Argentine Beekeepers' Magazine

(Espacio Apícola, October 18th, 2022) During the next INNOVAR 2022 contest, organized by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Argentine Government, a group of researchers from CONICET belonging to the National University of Tucumán and sponsored by the Miguel Lillo Foundation they will present this weekend a particular bee health monitoring system with their work on epidemiological and genetic studies of Apis mellifera in Drone Congregation Areas.

Beyond the curiosity that may cause that theme in the varied public that will visit the exhibition at the Tecnópolis Center between October 20 and 22 the theme and the applied techniques constitute another tool in the way to protocolize, each ever better, the production and selection of mated queen bees.

Mr Alberto Galindo Cardona, coordinator of this multi disciplinary team, made his first publications on "Landscape Analysis of the Drone Congregation Areas of the honey bee, Apis mellifera" 10 years ago in the Journal of Insect Science. From then to now, science and technology have been incorporated into what is now presented as a tool that, among other things, shows the genetic variability in each area studied and which is, without a doubt, a determining factor of the response opportunity of the bee colonies in front of changing demands of the environment.

4-minute illustrative video on YouTube.