ups and Downs of Commercial Beekeeping
Special Entomology Seminar Friday, September 21 at 3:30 PM FSHN 164 presented by Eric Olson, Olson's Honey, Yakima WA Eric and Sue Olson are members…