The project
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BEE-GUARDS aims to strengthen the resilience of the European beekeeping sector by providing sustainable management practices, novel breeding strategies and digital and forecasting tools that allow the sector to adapt to a changing environment. We focus on determining how abiotic factors such as management practices, climate change, nutrition and resource limitations drive emerging biotic stressors that threaten colony health and erode the resilience of European beekeeping.
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Please note, Argentina is also part of the consortium. Zoom to Argentina.
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Can an introduced honey bee bring new diseases with it?
A newly published study by BEE-GUARDS partners reports the accidental introduction of the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) into Malta and investigates the pathogens carried by this non-native species. …
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🐝 Field work never goes exactly as planned. A Spanish story in two acts.
Act I – The Vanishing SiteOur researcher arrives at Site 1, monitoring equipment in hand, ready to investigate pollinator-flower interactions.The site is… gone. Not “slightly disturbed”. Not “difficult to access”.Completely …
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Honey harvest day on our Danish BEE-GUARDS colonies.
Up early morning (2nd of June) to harvest the first honey of the season. The hive scale showed a loss of 45 kg, while the actual harvest was around 35 …
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In the 2025 bee season, you can engage in BEE-GUARDS research as citizen scientist. Help us studying wild pollinators or participate in a varroa control study with brood interruption! Sign up here to receive more information!
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European Union-funded research project
