Dennis vanEngelsdorp

Articles:

vanEngelsdorp, D., J. D. Evans, C. Saegerman, C. Mullin, E. Haubruge, B. K. Nguyen, M. Frazier, J. Frazier, D. Cox-Foster, Y. Chen, R. Underwood, D. R. Tarpy, and J. S. Pettis. 2009. Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study. PLoS ONE, 4: e6481. (Link)

 vanEngelsdorp, D., J. D. Evans, L. Donovall, C. Mullin, M. Frazier, J. Frazier, D. R. Tarpy, J. Hayes Jr, and J. S. Pettis. 2009. "Entombed Pollen": A new condition in honey bee colonies associated with increased risk of colony mortality. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 101: 147-149. (pdf)

Donovall L. R., and D. vanEngelsdorp. 2009 A Checklist of the Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Pennsylvania Journal of Kansas Entomological Society. In press.

Cox-Foster, D., and D. vanEngelsdorp. 2009. Solving the mystery of the disappearing bees. Scientific American: April 40-47. (Link to article)

vanEngelsdorp, D., S. Gebauer, R. Underwood. 2009. A modified Two-queen System: “Tower” Colonies Allowing for Easy Drone Brood Removal for Varroa Mite Control.  Science of Bee Culture 1(1): 1-4. (pdf)

 vanEngelsdorp, D., J. Hayes, Jr., R. M. Underwood, and J. Pettis. 2008. A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008. PLoS ONE 3: e4071. (Link)

G Palacios, J Hui, P L Quan, A Kalkstein, K S Honkavuori, A V Bussetti, S Conlan, J Evans, Y P Chen, D vanEngelsdorp, H Efrat, J Pettis, D Cox-Foster, E C Holmes, T Briese, W I Lipkin 2008 Genetic analysis of Israel Acute Paralysis Virus: distinct clusters are circulating in the United States. Journal of Virology 23: JVI.00251-08 (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp D. R. Underwood, and D. Cox Foster 2008 Flash fumigation of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies with formic and acetic acids for the control of Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae). Journal of Economic Entomology101(2) 256-264 (pdf)

 Torto, B, R. T. Arbogast, H. Alborn, A. Suazo, D, vanEngelsodorp, D. Boucias, J. T. Tumlinson, P. E. A. Teal. 2007. Composition of volatiles from fermenting pollen dough and attractiveness to small hive beetle Aethina tumida a parasite of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Apidologie 38, 380-389. (Link)

Cox-Foster D.L., Conlan S., Holmes E.C, Palacios G., Evans J.D., Moran N.A, Quan P-L., Briese T., Geiser D.M., Martinson V., vanEngelsdorp D., Kalkstein, A.L., Drysdale A, Hui J., Zhai J., Cui L, Hutchinson S, Simons J.F., Egholm M, Pettis J.S., Lipkin W.I.  2007. A metagenomic survey of microbes in honey bee colony collapse disorder. Science  318: 283-286. (pdf)

Torto, Baldwyn, Richard T. Arbogast, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Steven Willms, Dusti Purcell, Drion Boucias, James H. Tumlinson, Peter E. A. Teal. 2007 Trapping of Aethina tumida Murry (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Apis mellifera L. (hymenoptera: Apidae) Colonies with an In-Hive Baited Trap. Environmental Entomology 36(5):1018-1024. (pdf)

Arbogast, Richard T., Baldwyn Torto, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, and Peter E. A. Teal 2007 An Effective Trap and Bait combination for monitoring the Small Hive Beetle Aethina Tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Florida Entomologist 90 (2) 404-406. (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp, D., R. Underwood, D. Caron, J. Hayes, Jr. 2007 An Estimate of Managed Colony Losses in the Winter of 2006 - 2007: A Report Commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America. American Bee Journal 147 (7) 599-603. (pdf)

Underwood, R., D. vanEngelsdorp 2007 Colony Collapse Disorder: Have we seen this Before? Bee Culture 135(7) 13-18. (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp, D., 2003 Africianized Honey Bees, Apis mellifera scutelatta.  Reg. Hort. 29:16-17.

vanEngelsdorp, D., G .W. Otis, 2001. Field Evaluation of Nine Families of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) for Resistance to Tracheal Mites (Acarapis woodi (Rennie)). Canadian Journal of Entomology, 133(6):793-803. (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp, D., G .W. Otis, 2001.The Role of Cuticular Compounds in the Resistance of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) to Tracheal Mites (Acarapis woodi (Rennie). Experimental and Applied Acarology, 25(7):593-603. (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp, D., G .W. Otis.  2000. Application of a Modified Selection Index for Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidea). Journal of Economic Entomology (2000) 93(6): 1606 –1612. (pdf)

vanEngelsdorp, D., G .W. Otis. 2000 Comparison of Spring Pollen Collection by Honey  (Apis mellifera) Colonies of Buckfast and "Canadian" Stocks.”  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 2000, 131: 133-138 (pdf)

Select talks:

A plea for bees (Link)

 Other select coverage:

PBS Nature: Silence of the bees (Link)

Fortune Magazine: As bees go missing, a $9.3B crisis lurks. August 28, 2007. (Link)

The New Yorker: Stung: August 6, 2007 (Link)

Salon magazine: Hives among us. July 8, 2008 (Link)

Science Channels features podcast November 4 2008 (Link)