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.