Spent 15 min with Cecilia Costas to understand BeeGuards at her presentation at the 3rd International Event on bee health towards sustainable apiculture, Tenuta Presidenziale di Castelporziano on the 17th May.
B-Rap AI challenge
The BeeGuards work package dedicated to science-society interactions seeks innovative ways of disseminating knowledge to beekeepers? Will artificial intelligence play a major role in the future? Our project partners from University of Graz participated in the COLOSS B-Rap AI challenge. You can read the paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/…/10…/0005772X.2024.2348305
Queencaging.
An innovative method to control Varroa destructor in honey bee colonies are brood interruptions reached by caging the queen. There are several options of queen cages available out there, but University of Graz shows us in a short video how to build such a cage from available materials.
Show us your devise for queen caging!