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The 2024 Spring Workshop of the Research Network of Sustainable Bee Breeding, the Task Force within COLOSS for Breeding and Conservation, will be held on March 13th, 2024 at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. It will follow after the Varroa control Task force workshop at Read More …

Sadly, this year our traditional Research Network of Sustainable Bee Breeding spring workshop cannot take place as a live event. Nonetheless, to stay in touch and enable scientific exchange among the breeding network, we invite you to join our online Read More …

Due to the pandemic, this year’s COLOSS annual conference and related workshops will be held virtually. The RNSBB virtual workshop will take place on Wednesday, Sept 30th 15:00 CEST. You can register for the Workshop here. Please note the STRICT Read More …

The next Joint Workshops of the Varroa Control, Survivors and Sustainable Bee Breeding Task Forces will be held on Feburary 18 – 22h at the Research Institute of Horticulture Apicultural Division in Pulawy, Poland. Three-days meeting for members of the Task Forces (TFs): Varroa control, Read More …

The next Joint Workshops of the Varroa Control and Sustainable Bee Breeding Task Forces will be held on January 20th to 24th at the Volcani Center of Agricultural Research Organization at Rishon LeZion, Israel. The submission of an abstract is recommended, but not required. The Read More …

The next RNSBB meeting will take place at the COLOSS conference in Ghent, Belgium, September 16-17, 2018. Topics to be discussed include: Update on screening for the SMR trait in European honey bees, planning future experiments and reports about ongoing Read More …

The next COLOSS/RNSBB workshop will take place in Zadar, Croatia, from February 28 to March 2, 2018. Topics discussed include: screening for the SMR trait in European honey bees, planning future experiments and reports about ongoing projects.  Registration deadline 31.01.1. Read More …

RNSBB_SMR-recapping_protocol_2017_09_11 Screening for low Varroa mite reproduction (SMR) and recapping in European honey bees[read more=’Read More’ less=’Read Less’] Coordination: Ralph Büchler, Cecilia Costa, Fanny Mondet, Nikola Kezic, Marin Kovacic Introduction In European honey bee subspecies usually 5-20% of the Varroa mites remain Read More …

The main topics of the meeting include the results of the VSH common experiment (season 2016), the presentation of results and discussion the Varroa reproduction paper and update and discussion of the Popular Bee Book project: “Sustainable bee breeding: why Read More …

The news of the death of Hermann Pechhacker came as a surprise and has left us mourning. Over the last few years, we had seen that Hermann had not recovered from an urgently needed operation as fast as he and Read More …