pan-european assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on the health of bees

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PoshBee research with Mark Brown

Mark Brown, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation at Royal Holloway, talks about leading the research consortium PoshBee, a world-first study of bees, who face many threats in Europe and across the world and are in decline.

Effects of pesticides on insects (English subtitles)

Honey bees, bumble bees and human achievements are increasingly getting in each other’s way.

At Freiburg University research is underway into how agricultural chemicals affect various species and whether the situation can be improved by introducing supplementary food sources for honey bees and bumble bees.

Wenn die Insekten sterben (If insects die out) (German version only)

If there are no bees, no bugs, no moths, then there is no pollination. But 90% of the wild and cultivated plants rely on pollination to bear fruit and multiply.

Pollination without insects - an experiment by fruit-grower Markus Marschall and Prof. Alexandra-Maria Klein, member of the PoshBee consortium.

Eine Zukunft für Insekten (Future for insects) (German version only)

Butterflies, wild bees, beetles and many other insects are threatened. If they extinct, the existence of humans would also be a matter of life and death.
This is how important these animals are for planet Earth!

They tingle, crawl, sting, hum and whir. Clealy, insects! If a colorful butterfly approaches, we are happy. On the other hand, wasps and ants are often annoying in summer. And if a mosquito stings us, we would even kill it. But if we look closely, we can see that insects are fascinating and enormously important!

Die Insektenretter (The insect rescuer) (German version only)

"One could imagine a world without insects, but this world would never function". This episode of the Planet E documentary focuses on the decline of insects and potential ways to address the issue.

With the focus set on bees, the documentary introduces PoshBee and its objective to explore the effects of various pesticides and combinations of pesticides on bees.

Field work adventures with PoshBee

This short montage gives a glimpse of PoshBee’s exciting fieldwork! The first video on PoshBee's YouTube channel shows the adventures of Irene Bottero, Elena Zioga and Amy Elisabeth Turner (Trinity College Dublin) during their 2019 work in the field. Feel free to share your photos and videos in the field with PoshBee!

Wild Bees Fly for Research (in English): an Agroscope semi-field experiment

A semi-field PoshBee experiment, led by project partner Agroscope, aims to track whether wild bees that are well nourished can better cope with plant protection products. Matthias Albrecht speaks about goals of the experiment and how it may contribute to improved bee risk assessment. Watch the video in Englidh language here.

Wild Bees Fly for Research (in German): an Agroscope semi-field experiment

The PoshBee Project: Highlights for 2020

A short video that showcases the main achievements of the PoshBee project in 2020.

PoshBee field and semi-field experiments: University of Freiburg

PoshBee field and semi-field experiments performed by a team of researchers from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

PoshBee Research: Testing effects of pesticide exposure to bees and bee larvae

This video shows PoshBee research performed by the project team at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). PoshBee researcher Piero Onorati presents the different measurements he and his team at SLU perform on adult honey bees and bee larvae to find out the effects on bee health of three categories of agricultural pesticides.

PoshBee: Sampling honey bee hives in Cork, Ireland

In this video PoshBee researcher Eleanor Attridge of the Federation of Beekeepers of Ireland Associations (FIBKA) demonstrates the application of PoshBee samplers on honey bee hives.