PoshBee Annual Newsletter 2022: Project Activities and Research Highlights

PoshBee's 2022 annual newsletter covers project activities from January to April, including a virtual AGM hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London, due to Omicron restrictions. The project showcased bee health monitoring via the Bee Health Card and mass spectrometry at EU Pollinator Week 2021. Research highlights include studies on agrochemical impacts on bees, training in Mons on bumblebee and solitary bee research, and FAIR data practices with four new abstracts published on EIP-AGRI. PoshBee launched a project insiders' webpage and an open research collection in the RIO journal. Video series detail lab experiments on pollen diets, pathogen analysis, and pesticide residue testing. Key findings cover lethal and sublethal effects of neonicotinoids, azoxystrobin, and sulfoxaflor on bees, as well as impacts of glyphosate and 'inert' ingredients. The project uses Poshbase for data sharing, validates a miniaturized method for 261 pesticides, and demonstrates MALDI IMS and automated assessment of solitary bee performance. PoshBee involves 43 partners across 14 countries and reached 1000 Twitter followers.