Published - 22 December 2022 By Nadine Chapman and Sam Walkom Plan Bee evaluations: what colonies, traits, and when? Plan Bee is Australia’s honey bee genetic improvement program. Participating bee breeders will perform colony evaluations and submit the data to the database. Once there is … Read More bee biosecurity code of practice, breeding, breeding objective, colony inspection, disease, EBV, pest, Plan bee, traits Breeding, Code of Practice, Pests and diseases, Plan Bee, Uncategorized
Published - 18 November 2022 By Nadine Chapman, University of Sydney 2021 Plan Bee survey In 2021, 109 beekeepers responded to a survey about queen replacement strategies, satisfaction with purchased queens, trait desirability, and attitudes to the Plan Bee honey … Read More breeding objective, Plan bee, queen bees, traits Breeding, Pests and diseases, Plan Bee, Pollination
Published - 11 October 2022 By Nadine Chapman, University of Sydney What does Plan Bee need to produce EBVs? Plan Bee is Australia’s honey bee genetic improvement program. This will provide bee breeders with Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs), a tool to aid with the … Read More breeding, EBV, pedigree, phenotype, Plan bee, queens, traits Breeding, Plan Bee
Published - 7 September 2020 By Nadine Chapman How is Plan Bee different from previous breeding programs? Our national honey bee genetic improvement program (Plan Bee) seeks to create a sustainable breeding program using innovative technologies to transform the performance of honey … Read More BLUP, breeding, database, estimated breeding values, genetics, honey levy, Plan bee, pollination, queen bees, traits Breeding, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases, Plan Bee, Pollination
