BeeGuards reaching out!

BeeGuards presenting itself in northern Italy at the conference of a beekeepers’ association in North of Italy (Associazione Produttori Apistici delle province di Como e Lecco). 0ver 80 participants. Many professionals. Riccardo Terriaca, president of a national professional beekeeper association (Miele in Cooperativa), talked about the honey market, problems of importation and unfair competition. Cecilia Costa from CREA in Bologna talked about Varroa resistance, known mechanisms and populationdynamics. And what can scientists and beekeeper do together to promote sustainable beekeeping and the development of resistant honeybees? Here BeeGuards turns up as an exciting project.

Volcani Center

May we present our wonderful team. There is 27 of them. Today: The Agricultural Research Organization of Israel – the Volcani Center, 3_ARO. Israel

BeeGuards kick-off meeting in Bologna

Antonio Nanetti


On the 26th-28th of November, the very large consortium of the BeeGuards EU-project did have their kick-off meeting in Bologna. It is not a secret, that our consortium is one of the biggest ones, with 27 partners from all over Europe plus Argentina and Israel. More than 60 involved scientists, beekeeping advisers, and organizations met for the first time, to network, get to know each other, inspire each other, discuss and present the workplans of the 10 different work packages. It was 3 very intense days filled with exciting discussions. The picture of something very fruitful starts to become drawn. We are looking forward cooperating for the good of pollinators, bees and European apiculture in the next 4 years. www.beeguards.eu – for resilient beekeeping. Picture Credit: Antonio Nanetti.

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