"Inside the Better-B hive" video series

Knock-powered real-time monitoring at the WUR apiaries

Finding the signature of resilient beehives, through automatic non-invasive measures

 

Video contributions

Nos laboratórios da Universidade de Coimbra estudam-se as abelhas: porquê? (in Portguese)

  • SIC Notícias
  • 20 May 2023
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Bzzz: abelhas em declínio? (in Portuguese)

  • Bíosfera, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
  • 11 May 2023
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Better-B stories

 

Project publications

Fourth newsletter

Third newsletter

 

Public events

Better-B public event

Better-B public event

 

Tools

Better-B varroa tool

  • Designed to help beekeepers across Europe choose the most effective local treatments for Varroa mite infestations.
  • To the Varroa tool

Floral resources tool

  • A tool designed to predict the daily production of nectar, sugars, and pollen for individual plant species.
  • To the Floral resource page
 

Citizen science

Better-B food sharing study

 

Scientific publications

1.
Verbinnen, G., De Smet, L., Henriques, D., Tytgat, J., Pinto, M. A. & de Graaf, D. C.
The diversity of insecticide target site mutations in Apis mellifera.
BMC Genomics 27, 446 (2026). doi:10.1186/s12864-026-12770-3. Archive: EuropePMC
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Pedrelli, C., Pietropaoli, M., Palomba, S., Barcáiztegui, C. M., Rodríguez Flores, M. S., Ordóñez, E., Girola, M., de Graaf, D. C. & Formato, G.
Performances of Selective Mechanical Traps for Autumn Control of the Invasive Asian Hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax in Western and Southern Europe.
Applied Sciences 16, 889 (2026). doi:10.3390/app16020889. Archive: Zenodo
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Public Deliverables

1.
Capela, N.
Better-B Deliverable D1.3 – Resource quality and forage selection.
(2025). https://www.better-b.eu/members/repository/Public/Better-B_D1.3.pdf.
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Ruffio, E.
Better-B Deliverable D3.6 – Hygrothermal model of empty hives.
(2025). https://www.better-b.eu/members/repository/Public/Better-B_D3.6.pdf.
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Better-B has received funding from the European Union, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10068544).

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, European Research Executive Agency (REA), SERI or UKRI. Neither the European Union nor the granting authorities can be held responsible for them.

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