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Current and Future Researchheadline bar 1 - Current and Future Research
               2 - Grand Challenge Synergy Project  **1) Honey Bee Diet** Develop a liquid protein diet to promote stronger and healthier colonies for commercial pollination, queen rearing, and overwintering.
Develop a dry and semi solid diet formulation to provide beekeepers with alternative feeding methods.
Identify honey bee feeding stimulants from pollen. **2) Varroa Mite Research** Study the effect of humidity on mite development.
Identify Varroa mite volatiles.
Rear Varroa in Laboratory.
Explore natural and alternative controls for Varroa.
Control Varroa through essential oil enriched honey bee diets. **3) Africanized Honey Bees** Improve acceptance and maintenance of European honey bee queens in areas with Africanized honey bees.
Prevent the usurpation of European colonies by African swarms.
Identify Africanized honey bees samples through morphometrics. **4) Pollination** Evaluate pollen transfer mechanisms of genetically modified plants and hybrid crops. **5) Grand Challenge Synergy Project** Creating pollinator landscapes and overwintering practices to increase pollinator populations in a changing climate Determine climate effects on bloom and floral rewards
Team lead: Dr. Vanessa Corby-Harris
Create landscape level nutrition models
Team lead: Dr. Sarah Goslee
Determine pollinator number, diversity and pathogen loadTeam lead: Dr. Diana Cox-Foster
Develop a management plan for overwintering  colonies in cold storage
Team lead: Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman [1]
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