WSU scientists find keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make the practice of “queen banking” more stable and less labor-intensive.
WSU honey bee scientists have written a free Extension publication that will help beekeepers identify if honey bee colonies have been attacked by Asian giant hornet.
The WSU honey bee and pollinator program will start making honey in Othello after the honey extracting machinery was recently moved from its Pullman home.
WSU’s new Honey Bee & Pollinator Research, Extension, and Education Facility officially opens, allowing for huge expansion in the amount of research scientists can do to help save the bees.
WSU’s honey bee research team will advance their study of refrigeration to fight varroa mites that harm honey bees with help from two new grants. First, the WSU team received a combined $200,000 from the Washington State Tree Fruit Research Commission and the Almond Board of California to purchase three 20-foot cargo containers, which will […]