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Bayer CropScience opens facility dedicated to improving honey bee health

Bayer CropScience has opened its $2.4 million North American Bee Center, which aims to promote improved honey bee health, product stewardship and sustainable agriculture. The 6,000-sqare-foot center is located at the company's North American headquarters in Research Triangle Park. The center will complement the Eastern Bee Care Technology Stationin Clayton, N.C. and a Bee Care Center at the joint global headquarters campus of Bayer CropScience and Bayer Animal Health in Monheim, Germany. The North American Bee Care Center, part of the company’s $12 million investment in bee health in 2014, brings together some of the brightest minds in agriculture and apiology to develop comprehensive solutions for bee health. This includes entomologists and apiarists, graduate researchers and more.

The center houses a full laboratory with a teaching and research apiary, honey extraction and hive maintenance space; interactive learning center, and meeting, training and presentation facilities for beekeepers, farmers and educators, as well as office space for a full staff and graduate students. On-site honey bee colonies, pollinator-friendly gardens and a screened hive observation area serve to further education and collaboration that will foster significant improvement in honey bee health and stewardship measures and best management practices. The center supports scientific research and development and education of the public on honey bees’ integral role in agriculture. The center serves as a hub for premier technological, scientific and academic resources to protect and improve honey bee health and sustainable agriculture. Products and technology developed at the center will control parasitic mites in honey bee hives, help manage a healthy bees program, assess the safety of crop protection products to bees and much more.

For more information on the North American Bee Care Center, visit http://www.bayercropscience.us/our-commitment/bee-health.

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