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Nebraska U helps Tokach expand his bee study
An opportunity encounter led Nebraska’s Rogan Tokach to a longtime ardour for honeybees.
Whereas sitting at a county truthful, the then-12-year-old from Abilene, Kansas, observed a beekeeper’s statement hive. His curiosity was piqued.
“At that time, I at all times knew bees had been necessary, however to not that extent,” Tokach stated.
A 12 months later, Tokach had his first hive and unknowingly began a profession path.
“I went again daily to attempt to discover the queen,” Tokach stated. “I made it right into a sport.”
Tokach started doing analysis and collaborating in 4-H gala’s. He bought jars of honey and donated the earnings, whereas incomes scholarships.
He earned an undergraduate diploma at Kansas State College and is at present a grasp’s scholar in entomology on the College of Nebraska–Lincoln. After incomes his undergraduate diploma, Tokach was desirous to work with honeybees professionally and was drawn to the school at Nebraska.
Tokach had beforehand labored as a summer time intern for the U.S. Geological Survey on a venture headed by Autumn Good, who had lately been employed by Nebraska U as an assistant professor.
“I had additionally heard her spouse, Dr. (Judy) Wu-Good, communicate a number of instances at completely different beekeeping occasions,” he stated. “Each had been already pretty well-known inside beekeeping circles though they had been each comparatively unknown to UNL.
“I reached out to them, excited for the chance to doubtlessly enter as a graduate scholar. Moreover, Dr. Wu-Good’s Ph.D. work with pesticides was very attention-grabbing to me, and I hoped to work extra in that subject.”
Tokach has had a hands-on studying expertise at Nebraska. He has studied many elements of honeybees, together with what’s affecting their total success and failure, and is working to see the place his analysis can have essentially the most impression.
“I might say coming to Nebraska was by means of these connections and pursuits with Drs. Good and Wu-Good,” Rogan stated. “After I visited the Bee Lab, they appeared excited to have me there and went by means of a number of the analysis they had been at present engaged on. I assumed the Bee Lab was an incredible place, and I used to be taken with persevering with my training and studying from them.”
This summer time, Tokach has been busy doing subject work, visiting a number of hives throughout the state. He hatches bees, raises them and research how two completely different environments, one in every of which is polluted with pesticides, impression employee bee behaviors and the general inhabitants.
Starting in 2015, AltEn, an ethanol plant in Mead, started processing pesticide-treated seed that was not viable to plant. That very same 12 months, the NU Bee Lab began seeing colony failure at its apiary areas in and across the close by Jap Nebraska Analysis and Extension Middle, a website the place they’d efficiently stored bees for extra 30 years. The plant has since been shut down. Nevertheless, the world across the plant nonetheless exhibits large-scale environmental air pollution.
“My analysis focuses on the colony impression that these honeybees are experiencing,” Tokach stated. “I’m monitoring honeybee habits to see how the bees’ actions and well being within the space examine to these at my management website.
“I’m monitoring to see how the positioning impacts queens within the surroundings, in addition to the employees. If staff present accelerated growing older, an issue that may happen when uncovered to pesticides, that may have detrimental total impacts on colony features and result in colony failure.”
And, Tokach has been doing his personal work with a bee lab staff, alternating between observing the queen bee and employee bees’ behavioral tracks.
Upon incomes his grasp’s diploma in December, Tockach plans to pursue a doctoral diploma at Auburn College with a continued concentrate on honeybee well being. He stated he wish to proceed his profession within the Midwest.
“I hope to contribute analysis that may assist bees ultimately,” he stated.
One more win.
Nebraska softball dominated Southeastern Louisiana from start to finish Saturday in the winners bracket of the Baton Rouge Regional, getting the run-rule victory in five innings,14-1. The Huskers improve to 41-13 while the Lions fall to 49-15.
NU jumped out early with a three-run homer from Hannah Camenzind in the opening frame. SLU got an RBI single from Nebraska native Cydnee Schneider in the bottom half of the frame.
After neither side could work a run in the second, Nebraska broke the game open. Bella Bacon knocked an RBI double and Camenzind scored on a wild pitch. Then, with bases loaded and two outs, Ava Kuszak launched a grand slam to cap off an seven run inning.
The Huskers kept piling on in the fourth. Jordy Bahl and Samantha Bland hit back-to-back solo home runs. Bahl’s homer was her third of the regional and tied the school record for home runs in a season..
In the circle, Bahl was again pulled after just 3.0 innings to preserve her energy for the next day. The Big Ten Player and Pitcher of the Year allowed one run on one hit, while walking two and striking out three. Camenzind pitched the final 2.0 innings, sitting down the Lions 1-2-3 in both frames.
Southeastern Louisiana will next face the winner of the elimination game between host and No. 10 national seed LSU and UConn. Nebraska will take on whichever team remains after today in the regional final Sunday at 2 p.m. CDT.
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Jordy Bahl's two-homer day powers Nebraska softball to run rule win over UConn in NCAA Regional
BATON ROUGE, La. (WOWT) – Jordy Bahl homered twice and was spotless in three innings of work in Nebraska’s 10-2 NCAA Tournament win over UConn Friday.
The victory puts Nebraska in the winner’s bracket of the Baton Rogue Regional, where they will face the winner of LSU and Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday at 12:00pm.
Bahl began the Huskers scoring, drawing a bases loaded walk that forced Bacon home from third. After an Ava Kuszak groundout scored Ava Bredwell, Olivia DiNardo cracked a two-run single to make it 4-0 Nebraska.
In the bottom of the third, Bahl crushed a 1-0 pitch over the centerfield wall for a three-run homer to break the game open at 7-0. The home run marked the Papillion native’s 20th of the season, making her the fourth ever NCAA player to have 20+ wins in the circle and 20+ home runs at the plate in the same season.
It didn’t take long for her to get her 21st. In the bottom of the fifth, Bahl cracked a solo homer that made it 8-2 Nebraska.
In the circle, Bahl struck out three over three hitless innings. Kylee Magee picked up the win for the Huskers, tossing three frames while surrendering the lone blemish to UConn in the form of a Cat Petteys two-run homer.
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NORTH BEND, Neb. (KMTV) — Bagged pumps at gas stations and social media posts left us wondering about a fuel shortage in Nebraska. We set out to learn more.
- We drove from Omaha to North Bend, checking gas stations on the way.
- We found several pumps with bags on them and other stations operating normally.
- Doug Bartek, a farmer in Wahoo, says the fuel shortage impacts his operation.
WATCH MOLLY’S STORY BELOW
Nebraska Fuel Shortage: A look at gas stations across our neighborhoods
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
Everyone is on the move.
We drove from Omaha to North Bend, checking gas stations on the way. Several pumps had bags on them, but many other stations were operating normally.
Reporter Molly Hudson talked to Doug Bartek, a third-generation farmer in Wahoo, last month. Thursday, she checked in to see how the fuel shortage impacts him.
“The thing that’s kind of complicated it and made it worse is the way the spring planting is going. There has been really not much for rain, so farmers have just kind of kept going and, you know, kept using fuel all the time and then plus, it has been so dry; there has been some irrigation going on, so that just creates more demand for it and just kind of compounds the problem,” Bartek said.
Earlier this week, a regional federal waiver on service hours was put in place through June 30 for drivers hauling fuels in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
The declarationsays the fuel shortages are, quote, “resulting from unexpected increased demand for the spring planting season coupled with refinery conversion to summer blends, pipeline maintenance in key supply corridors, and outages at terminals.”
A Casey’s employee told Molly they typically put bags over the pumps when they aren’t working properly. Molly called a communications person for Casey’s to learn more, but did not hear back Thursday evening.
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