honey bee project
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A Microscopic Look at Honeybees
A honeybee’s body has fascinated our industrial placement student Grace Skinner
Read moreFrom eight to (nearly) eight hundred: an update on honey sampling from around the UK
Laura Jones, a PhD researcher at the Garden, asked for honey samples from beekeepers around the UK. Here’s a run down on the labwork so far.
Read moreScience team at the Welsh Beekeeping Convention
Recently the Science team enjoyed a trip out from the lab and headed to the Welsh Beekeepers’ Association Convention at the showground in Builth Wells.
Read moreHoney bees like living close to the hedge – it’s official!
The Garden’s Science team has been investigating our honey bees’ preferred plants.
Read moreScience team out and about
The Science team have been out and about on our travels this past week. On Saturday Natasha, our Head of Science, gave a talk on our honey bee research to the Welsh Beekeepers’ Association conference in Builth Wells. It covered some of our previous work on DNA barcoding honey, our current honey bee research, and […]
Read moreYou are what you eat: our ongoing honey bee research
The Garden is using its hives and vast horticultural resource to investigate the foraging preferences of honey bees.
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