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New Vita product to attract swarms
Vita (Europe) Ltd has unveiled a new swarm attractant product this weekend at the BBKA Spring Convention. Swarming poses beekeepers all sorts of challenges and this new product is designed to help attract swarms in search of a new home. Read more…
Bee photo competition
With the continuing success of the Vita Gallery, a free photo gallery for beekeepers, honeybee health company Vita (Europe) Ltd is launching a photography competition. Anyone can submit up to three photos relating to bees or beekeeping to try to win a cash prize, while at the same time contributing to the enormously popular Gallery (www.vita-europe.com) which is benefitting beekeepers across the globe. Read more…
New threat to European honeybees
A new threat to honeybees is spreading rapidly in France and may reach the UK within the next few seasons. The invading predator is the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax), and it has the power to destroy a honeybee colony within weeks. Vita (Europe) Ltd, the UK-based honeybee health company, plans to have a hornet trap ready by the end of this season.
Vita launches free photo library for bee presenters
Anyone giving talks about bees and beekeeping can now download images for their presentation from the Vita gallery at www.vita-europe.com. Vita (Europe) Ltd, the honeybee health specialist, has developed the free resource because of the increasing demand on beekeepers to give public talks. Read more…
Dr Jérôme Trouiller, biochemist and honeybee researcher, 1962-2009
In memory of our dear friend and colleague. It is with deep sorrow that we at Vita (Europe) Ltd report that our good friend and colleague, Dr Jérôme Trouiller, suddenly passed away during a vacation with his family.
Vita Research Awards help unscramble and combat the current honeybee crisis
A project to develop a new, green bio-control agent to combat the varroa mite that is decimating the world’s honeybee colonies has won the Vita 2009 Research Award. Meantime, the results of the Vita 2007 award have just been released providing further evidence that three viruses, almost certainly induced by the varroa mite, are implicated in honeybee losses across the globe. Read more…
The honeybee crisis: paradoxical findings deepen the mystery
Vita urges beekeepers to become more proactive to prevent bee deaths. Beekeeping practices must change to ensure that honeybees survive and thrive, says Dr Max Watkins of Vita (Europe) Ltd following one of the worst honey harvests in the UK and Northern Europe for many years. Although poor weather conditions may have badly affected the harvest an array of unexplained research findings indicates a more sinister and long-term challenge.
Top honeybee researcher Norberto Milani dies
Norberto Milani, Professor of Entomology at the University of Udine in Italy and a researcher whose work has made a huge impact upon the world of beekeeping has died at the age of 58. He was a world-renowned expert in entomology, honeybees, mites and pheromones.
Bee virus investigator wins Vita Research Award at Apimondia 2007
The 2007 Vita Research Award has been won by a Jordanian scientist, recognised for his study of honeybee viruses.
Dr Nizar Haddad, of Jordan’s National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension, was presented with the award at Apimondia 2007 in Melbourne, Australia. Read more…
British biotech enterprise becomes world’s premier honeybee health company within a decade
Vita (Europe) toasts its tenth anniversary by declaring “green war” on pests. Vita (Europe) Ltd, launched in 1997 with a single product, has now become the leading honeybee health specialist in the world with a range of products, subsidiaries in Italy and France, and a network of more than 60 international distributors.