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Media Highlight: Graduate student Daniel O'Neal

Posted by Stephanie Rogers on May 13, 2014 in News, Research

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Agricultural Campus graduate student Daniel O’Neal is examining the interaction of pesticide residues, Varroa mites and Nosema in honeybee colony stress.

Across Canada honeybees offer pollination services worth $2-billion annually, he told the Nova Scotia Beekeepers annual meeting. But the last several years have seen sporadically high losses of between 30-40 per cent of honeybees.

O’Neal surmised the reasons for the losses could possibly be pesticides, parasites or an interaction between the two.

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