jan-feb-2020

IN YOUR ORCHARD BIP is also pursuing its own funding for research projects. In the last year alone, BIP team submitted 31 funding requests to various foundations and grant committees, both to support continuing projects and to push forward into new ways to provide meaningful data to all stakeholders. In addition, in-house, BIP continues to address questions that matters to beekeepers. This year, we have conducted case studies and trials answering the following questions: • Impact of dose on Apivar effectiveness to control for Varroa mites • Improvement in hygienic behavior over time from active selection • Difference in precision and accuracy between monitoring methods: o Alcohol wash in field vs in lab o Alcohol wash vs Mite Drop See some on our one-pagers that summarize those trials on our brand new website at www.beeinformed.org. More to come! Looking Ahead to an Exciting 2020 We are forever pushing ourselves to bring more timely, relevant and actionable data to our beekeepers to inform their management decisions. Here are a few projects we will be working on in 2020. Emerging Issues In 2019, BIP developed its chain of action in response to emergency calls from beekeepers. After a first assessment from our Tech Transfer specialists, ambiguous cases are transferred to our Necropsy Committee, composed of expert researchers in a variety of apicultural fields, to try and elucidate the potential causes to the cases documented. With funding allocated to emerging issues, we hope to be able to apply new molecular techniques to investigate cases appearing and developing rapidly. 3 4 A L M O N D F A C T S