ARS Research Labs Studying Honey

• Honey Bee Research
• Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology: Chemistry Research
• Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research
• Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory

49 Research Projects Studying Honey

• Multidisciplinary approach to understanding attraction and vectoring by a key parasite of honey bees (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Developing and deploying novel tools to support varroa mite ipm in specialty crop pollinating honey bee colonies (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• A multidisciplinary approach for tackling emerging disease outbreaks in honeybees, apis mellifera (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Investigation of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of sacbrood virus (sbv) infection in honeybees (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Tackling the causes of severe honeybee colony losses to protect pollination services (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Mitigating disease and stress in honey bee colonies (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Using big data to improve diagnosis of larval disease in honey bees (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Straining the gut: diversity of and genome-based treatments for trypanosomatid parasites of honey bees (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Investigation of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of sacbrood virus (sbv) infection in honeybees (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• A multidisciplinary approach for tackling emerging disease outbreaks in honeybees, apis mellifera (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Integrated research for varroa management and honey bee resilience (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Bee Research Laboratory)
• Plant exploration in minnesota to collect native honeysuckle (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: National Germplasm Resources Laboratory)
• Functional test and application of genomic selection on honey bees (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• No more mummies: novel and integrative treatment options for ascosphaera apis in honey bees (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Evaluating the nutritional and immune stimulating properties of microalgae supplementation on honey bee workers and queens. (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Selection and production of virus-resistant honey bees: ensuring future food security by reducing colony losses, improving beekeeping sustainability (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Microalgae as a novel platform to improve honey bee nutrition, microbiome health, and pathogen resistance (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Understanding host-microbiota interactions to improve honey bee health (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Assessment and improvements of honey bee stocks in urban environments (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Pangenome and genetic characterization of global honey bee populations (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Propolis reduces efb and varroa infestation in honey bees used for blueberry pollination (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• No more mummies: novel and integrative treatment options for ascosphaera apis in honey bees (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Developing and deploying novel tools to support varroa mite ipm in specialty crop pollinating honey bee colonies (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Improving honey bee health through breeding and development of genetic and management tools (Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics, and Physiology Research)
• Using big data to improve diagnosis of larval disease in honey bees (Honey Bee Research)
• Year two of a comprehensive assessment of honey bee pollen substitutes (Honey Bee Research)
• The honey bee microbiome: social and reproductive functions in health and disease (Honey Bee Research)
• Integrated research for varroa management and honey bee resilience (Honey Bee Research)
• Enhancing pollination in blueberries by improving honey bee health and colony strength (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
• Determining the vector risk of the invasive yellow-legged hornet to honey bees through pathogen detection and profiling (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research: Crop Bioprotection Research)
• Understanding seasonal differences in parasitic varroa mite population resistance levels in honey bee colonies (Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory: Pest Management Research)
• Reducing co2-related disorders during honeycrisp rapid ca treatment (Physiology and Pathology of Tree Fruits Research)
• Long-term monitoring of honey bee health and related analyses of bee samples for pathogens (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Precision assessment of the impact of nutrition on honey bee health in the us (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Spatiotemporal monitoring of hive pesticide exposure and honey bee colony health (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• The effect of the weather on the honey bee health (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Development of a mass-rearing honey bee system under controlled conditions (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Impacts of sunflowers on honey bee colony survival and pollination (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Longitudinal monitoring studies on honey bee colonies (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• Developing sustainable strategies to combat small hive beetle (shb) infestation of honey bee hives (Pollinator Health In Southern Crop Ecosystems Research)
• a microrna approach to understanding honey bee pathogen-host interactions (Southern Horticultural Research)
• Pollination efficiency of deployable honey bee hive units (Southern Horticultural Research)
• Additive effects of honey and whole foods in altering postprandial glycemia (Western Human Nutrition Research Center: Diet, Microbiome and Immunity Research)
• Harnessing diverse fungal natural products for honey bee therapeutics (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)
• Determining effects of nutritional and agrochemical stressors on honey bee health, via longitudinal studies on colony performance and direct tests (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)
• Harnessing diverse fungal natural products for honey bee antiviral therapeutics (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)
• Improving honey bee health and food security through breeding and ipm control of parasitic mites in california (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)
• Quantifying the effects of pesticides on honey bee reproduction (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)
• Long-term honey bee health colony monitoring (Western Regional Research Center: Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research)