Current and Future Research

1 - Current and Future Research 2 - Grand Challenge Synergy Project

1) Honey Bee Diet

• Develop a liquid protein diet to promote stronger and healthier colonies for commercial pollination, queen rearing, and overwintering.
• Develop a dry and semi solid diet formulation to provide beekeepers with alternative feeding methods.
• Identify honey bee feeding stimulants from pollen.

2) Varroa Mite Research

• Study the effect of humidity on mite development.
• Identify Varroa mite volatiles.
• Rear Varroa in Laboratory.
• Explore natural and alternative controls for Varroa.
• Control Varroa through essential oil enriched honey bee diets.

3) Africanized Honey Bees

• Improve acceptance and maintenance of European honey bee queens in areas with Africanized honey bees.
• Prevent the usurpation of European colonies by African swarms.
• Identify Africanized honey bees samples through morphometrics.

4) Pollination

• Evaluate pollen transfer mechanisms of genetically modified plants and hybrid crops.

5) Grand Challenge Synergy Project

Creating pollinator landscapes and overwintering practices to increase pollinator populations in a changing climate

• Determine climate effects on bloom and floral rewards
  • Team lead: Dr. Vanessa Corby-Harris
• Create landscape level nutrition models
  • Team lead: Dr. Sarah Goslee
• Determine pollinator number, diversity and pathogen load
  
  • Team lead: Dr. Diana Cox-Foster
• Develop a management plan for overwintering
  colonies in cold storage
  • Team lead: Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman

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