Apiculture Bee
Newly-formed cooperative helps beekeepers in Afghanistan: (Thursday, February 05, 2009) Excellent results with a beekeeping project in the Afghan province of Takhar encourages Mission East to take a step further to help its 50 apiculture beneficiaries create a business enterprise. In 2008, Mission East decided to help families in Chaal improve their poor diets and household food security as part of a large-scale rural assistance project.
One of the components was the
Provision of beekeeping tools and training in order to enable vulnerable families to produce honey for family consumption All abuzz about learning to be a beekeeper (Thursday, February 05, 2009) The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey and the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.. After a day of meeting with expert entomologists and folks from around the metro area who raise bees, Im stung, so to speak.
I cannot think of a creature on the planet more special than the honey bee.
Bees killed by Neo-nicotinoids in expressed Maize sap ( Wednesday, February 4, 2009 ) New research by Prof. Vincenzo Girolami of the University of Padova in Italy shows Neonicotinoids in maize kill bees via water droplets. Highly toxic neo-nicotinoid insecticides such as Clothianidin and Imidacloprid were permitted for agricultural use in Germany, but only on the basis that bees would not be exposed to these substances.
It was argued that bees would
Not be poisoned because these pesticides would only be used for the coating of seeds – and safely buried underground. However, current research in the wake of the massive bee deaths in Germany after maize-sowing in the spring of 2008 gives serious cause for concern. Banning insecticides won’t save British bees ( Wednesday, February 4, 2009) Reversing the honeybee’s population decline is a complex matter, and stopping the use of neonicotinoid insecticides until they are shown to be safe to honeybees, part of a Co-op initiative, is over-reacting, according to the BCPC.
Threat to Swale’s bee colonies recognised by Defra ( Wednesday, February 4, 2009 ) A top honey producer has welcomed a £4.3 million increase in government funding for research to stop bee colonies from being wiped out, Yourswale reports. The Varroa virus has decimated colonies across the UK since it arrived on our shores about two decades ago. The reason for so many bees dying was only identified last year and although there are treatments for the virus, some strains are already becoming resistant Class promotes need for bees (Wednesday, February 4, 2009) Barry Harris welcomes wannabe beekeepers to school Feb. 10.
Founder and president of the Cape
Fear Regional Beekeepers Association, Harris hopes to promote beekeeping in the area. The association sponsors the class. Funds call to save vanishing bee colonies ( Tuesday, 3 February 2009) One in three of Northern Irelands honey bee colonies have vanished in the last year, it has been claimed.
UUP Agriculture spokesman Tom Elliott warned that more honey bees are predicted to vanish this spring unless funding is provided to beekeepers to investigate the cause. The call follows the announcement by Defra that an extra £4.3m has been made available to safeguard and research bee health in England.
Last year
Some beekeepers reported bee losses as high as 50% through Colony Collapse Disorder, in which bee colonies vanish without trace Ranchester beekeeper rents pollinators to California almond growers ( Monday, February 2, 2009) Clifford Reed remembers looking over the sweet clover-covered hills near Ranchester last spring and thinking, “This should be a great year for honey.” A strong dose of reality hit Reed once mites were discovered in his bee colonies. “I didn’t treat for mites and it cost me,” the owner of Tongue River Honey said.
He won’t make the same mistake this year. “I had to pull off 320 dead colonies,” Reed said. “With 25,000 to 30,000 bees per hive, that’s a lot of dead bees Banning insecticides will not save British bees ( Monday, February 2, 2009) Prohibiting suppliers of its own-brand fresh produce from using neonicotinoid insecticides until they are shown to be safe to honeybees is part of the new radical Plan Bee, launched by the Co-op last Wednesday (28 January), in an attempt to reverse the worrying decline in the British honeybee population. On the same day The Guardian reported that these chemicals are implicated in billions of honeybee deaths worldwide Making a beeline to a new parish ( Sunday 1st February 2009) HE is going to be a busy bee when he up sticks and moves to a new parish.
For the last six years a rectory garden
In a leafy Southampton suburb has been a hive of industry and a blessing in helping to keep colds and flu at bay.
The Rev John Owen, whose parish covers St Michael and All Angels, Bassett and North Stoneham, has been running such a successful bee colony that it has produced enough honey for local shops and the congregation.
Now the rector has the massive task of transferring his hives and about 120,000 bees because he is leaving the parish next month to take up a new appointment as Vicar of Steep, Froxfield and Privett in the Diocese of Portsmouth Uganda: Honey Production – Country Yet to Fully Realise Potential (28-01-2009) Kampala UGANDA has a production potential of over 500,000 metric tonnes of honey annually, but produces only 5,000 metric tonnes. Ugandan honey, if well produced, is rated as one of the best in the world. In Uganda, honey is produced in Bushenyi, Bugisu, Nakasongola, Kabarole and West Nile region
