PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine
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PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine A first-of-its kind bee vaccine created by a Georgia company could be key to saving hives and the food supply.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Honeybees are responsible for pollinating one-third of the world’s food supply.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine The idea for a honeybee vaccine was born at a lab at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Lonnie Burfield said he fell into the bee business when a friend asked him to care for two hives.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine The vaccine is put into a sugar paste called “queen candy”. It’s then fed to the queen bee and transfers into larvae, eventually protecting young bees from American Foulbrood.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Brian Monahan visited a bee farm in Carroll County to see how every day citizens are also working to protect bee colonies.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine The team of researchers are on a mission to save them from the American Foulbrood Disease.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Honeybees are responsible for pollinating one-third of the world’s food supply.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Brian Monahan visited a bee farm in Carroll County to see how every day citizens are also working to protect bee colonies.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Honeybees are responsible for pollinating one-third of the world’s food supply.
PHOTOS: Georgia researchers helping to save honeybee population with new vaccine Lonnie Burfield said he fell into the bee business when a friend asked him to care for two hives.
