Proceedings of the American Bee Research Conference 2011

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The 2011 American Bee Research Conference was held January 6-7 at the San Luis Resort in Galveston, TX. The twenty fifth American Bee Research Conference will be held in Beltsville, MD in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Apiary Inspectors of America in February 2012. The following are abstracts from the 2011 Conference.

  • Published in the May 2011 issue of the American Bee Journal. Download .pdf of the Proceedings

Proceedings of the American Bee Research Conference, 2009

  • Published in the June 2009 American Bee Journal

Download a .pdf here.


The 2009 American Bee Research Conference was held February 4-6, 2009 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. The twenty third American Bee Research Conference will be held in conjunction with the American Beekeeping Federation in Orlando, Florida in 2010. The following are abstracts from the 2009 Conference.


1.Afik, O.a, A. Dagb, & S. Shafira – THE CAUSE FOR HONEY BEE’S AVOIDANCE OF AVOCADO FLOWERS AND THE

Proceedings of the American Bee Research Conference 2010

  • Published in the American Bee Journal, June 2010

Download a .pdf of the 2010 ABRC proceedings.


The 2010 American Bee Research Conference was held January 14-15 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. This was a special joint conference between the American Association of Professional Apiculturists and the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists. The twenty fourth American Bee Research Conference will be held in conjunction with a joint meeting of the American Beekeeping Federation and the American Honey Producers …

Status Report on the Health of the US Honey Bee Industry

What you should know about the ‘honey bee crisis’

The following white paper titled 2013 Report on the National Stakeholder Conference on Honey Bee Health was released on May 3, 2013 from the The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

To view a PDF of the report visit: http://www.usda.gov/documents/ReportHoneyBeeHealth.pdf.

A press release for the 2013 Report on the National Stakeholder Conference on Honey Bee Health can be found here.


The following …