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- Cold Storage Overview
- Why put colonies in cold storage to overwinter?
- When to put colonies in cold storage?
- Which colonies to put into cold storage?
- Cold Storage Overwintering Tool
- Overview
- Objective 1: Climate effects on bloom and floral rewards
- Objective 2. Landscape level nutrition models
- Objective 3: Determine pollinator number, diversity and pathogen load
- Objective 4: Develop a management plan for overwintering colonies in cold storage
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- Varroa Overview
- Varroa mite life cycle and reproduction
- Varroosis
- How to Monitor, Sample, and Treat for Varroa
- Current Research: Mite Migration
- Introduction
- BEEPOP+ Model

Collaborations The Carl Hayden Bee Research Center has a long and productive history of collaborative research involving stakeholders.  Current collaborators and projects:  Contribution of Tallow to Honey Bee Colony Nutrition  Creating Linux and WWW Versions of the VARROAPOP Program  Year Two of a Comprehensive Assessment of Honey Bee Pollen Substitutes  Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Health and Disease in Honey Bees  Using Big Data to Improve Diagnosis of Larval Disease in Honey Bees  Nutritional Analysis of Pollen from Bee Pollinated Plants Nutritional Analysis of Pollen from Bee Pollinated Plants  Year Two of a Comprehensive Assessment of Honey Bee Pollen Substitutes  Apiary Sites for USDA-ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center (CHBRC), Research Honey Bee Colonies  Colonies in Cold Storage by Examining Relationships among Brood Rearing, Fat Body Metrics & Hours in Cluster to Predict Formation of Winter Bees


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