The Eva Crane Trust is currently supporting a number of bee related projects around the world. Here is an overview of the various outreach projects, publications and academic research that is currently receiving financial support from the Trust.
- Assessing the effects of microplastics on bee health, behaviour, and cognition.
Prof. David Baracchi, University of Florence, Italy.
- Unveiling Meliponiculture: Decolonizing Maya Stingless Beekeeping in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Veronica Briseño-Castrejon, University of Calgary, Canada.
- BeeSTING: a new antiviral pathway in bees?
Dr Vincent Doublet, Uni of Ulm, Germany.
- ARBEEB: Automatic Recognition of BumblebEE species and Behaviour from their buzzes
Dr Jérémy Froidevaux, University of Stirling
- Investigating the accuracy of the transfer of information in the honeybee waggle dance.
Anna Hadjitofi, University of Edinburgh
- BOOK: Bees, Science and sex in the literature of the long nineteenth century.
Dr's Christopher Harrington & Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Tasmania.
- Ethnobiological study of the interactions between stingless bees, honey and the Amazonian people in Peru.
Dr Rossana Paredes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru.
- Can evolved volatiles be used for non-invasive pro-active surveillance and diagnosis of Apis mellifera hive health to combat infectious diseases?
Dr Ashley Roberts, University of Lincoln
- City bees, country bees: using eDNA to monitor pollinators, flower visitors, and pollination networks in a tropical landscape (Pilot study).
Dr. Alyssa Stewart, Mahidol University, Thailand.
- The use of RFID technology to track the dispersal of red mason bees, Osmia bicornis (synonym Osmia rufa) in commercial orchards.
Fiona Tainsh, University of Warwick.
- Assessing genomic differences between a rare and common bumblebee in Western Ireland: Implications for conservation strategies.
Lydia Bell Thompson, University College Dublin.
