RESEARCH

Best for Bees offers a wide array of honeybee and bumblebee research services to universities, farms, and companies.  We can assist with grant writing, research objectives, design, and approval processes.  Our team of experts provide research services to reach your objectives with pollinators and pollinator health. 

The Protectabee is brand new technology developed and tested by Best for Bees for delivery of bee health improvement powders directly into honey bee hives.  Currently in the Research and Development phase in a collaborative project with Peter Kevan's lab at the University of Guelph, MITACS, and The Weston Foundation. 

Assessment of honeybee colony health in Apivectoring project at Strom's Farm in Guelph, Ontario.  We collected samples to analyze larval mortality, photograph analysis of total population of colonies, and data collection on multiple hives to assess colony health for a joint project with the University of Guelph. Best for Bees can help with your colony health assessments for research. 

Best for Bees is providing assistance for grant applications, apiculture techniques, crop analysis, and microbiological preps in a joint project with the University of Guelph and Weston Foundation. 

Bumblebees were trained to use touchscreens in order to study memory at the University of Guelph.  Apiculture, data collection and analysis, and publication services were provided to the University of Guelph by Best for Bees. 

Best for Bees provides bumblebee pollination services.  2021 pollination services included haskap, raspberry, strawberry, and blackberry crops.  Useful for early crops that require pollination.