It’s the end of another honey bee season - and as the little gals are hunkering down, bracing for the cold winds of winter, our lab technicians are getting to work compiling data and publishing reports. Also coming with the end of the season is the close of our second official year of a project called Tier 4, or Real Time Disease Load Monitoring. This project provides colony health information to commercial, sideline and small-scale beekeepers. This year, fifteen of our Tier 4 participants collaborated with us on the Pollen Trap Collection Pilot study. The purpose of the pollen trap project is to give beekeepers…
Author: Todd Waters
Todd joined us 3 years ago as a University of Maryland undergraduate student studying Cell Biology and Genetics. He grew up in Northern Florida and joined the military after high school where he served as a Chinese Linguist in the US Air Force. In our lab he helps process samples, manages lab work, coordinates data entry and report generation for our Tech Transfer Teams, and does research on the dynamics of lipid-soluble chemicals in honey bees and hives.