The project
Understand BEE-GUARDS in just 15 min. Podcast with Cecilia Costa
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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Exciting research on the spread of Tropilaelaps via honey bee swarming – made by BEE-GUARDS team members
An international team of researchers, led by the first author Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Uzunov (UKIM), demonstrated that T. mercedesae mites successfully transfer into a new swarm, with some continuing to …
📢 🐝 Want to be part of science?📢 🐝
Join BEE-GUARDS Horizon Europe Project: a new Citizen Science activity on pollinators! 🦋 As part of the European project @beeguards (www.bee-guards.eu), a new citizen science activity is starting, dedicated to …
BEE-GUARDS at Apimell: live from the hive! 🐝
BEE-GUARDS at Apimell: live from the hive! 🐝The hive was buzzing last weekend! BEE-GUARDS landed at Apimell (Piacenza, northern Italy) — one of the biggest international beekeeping trade fairs, with …
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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
