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By Kathy Keatley Garvey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(EXCERPTED)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a day too cold for honey bees to fly and nearly too cold for bundled dignitaries to speak, officials celebrated the opening of the newly constructed USDA-ARS bee research facility on Bee Biology Road on the UC Davis campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen bee breeder Jackie Park-Burris, a past president of the California State Beekeepers\u2019 Association and a leader in the industry, snipped the ribbon in 45-degree temperature, joining a group of other stakeholders to open the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the only USDA bee research team in California \u2014 where the action is,\u201d said emcee Paul Pratt, research leader of the Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research Lab. USDA maintains honey bee research facilities in Tucson, Ariz.; Beltsville, Md.; Baton Rouge, La.; and Stoneville, Miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe opening of the USDA-ARS bee lab marks a new opportunity for USDA and UC Davis entomologists to collaborate and investigate serious problems that affect stakeholders,\u201d said Steve Nadler, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. \u201cWe are very fortunate that the lab was built at UC Davis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Park-Burris, of Jackie Park-Burris Queens, Palo Cedro \u2014 her family has worked with UC Davis researchers for more than 80 years \u2014 cut the ribbon with four other stakeholders: almond pollination consultant Robert Curtis of Carmichael, former director and associate director (now retired) of Agricultural Affairs, Almond Board of California; Kevin Adee of Bruce, S.D., president of the American Honey Producers\u2019 Association; Brad Pankratz of Can-Am Apiaries, Orland; and Darren Cox of Cox Honey Farms, Logan, Utah, a past president of the American Honey Producers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pratt introduced newly hired research entomologists, Arathi Seshadri<\/a> and Julia Fine<\/a>, forming the Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research Unit at Davis. They are dedicated toward developing technology that improves colony survivorship through long-term studies of multiple stress factors, he said. \u201cThey will develop and transfer integrated biologically based approaches for the management of invasive species and the improvement of pollinator health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seshadri and Fine aim to improve honey bee survival and beekeeping sustainability in California and nationwide, Pratt said. They will collaborate with federal, university, non-governmental and industry partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We are grateful\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her talk, Park-Burris said that the \u201cCalifornia State Beekeepers\u2019 Association is overwhelmed that we have a USDA lab to collaborate with our UC Davis lab. We hope there\u2019s a lot of collaboration going on. We really look forward to that. As a stakeholder, my family has been raising queens just north of here (Palo Cedro) for over 80 years. Dr. Laidlaw had worked with my uncle and my father. He\u2019s been at my house. And he\u2019s been through my bees. Julia (Fine) has even already been up to see the queen farm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe queen bee breeding industry could definitely use you guys,\u201d Park-Burris continued. \u201cCalifornia has all the issues because everybody comes here. \u2026it\u2019s very important that we have this lab here and how grateful we are that you have all gone to the work to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe look forward to solving some of our problems \u2014 varroa, varroa, varroa \u2014 and forage and pesticide interaction,\u201d Park-Burris said, \u201cand all that happens in California during the largest pollinator event in the world. So you\u2019re in a good place and we\u2019re grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UC Cooperative Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen later commented: \u201cI think that the collaboration among the new USDA bee lab personnel, cooperating researchers, and beekeepers should provide an opportunity to probe deeply into potential causes of colony loss.  The ability to follow the health of individual bees and colonies, throughout the year, should provide important clues about precursors of colony decline, well in advance of the ultimate collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to the complete article in the Davis Enterprise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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