06/05/2025 - The Institute for Bee Research Hohen Neuendorf e.V. conducted the first genetic monitoring of German honey bees in 2024 with the support of beekeeping associations and societies. Results are now available.

05/19/2025 - Since 2018, the World Bee Day is celebrated worldwide on the birthday of the Slovenian Anton Janša (1734-1773), who is considered as the founder of modern beekeeping. This day reminds us of the importance of bees and other…

05/16/2025 - The Julius Kühn-Institute lists all commercially available beneficial invertebrates in Germany

04/28/2025 - At the end of 2023, volunteers from the wild bee monitoring program sampled nesting aids for eDNA analysis for the first time. The results of this analysis by the Thünen Institute are now available and have been presented for the…

04/01/2025 - How are bumblebees doing in the German agricultural landscape? Which species occur here and how are their distribution areas changing? Researchers at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity have been developing a nationwide…

03/28/2025 - Weed Day has been celebrated every year on March 28 since 2003. It reminds us that so-called weeds are more than just annoying plants.

03/01/2023 - A face-to-face meeting of the MonViA team was a long time coming. But on 9-10 March the time has come to stick our heads together at a workshop in Braunschweig.

06/14/2022 - On board of the MS Science in Braunschweig - Join the MonViA wild bee team in front of the booth on board to the nearby Okeraue to learn more about the pollinator monitoring.

06/07/2022 - Together with volunteers, one can monitor beneficial insects in agricultural landscapes - whether in orchards or in sugar beet cultivation. Register and join in via the new website on beneficial insect monitoring.

05/31/2022 - Within the testing phase of the monitoring concept "Weed Diversity", the occurrence and diversity of arable weeds are monitored on about 60 areas in Brandenburg and Lower Saxony.