IN YOUR ORCHARD
Garett Slater, Midwest Team member inspecting fall colonies.
Photo credit: Bee Informed Partnership
what is at stake and how difficult it is to get half of all the
bees in the U.S. ready and in sufficient quality and quantity
to pollinate almonds when it is winter in most of the U.S.
regions. The beekeepers (Jason Miller and Russell Heitkam)
are able to learn about what the almond growers and crop
advisors worry about from bloom to harvest. Weather,
pests, and fungi are all an issue for the grower. The
introduction of cover crops that provide additional forage
for bees in almonds is a recent benefit and one that really
bridges the divide between the growers and beekeepers.
Increasing communication between these two groups are
vital if they are going to continue to be dependent on each
other for success.
Bee Informed Partnership Annual Fundraiser
The Bee Informed Partnership is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose sole goal is to provide up-to-date honey bee
health data to beekeepers so that they may better manage their bees. We also welcome and encourage the distribution
of this information - as many of you have done - to educate others about the challenges facing honey bees and the ways
that we can help solve them. We remain an independent and unbiased source of honey bee health data, providing up-to-
date and regionally-specific information to beekeepers, researchers, and policymakers nationwide. We also aim to inform
concerned citizens and industry leaders so they too may promote the protection of honey bees and other important plant
pollinators. For December, we are raising funds to support our work.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Bee Informed Partnership today by visiting
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Funds raised will directly support the major pillars of BIP’s research and outreach program: 1) Our interactive national
Colony Loss Map
; 2) Providing an early warning system to beekeepers regarding seasonal and regional threats to honey
bee health through the
Sentinel Apiary Project
; 3) Evaluating annual colony mortality causes found in our interactive
National Management Survey Tool
; and 4) Providing the infrastructure to support and manage the
APHIS State
National Honey Bee Pest and Disease survey
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We house and maintain the largest publicly available honey bee health database in the United States. As such, we need
financial help from the community to help fund our efforts. Donations provide the necessary support that allows us to
continue providing the research
required to make informed, data-
based decisions that will help
beekeepers keep bees better. And
as we have seen in the job swap
experiments described here, better
bees make better almonds.
AnneMarie Fauvel,
Tech Transfer Team
Coordinator,
The Bee Informed
Partnership, Inc.
Karen Rennich,
Executive
Director,
The Bee Informed
Partnership, Inc.
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