{"id":5069,"date":"2024-03-20T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/?page_id=5069"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:03:38","slug":"new-publication-commercial-bumble-bee-best-management-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/2024\/03\/20\/new-publication-commercial-bumble-bee-best-management-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication &#8211; Commercial Bumble Bee Best Management Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Volume 13 Issue 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors <a href=\"mailto:laura.o.johnson@uvm.edu\">Laura Johnson<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:lisa.devetter@wsu.edu\">Lisa Wasko DeVetter<\/a>, and <a href=\"mailto:elainee@umn.edu\">Elaine Evans<\/a> recently published a guide that covers the use of queen excluders, how to protect colony health during pollination, and colony disposal after pollination to better inform decision making by growers using commercial bumble bee colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final.pdf\">Commercial Bumble Bee Best Management Practices (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final_Page_1-815x1024.png\" alt=\"snapshot of 2022 agriculture article\" class=\"wp-image-5070\" width=\"564\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final_Page_1-815x1024.png 815w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final_Page_1-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final_Page_1-768x965.png 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/03\/Queen-Excluder-draft_Final_Page_1.png 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n        <div id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top\" hidden aria-hidden=\"true\">\n            <a id=\"cahnrs-back-to-top-btn\" class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__btn\" href=\"#product-top\" aria-label=\"Back to top\">\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u2191<\/span>\n                <span class=\"cahnrs-back-to-top__label\">Back to top<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume 13 Issue 3 Authors Laura Johnson, Lisa Wasko DeVetter, and Elaine Evans recently published a guide that covers the use of queen excluders, how to protect colony health during pollination, and colony disposal after&amp;hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_external_link":"","_expiration_date":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/wam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}