Aiming to advance the understanding of bees and beekeeping

ECT funding …supported the dissemination of information by completing the edition of the first pollen atlas of Peru and publishing the results of this study in an international journal. Thanks to the Eva Crane Trust, the palynology laboratory in Lima, Peru is ready to conduct more research!

Dr Rossana Paredes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru

Ethnobiological study of the interactions between stingless bees, honey and Amazonian people in Peru.

Without ECT's funding, it would not have been possible to collect such a large amount of data... I am very grateful for the funding. It has given me the opportunity to take my research in new and exciting directions

Dr Jérémy Froidevaux, University of Stirling

ARBEEB: Automatic Recognition of BumblebEE species and Behaviour from their buzzes

I want to deeply thank Eva Crane Trust for their support and the trust placed in me and this study. - Unveiling Meliponiculture: Decolonizing Maya Stingless Beekeeping in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico

Veronica Briseño Castrejon, University of Calgary.

Unveiling Meliponiculture: Decolonizing Maya Stingless Beekeeping in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico

The support provided by the Eva Crane Trust was crucial to the progress of our two-year research project, without which our goals would have been unachievable.

Prof. David Baracchi, University of Florence.

- Assessing the effects of microplastics on bee health, behaviour, and cognition.

Thanks to the funding provided by The Eva Crane Trust, I was able to push forward an experiment into the fourth year of my studies. This funding not only gave me the time and resources necessary to shape this work into an exciting chapter for my PhD thesis, but also lead me to publish the work in a high-impact journal: Scientific Reports.

Harriet Thomas, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Utilising the vibrational signature of a novel Varroa destructor behaviour as an indicator of mite presence within honeybee (Apis mellifera) brood cells.

We are immensely grateful for and honored by the support of the Trust in these experiments, which we feel reflect the joint interests in honey bee health and pollinator ecology epitomized by Eva Crane herself. As a postdoctoral researcher, the results have allowed me to build on my prior research in temperature-mediated interactions between bumble bee parasites and gut bacteria.

Dr Evan Palmer-Young USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, USA.

‘Sweat, bee!’: Interactive effects of temperature and gut microbiota on resistance to infection in honey bees.