Wolfpack’s Waggle Newsletter
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What have we been up to? |
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Our summer research has largely come to an end in the field but not in the lab. Molly has been following up on her large field study with some cage work, although the time of the year makes survival in the cages a bit more of a challenge. Kim has been taking the opportunity to conduct mite washes on all of our colonies, with the help for several excellent beekeeper volunteers, so that we can control their numbers if they are too high (luckily, while we have some with high numbers, most don’t so our bees are looking really healthy!). Jennifer and David are getting ready for another BEES Academy in a few weeks, and we’ve been following up on the ‘Microbreeding initiative’ participating clubs to see how things fared this year. Brad has been mentoring numerous undergrads on various projects, and now that the semester is underway he’s falling into a good routine. |
Lab spotlight |
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It is with great pride and pleasure to announce that Jennifer Keller is the 2025 recipient of the Eastern Apiculture Society’s Roger Morse Award! This award is given to those who demonstrate exemplary service in extension, regulatory service, or teaching in apiculture. With nearly 25 years serving the industry, and especially serving as the EAS “bee wrangler” with Don Hopkins at their summer conventions, Jennifer has done just that. Congratulations, Jen, on the recognition of your many accomplishments! |
What you should be doing in your apiary this month (September 2025) |
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September should be a relatively uneventful month in the apiary. The major workload is done for the season and…… |
New publications and grant awards |
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Brad Metz just got a $200,000 grant from the USDA Crop Protection and Pest Management program with former PhD student and current NC State collaborator, Hannah Levenson. The project is to see how increase pesticide applications in caneberry affects the native bees nesting within the crop (“residents”) versus the bee species nesting outside of the crop (“commuters”). This project clearly has implications for bee health and finding ways to reduce pesticide exposure. Congratulations, guys! |
…and sadly missed |
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While Catherine Crosier was only with us since this past February, she has moved onto graduate school at North Dakota State. This was always her goal and intention, so it’s great to see her advance in her career goals. The lab she’s joining there is with a brand new Assistant Professor, so it will be exciting for her to help start a new program. Catherine’s infectious enthusiasm will be missed, but we wish her all the best and look forward to interacting with her going forward. |
Teacher’s corner |
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We are several weeks into teaching AEC 203 “An Introduction to the Honey Bee and Beekeeping,” and things are going well. The students are engaged and into the material thus far, so we hope that continues. We have moved some of the lectures around this semester to accommodate for some travel, but that should not really affect much. |
