By: Seanna Wengryn, TTP Summer Student Honey bees are one of the most economically important pollinators and contribute approximately 6.1 billion dollars annually to the Canadian economy in pollination services (1). Alongside this, Canadian honey bees produce upwards of 75 million pounds of honey each year, adding another 253 million dollars to this contribution (1)....
Kayla deJong, TTP Summer Technician Early Life and the Teenage Days Honey bees have long had an industrious reputation, as their colonies are very complex with an overwhelming number of different activities being carried out simultaneously. The ease of which the thousands of bees in any single colony synergistically cooperate and contribute to each other’s...
Emily Olson, Tech Transfer Program Technician Do you ever wonder, what makes honey so good? How do bees convert nectar from flowers into this liquid gold? The answer to these questions is simple – bacteria! Honey bees have bacteria in their guts, just like us! However, the diversity of these bacteria is much lower in...