Wolfpack’s Waggle Newsletter
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What have we been up to? |
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This month has been super busy, and it’s not even the busy season yet! We held our first ‘Advanced’ BEES Academy of the season, holding a training for the grant awardees of the ‘Microbreeding Initiative‘ funded by the NC Tobacco Trust Fund and SARE. Thanks so much to Midnight Bee Supply for hosting, as well as for providing the beekeeping equipment to the 12 different participating groups who will be engaged in queen rearing this season. We are also gearing up for a busy research season, and Kim has been busy in the field building and painting new hive equipment. |
Lab spotlight |
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As the self-described jack-of-all-trades in the NC State Apiculture Program, Brad Metz is a newly promoted Research Scholar in the lab. Currently his research interests involve male life history patterns in the social and solitary bees, namely relationships among fitness parameters, reproductive and behavioral ontogeny, mating behaviors, and environmental stressors, nutrition, disease, and pesticides. Additionally, he spearheads the Honey Bee Queen & Disease Clinic, our client-driven, fee-based research and analytical service that partners with extension agencies, master beekeeper programs, honey bee breeders and beekeepers, and research labs throughout the country. Brad has become an indispensable member of the program and a true team player, and we look forward to working with him for the long term. |
What you should be doing in your apiary this month (Feb 2025) |
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February in North Carolina might be considered the beginning of the beekeeping season, at least in most areas… |
New publications and grant awards |
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Check out our new open-access publication on how temperature affects drones and their reproductive health! McAfee, A.*, B. N. Metz*, P. Connor, K. Du, C. W. Allen, L. A. Frausto, M. P. Swenson, K. Philips, M. Julien, B. Baer, D. R. Tarpy, and L. J. Foster. (2025). Influence of population origin, body mass, and viral infections on drone honey bee (Apis mellifera) heat tolerance. PLoS ONE, 20: e0317672. [LINK] |
Welcome to the lab! |
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Catherine Crosier is the newest member to join our lab group. An alumna of the Bee Informed Partnership, she was most recently at UC Davis doing research and extension with the beekeepers on the west coast. Before that, she graduated from Cornell University with a dual degree in Environment & Sustainability and Spanish, and she worked as part of the Dyce Lab tech team. Here at NC State, she will be working on various extension projects in the lab, including trainings on queen rearing, as well as start several research projects that she hopes to segue into a Masters degree. Welcome, Catherine! |
Teacher’s corner |
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Last fall, we wrapped up another successful offering of AEC 203. Aimed at non-science majors, the course is designed to fulfill the General Education Requirement (GER) for most University majors. As such, we not only cover the interesting aspects of honey bee biology and beekeeping, we also delve into honey bees in art and literature, mythology and religion, even politics and warfare! |