To further support sustainable beekeeping practices, PoshBee has published four new practice abstracts on the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) platform. These brief and direct pieces of research information aim to make project results more available to practitioners in order to foster sustainable farming.

Beekeeper taking care of his hives.

The four new abstracts discuss: 

• beekeepers willingness to take up new bee health tools and what influences such willingness – Practice abstract 5;

• the use of behavioural and reproductive performances as assessment endpoints of honey bees’ health – Practice abstract 6;

• the effects of pollen nutrition on honey bee tolerance to pesticides – Practice abstract 7;

• semi-field studies on how pairs of stressors (pesticide + pesticide; pesticide + nutritional deficit) impact honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees  – Practice abstract 8.

With these four new practice abstracts, PoshBee now has a total of eight abstracts available on the EIP-AGRI platform. The previous four abstracts focus on: 

• PoshBee’s goals – Practice abstract 1;

• recommendations for groups planning to perform multi-partner, farm-scale, field studies on pollinating insects – Practice abstract 2;

• the effect of real-world clothianidin exposure on bees across oilseed rape fields in southern Sweden – Practice abstract 3;

• recommendations aiming to maximise the efficiency of the work invested in a project – Practice abstract 4.

You can read all of PoshBee’s practice abstracts here. 

PoshBee will continue to produce practice abstracts, so as to translate important scientific outcomes for the needs of practitioners.