Pollinator health the focus of new chair, scholarship at U of G
June 15, 2016
From: Guelph Mercury
The farming history of an Ontario family and the memory of businessman Donald Pinchin is being honoured with a $1-million gift to the University of Guelph to help protect pollinators.
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Guzman is known for his research on honeybee diseases, especially his 2010 study that determined varroa mites are the main culprit behind mysterious die-offs of honeybee colonies in Ontario. About 35 per cent of the province’s bee colonies were destroyed from 2007 to 2010.
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