The global COLOSS network will identify the factors at the individual honeybee and colony levels causing severe colony losses and investigate synergistic effects between them. This will enable the development and dissemination of emergency measures and sustainable management strategies to prevent large scale losses.
For this purpose, scientists, beekeepers and industry members from currently 49 countries collaborate with complementary approaches, thereby providing the crucial R&D link for the success of this Action. This worldwide integrated approach will mitigate the detrimental impact of honeybee colony losses for beekeepers, agriculture and natural biodiversity.
http://coloss.org/ (http://coloss.org/)
Thanks for the post Finski,
I'm concerned though, I only saw one Finnish beekeeper on the whole team :?
I read the research paper about breeding for resistance to Varroa in Europe. An interesting paper. It covered a lot of possible explanations for resistant strains. They discussed much of what various 'experts' on this forum attribute to their mite free bees, and dismiss some.
BlueBee is STUBBORN, but I try to learn.....
Quote from: BlueBee on January 24, 2011, 01:05:35 PM
I'm concerned though, I only saw one Finnish beekeeper on the whole team :?
We have only one beekeeper researcher and he is there.
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