The Canadian Bee Gut Project aims to improve our understanding of how the “good”, “bad”, and unknown (unculturable or yet-uncultured) microbes found in bees affect their health and disease outcomes, as well as overwintering survival in Canada.

Our goals:

• Coordinate a nationwide sampling of honeybees from diverse commercial Canadian operations and perform unbiased characterization of microbiomes to establish baseline microbiomes.
• Find previously uncharacterized honeybee-associated microbes which could be used for new microbial therapeutic strategies in honeybees.
• Explore the effects of varying honeybee microbiomes or microbial therapeutic strategies on honeybee social castes and behaviour.

Collaboration.

Dedication.

Innovation.