tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19680509285175869192024-03-13T23:39:23.637-07:00Beekeeping For BeginnersBeekeeping For BeginnersBeekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-21888591676341517202019-11-27T03:21:00.000-08:002019-11-27T05:44:02.403-08:00Fund ReleaseAttn: There is a fund to be processed on your name,kindly respond back for more details, Gerald Jones, Email: geraldjones064@gmail.com Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-18697003599734443272017-10-13T07:28:00.001-07:002017-10-13T07:28:44.395-07:00Last Opportunity* Background to Beekeeping - Start with Why - Discount ends tomorrow<!-- --> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 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bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Hi There,<br> <br> This is a friendly reminder that I have one more day in my launch promotion. 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class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Have you ever wanted a good overview of bees and beekeeping worldwide?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Have you ever wanted a broader understanding of the many benefits of bees and beekeeping?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Have you ever been interested in starting a small scale beekeeping enterprise?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Do you want to learn the one key step to becoming a beekeeper?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Have you ever wanted a better understanding of the honey trade?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Do you have a friend or family member who might be interested in starting beekeeping but doesn't understand just how good a hobby beekeeping is?</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Are you lost in the detail of how to do beekeeping but have never reflected on the big picture – the why of beekeeping?</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 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border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6">If you answered yes to any of the above questions I'm inviting you to join my new </span><strong style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6">'Background to Beekeeping – Start with WHY'</strong><span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6"> course which has just launched on Udemy! The early reviews have been great.</span></h3> <br> <strong>Today, I'm offering Lifetime access to the course for 75% off. Be sure to take advantage of this discount while it lasts (</strong><strong>through Saturday 14<sup>th</sup> October)! Here is where you can get your 75% off discount:</strong><br> <br> >> <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=ca2c9b553e&e=e6beb6e12a" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">https://www.udemy.com/background-to-beekeeping/?couponCode=LAUNCH75</a><br> <br> <strong>In this course, we'll be covering: </strong> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Learn about bees and beekeeping around the world</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The current plight of bees, why they are in decline and what you can do about it.</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Why beekeeping is such a wonderful activity</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The many benefits of bees and beekeeping…..</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The broad approaches to beekeeping – you have a choice!</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The history of beekeeping</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">An overview of the international honey trade</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">About bee stings – whether we like it or not that is part of beekeeping so we must acknowledge and understand. Once you understand about bee stings then you won't fear. Fear goes away!</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Where you can go to get further information on beekeeping….</li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Finally you will learn the one key step/next action on your journey to becoming a beekeeper.</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <br> I put my best teaching methods to use in this course, so you'll learn through a combination of video lessons delivered by me, real life examples, quizzes to check your progress, and supplemental material.<br> <br> Look forward to seeing you in the course. 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width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h1 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;"><span style="color:#000000">The Sad Decline of Bees Worldwide</span></h1> <p style="text-align: left;margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><span style="color:#000000">When I grew up in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s honeybees, and all bees, were much more common. We always had bees nesting in the roof of our house. I would marvel every September when the drone bees were thrown out of the nest in the roof. The drones would be crawling all over the ground and I would play with them. There were bees in a number of trees on our farm and I remember as a boy throwing stones at the entrance to the nest in the tree and running away. As a boy that was always fun!<br> We would frequently see bees swarming during the summer and the loud buzzing and excitement of a swarm was common. As a child I would stand in the middle of the swarming bees and marvel. Bees were a definite part of our summers in County Laois and we were not even beekeepers at that time. I later got into bees but as a young child I remember bees and the frenetic hum of bees on warm summer days being just a part of the natural order of things.<br> Sadly that has all changed in a few short years. I was away from Ireland living in Kenya between 1993 and 2008 and the beekeeping world had changed drastically by the time I had returned. I remember when I came back to live in Ireland looking at flowers such as clover during the summer and not seeing any bees. That filled me with sadness. There are very few wild colonies of honeybees left – most having been wiped out by varroa mites. Varroa mites were discovered in Ireland in 1998. To see a swarm of bees now is rare enough. Do our children get to experience the beauty of bees anymore? Apart from varroa and associated diseases we also have constant ongoing intensification of our agriculture which may have resulted in increased yields of agricultural products but has not been bee or pollinator friendly. We once had meadows which were a wonderful mix of flowering plants providing forage for bees. Meadows have been ploughed up now and replaced with hybrid grass seeds such as perennial ryegrass. You look at a field now and there is nothing for bees to forage on. I have heard this described as 'green concrete' or also as a 'green desert'. Another problem is that hedges are being removed to make way for larger fields. <br> <br> <strong>Ireland:</strong><br> According to the National Biodiversity Data Centre one third of Ireland's 101 bee species are now under threat of extinction. Two species of bees have already become extinct. This is in a country which is proud of it's natural landscape and it's green food image. A national pollinator plan aims to tackle the problem.<br> <br> <strong>United Kingdom (UK)</strong><br> <br> In the UK there are around 250 species of bees. Just like in Ireland, sadly bees are under threat. Since 1900, they have lost around 20 species of bee in the UK alone - and a further 35 are at risk. There has been a drastic loss of 97% of UK wildflower meadows since the second world war.<br> <br> <strong>North America</strong>: <br> <br> A recent report by the Center for Biological Diversity (Kopec et al., 2017) showed that more than 700 North American bee species are headed toward extinction. This is very sad and very worrying. In 2016 seven species of yellow faced bees, native to Hawaii, were put on the endangered list. In 2017 the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) was listed as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection.<br> <br> <strong>Worldwide</strong><br> <br> Pollinator decline is a global trend. A recent major global assessment suggested that about 40% of invertebrate pollinator species (such as bees and butterflies) are facing extinction (see IPBES, 2016). That statistic is truly shocking considering the importance of bees in pollinating our food crops.<br> <br> <strong>What can we do?</strong><br> <br> I believe that one way we can tackle the problem and create more awareness on the plight of our bee populations around the world is by having more beekeepers in the world. From my research work with the </span><a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=43864acb6f&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#000000">African Beekeeping Resource Centre</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> (ABRC) I have learned that beekeepers are great environmentalists and at the forefront of conservation (you can download the ABRC research report for free </span><a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=f850687ac0&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#000000">here</span></a><span style="color:#000000">). Therefore the more beekeepers we have in the world then the more people who will be aware of the sad plight of bees and be willing to speak and advocate for the conservation of bees. This is not just about bees, by helping to conserve bees we are also helping to protect the future of humanity.</span><br> <br> <font color="#000000">Let us all work together to make more people aware of the wonderful benefits of bees and beekeeping. Together we can be a strong and united voice for our wonderful bees before it is too late and many more species become extinct.</font><br> <br> <font color="#000000">Tom Carroll, PhD</font><br> <font color="#000000">October 2017</font><br> <br> <strong>References</strong><br> <br> <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=20fdcefd3c&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">IPBES (2016): Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production. S.G. Potts, V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca, H. T. Ngo, J. C. Biesmeijer, T. D. Breeze, L. V. Dicks, L. A. Garibaldi, R. Hill, J. Settele, A. J. Vanbergen, M. A. Aizen, S. A. Cunningham, C. Eardley, B. M. Freitas, N. Gallai, P. G. Kevan, A. Kovács-Hostyánszki, P. K. Kwapong, J. Li, X. Li, D. J. Martins, G. Nates-Parra, J. S. Pettis, R. Rader, and B. F. Viana (eds.). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany. 36 pages.</a><br> <br> <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=4ee3fec96a&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Kelsey Kopec & Lori Ann Burd (2017) 'POLLINATORS in Peril, A systematic status review of North American and Hawaiian native bees' Center for Biological Diversity</a><br> <br> The All Ireland Pollinator Plan<br> <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=302c29c65b&e=e6beb6e12a" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/projects/irish-pollinator-initiative/all-ireland-pollinator-plan/</a><br> <br> Photo: Credit to <a data-rapid_p="29" data-track="attributionNameClick" href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=1c011cdc3a&e=e6beb6e12a" title="Go to Luca Biada's photostream" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #00ADD8;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Luca Biada</a> (CC BY 2.0)</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnImageBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnImageBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 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9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="18" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #404040;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-size:24px"><strong>COMING SOON: A New Online Beekeeping Course</strong></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if gte mso 9]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" 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src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b103952837c6a478be2490c2/images/a42cec2e-e9a6-4afb-812a-97f76637a46c.jpg" width="564" style="max-width: 1920px;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;vertical-align: bottom;" class="mcnImage"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mcnTextContent" valign="top" style="padding: 9px 18px;color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;" width="546"> New Online Course Launching Next Week </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h3 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #444444;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 22px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:18px">Next week I am launching my new online course 'Background to Beekeeping - Start with Why'. The objective of the course is to demonstrate what a wonderful activity beekeeping is and to convince more people to take up beekeeping. </span><br> <br> <strong>Course Content:</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn about bees and beekeeping around the world</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn about the current plight of bees, why they are in decline and what you can do about it.</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Understand why beekeeping is such a wonderful activity and the many benefits of bees and beekeeping</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn the broad approaches to beekeeping – you have a choice!</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn the history of beekeeping</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Get an overview of the international honey trade</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn about bee stings – whether we like it or not that is part of beekeeping.</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Learn where you can go to get further information on beekeeping….</span></li> <li style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color:#000000">Finally learn the one key step/next action on your journey to becoming a beekeeper.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">I will send further details on the course next week including a special launch discount code (the cost of the course during the launch will be €15 reduced from €60). Thanks and talk to you next week, Tom.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <![endif]--> <tbody class="mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <td align="center" valign="top" "> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" class="mcnBoxedTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding-top: 9px;padding-left: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-right: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="18" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextContentContainer" width="100%" style="min-width: 100% !important;background-color: #404040;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #F2F2F2;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;text-align: center;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;line-height: 150%;"> If you find the contents of this newsletter useful please share with friends/like on social media etc. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if gte mso 9]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; 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Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-76912694123260094762017-06-07T08:24:00.001-07:002017-06-07T08:24:43.821-07:00Beekeeping Lessons from the Field - Kenya and Uganda<div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage"><div itemprop="publisher" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><meta itemprop="name" content="Apiconsult"><link itemprop="url" content="http://www.apiconsult.com"></div><div itemprop="about" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer"><link itemprop="image" href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b103952837c6a478be2490c2/images/91b81f6d-8267-4e8c-991a-6a0df06ccd08.gif"></div></div> <center> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin: 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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #808080;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h4 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #999999;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 20px;font-style: italic;font-weight: normal;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;"> </h4> <h1 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #222222;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 40px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 150%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: center;">Lessons from the field: Building from field experience to improve support for beekeeping in Kenya and Uganda - <br> Project Report.</h1> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if 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collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" valign="middle" width="24" class="mcnFollowIconContent" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=1651f850b3&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/outline-light-facebook-48.png" style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline: none;text-decoration: none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" height="24" width="24" class=""></a> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td align="center" valign="top"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" 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26px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Apiconsult News, October 2016</h1> <p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">I have been busy over the past number of months assisting the African Beekeeping Resource Centre (ABRC) on their project 'Lessons from the Field'. The project aims to learn from top beekeepers in Kenya and Uganda about what makes them good beekeepers under local conditions. The project is also looking at beekeeping projects and what lessons can be learned to make future projects better. There is a problem in that beekeeping projects are many but nobody stops to see if they actually helped beekeepers effectively. Bee projects come and go all the time but we, as development practitioners, are not good at sharing the lessons. In particular the lessons of failure when it happens. Reports always talk up projects and everything seems to go smoothly and beekeepers raise incomes and sell lots of honey. Nothing bad ever happens such as when honey yields are very low, hives are mostly empty and defensive bees attack and kill livestock for example. Project implementers need to impress their donors and so have to make their work look as good as possible. The problem with that is that we are destined to repeat mistakes over and over as new projects are started and fail to learn from past mistakes because problems were not documented or shared. <br> <br> Anyway enough of my rant about beekeeping projects! I have had the privilege of visiting some really wonderful and inspiring beekeepers in East Africa over the past 12 months. Two things have struck me. <br> The first is just how good beekeepers are at conservation. You will find invariably that beekeepers are at the heart of conservation efforts in their local communities. They advocate locally to conserve indigenous vegetation and to plant trees in their communities. Many beekeepers I visited had tree nurseries and either sold tree seedlings or gave them away for free. <br> The second thing that stood out for me was just how entrepreneurial many beekeepers are. Some of the best beekeepers have been able to generate multiple sources of income from their beekeeping and don't only rely on honey sales. Many add value to their honey, sell wax products, propolis medicine, stingless bee honey, sell bees, sell bee equipment, bee tree seedlings, provide training services and charge to facilitate groups of people who come to see their farms. Some beekeepers also charge to remove bees out of peoples homes. One very successful Kenyan beekeeper told me that when he gets up in the morning he thinks of beekeeping as his job and he goes to work! That is the kind of dedication you need to be a successful beekeeper.<br> <br> It has been an absolute privilege for me to have had the opportunity to visit and meet such wonderful and inspiring people.<br> ABRC will be communicating their project findings in the coming months and I will keep you updated on their progress. <br> <br> You can learn more from the ABRC Facebook page <a href="http://apiconsult.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b103952837c6a478be2490c2&id=24f0c1ca3f&e=e6beb6e12a" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">https://www.facebook.com/African-Beekeeping-Resource-Centre-912134962176016/</a> . </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!--[if mso]> </td> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> </tr> </table> <![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnDividerBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;table-layout: fixed !important;"> <tbody class="mcnDividerBlockOuter"> <tr> <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width: 100%;padding: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <table class="mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width: 100%;border-top-width: 2px;border-top-style: solid;border-top-color: #EAEAEA;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <span></span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- <td class="mcnDividerBlockInner" style="padding: 18px;"> <hr class="mcnDividerContent" style="border-bottom-color:none; border-left-color:none; border-right-color:none; border-bottom-width:0; border-left-width:0; border-right-width:0; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:0;" /> --> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> <!--[if mso]> <table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <![endif]--> <!--[if mso]> <td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;"> <![endif]--> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%;min-width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="100%" class="mcnTextContentContainer"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" class="mcnTextContent" style="padding-top: 0;padding-right: 18px;padding-bottom: 9px;padding-left: 18px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;word-break: break-word;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"> <h1 style="display: block;margin: 0;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 26px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">Africanized Bees - I Need Your Help!</h1> <br> One of the things I have always been interested in is beekeeping in the Americas with Africanized bees. In the 1950s queen bees were taken from East and South Africa in order to breed a better bee for the tropical conditions of Brazil. To cut a long story short these African bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) escaped into the wild and essentially dominated the European bees that were being used in South America at the time. Despite hybridisation with European bees the African Apis mellifera scutellata kept their characteristic defensive behaviour and remained essentially African. Over the years these Africanized bees spread up through south and central America and into the United States. At some point the media dubbed these bees 'Killer' bees. The name is apt is some ways as they are very defensive and do kill livestock and sometimes people in the Americas and Africa although in Africa cases are not well documented.<br> <br> <strong>How You Can Help!</strong><br> <br> I always wanted to visit and spend some time in Brazil or another country where research is being conducted on Africanized bees and in particular Africanized bee management for honey production. A sharing of ideas between the two continents would be very useful and in particular what lessons could be learned for beekeepers in Africa working with the same defensive bees. <br> <br> As part of a Post Doctoral Fellowship application I have a potential opportunity to spend a number of months in Brazil or another country in the Americas which has Africanized bees. I want to learn husbandry practices for Africanized bees so that I can share them through my work with beekeepers in Africa. What I seek is a host organisation and mentor. The organisation could be a bee research institute, university or bee training/extension organisation. My visit would be fully funded. <br> If you work for such an organisation or have any suggestions on which organisation/person I should get in touch with please let me know at <a href="mailto:tcarroll@apiconsult.com" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">tcarroll@apiconsult.com</a> . 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My apologies for not being in touch for some time. </div><div> </div><div>I have been living in Ireland for the past number of years having moved back here with my family from Kenya. I still however have my bees and apiary at Nakuru and travel back regularly to Kenya to check on my bees and visit beekeepers. I am involved in development work and travel back and forth to Africa regularly. </div><div><br></div><div>I am also keeping bees here in Ireland and the differences between my two apiaries is interesting! Yesterday I was out at the Irish apiary with my local bee club for a number of hours during the day and didn't even get one sting! What a difference from my Kenyan bees and apiary. </div><div>I think this is where a lot of confusion comes from in beekeeping in Africa. If you read a beekeeping book from Europe or America it may tell you to check your bees every 7-9 days or so to break down queen cells to prevent swarming. Working with my bees in Africa that would simply not be workable! The bees are too defensive. Good beekeeping is all about coming up with appropriate management for the bees and taking account of the circumstances you are working in. As a beekeeper you must start where you are and learn/understand what equipment and bee management practices are appropriate for your particular circumstances. </div><div>The African Beekeeping Resource Centre (ABRC), a Kenyan registered NGO of which I am a founding member, is working to document/discern the most appropriate beekeeping practices for Africa. ABRC is currently talking to some of the best beekeepers in Kenya to document what they know and do which makes them successful beekeepers. This knowledge will be shared with other beekeepers in Eastern Africa so that they can maximise the potential of their beekeeping enterprises and not be confused by bee management practices designed for different bees and circumstances. </div><div><br></div><div>I invite you to read more about the work of ABRC below. </div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks and best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Carroll, May 5th 2015</div><div><br></div><div>Please like Apiconsult on Social Media and Share with your friends: </div><div><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9325d7128c/6118123233/5593ce6629" id=""><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/9325d7128c/ceea0cb386/library/Facebook.jpg" alt="Facebook" title="Facebook" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="25" height="25" style="line-height: 1.5; width: 25px; height: 25px;"></a><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9325d7128c/6118123233/e955294f41">F</a></span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9325d7128c/6118123233/1bc571ca57" style="font-size: 16px; 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width: 75px; height: 75px;" title="ABRC-6_finals-03250x250" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0"> </div> </td> <td width="342" align="left" valign="top" > <div style="clear: both; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; background-color: transparent"> The African Beekeeping Resource Centre (ABRC) is a not-for-profit South based NGO registered in Kenya working on beekeeping development across Africa researching, educating and lobbying for knowledge and environments that will: maximise bee husbandry, increase the trade in bee products, protect and enhance bee forage and habitat, and find ways to use beekeeping and honey hunting for wider benefit.<div><br></div><div>Please see the ABRC website for further information:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9325d7128c/6118123233/19f45642b1">http://africanbeekeeping.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>ABRC is also on Facebook and Twitter. <span style="line-height: 1.5;">If you like what ABRC are working on please Like and Share with your friends on social media to promote the work of ABRC to develop beekeeping in Africa. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Thank you!</span></div><div><br></div><div>Please see links below:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9325d7128c/6118123233/8f26c114bc"><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/9325d7128c/41d43a1344/library/Facebook.jpg" alt="Facebook" title="Facebook" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="25" height="25" style="line-height: 1.5; 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line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; color: #1a1a1a"> Knowledge is the Key</div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a"> Want to know how to develop African beekeeping?</div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #333333"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Africa is a big and diverse continent. According to the website Africacheck.org there are 56 de facto states in Africa including Somaliland. Geographically the continent has an area of 30,220,000 km². That is bigger than Europe, China and the USA put together (29,167,308 km²). The continent covers about one fifth of the total land area on the planet. According to Google, in 2011 there were just over 1 billion people living on the continent of Africa and a majority of the world's poorest countries today are found in Africa.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are many different cultures in Africa and according to the United Nation's agency, UNESCO the number of languages spoken in Africa varies between 1,000 and 2,500 depending on different estimates and definitions. Many of these cultures have their own traditional beekeeping knowledge and practices. The climate and vegetation of Africa ranges from desert to savannah grassland to jungle to sub-arctic conditions.......... </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9fd2ca8c3d/6118123233/f47c66e547/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Click%20here%20to%20read%20the%20full%20article&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20January%202013">Click here to read the full article</a></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p></div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #474747; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black"> </div> <br /><br /> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; color: #1a1a1a"> Bee Book Update Planned</div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a"> A Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping in Kenya</div> <div style="clear: both; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: transparent; padding: 0; width: 100%; border-style: none; border-width: 0; border-color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #333333"> <div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/9fd2ca8c3d/3457d6a4ab/library/Bee_book.jpg" alt="Bee_book" title="Bee_book" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="167" height="239" style="width: 167px; height: 239px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#474747"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">I am planning to develop a second edition of the above book which is currently available for free download from the Apiconsult website. Please find the book by </span></font><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9fd2ca8c3d/6118123233/c5590dc578/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=clicking%20here&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20January%202013" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 1.5;">clicking here</a><font color="#474747"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">. </span></font><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 1.5;">The target date for completion of the updated book is the end of June 2013. </span><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 1.5;">I would like to add an additional chapter to the book on frame hive beekeeping in Kenya and generally update the contents. For example varroa mites were discovered in Kenya after the book was written and information on varroa needs to be included. The book will also be redesigned and made more digital friendly to ensure it is easily read accross a range of devices such as PCs, tablet computers and smartphones. The updated book will remain on the Apiconsult site as a free download for all beekeepers </span><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 1.5;">across</span><span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); line-height: 1.5;"> Africa. If you would like to support the update of the book <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/9fd2ca8c3d/6118123233/3d7a8a78d0">please support this project on Indiegogo</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you have any other suggestions on how the book can be improved I would also like to hear from you.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thank you for your support,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tom Carroll, PhD</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Email: tcarroll@apiconsult.com</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><br></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373//9fd2ca8c3d/3457d6a4ab/library/beekeeper_with_comb.jpg" alt="beekeeper_with_comb" title="beekeeper_with_comb" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="179" height="134" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); 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padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 24px; color: #1a1a1a; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Varroa in Africa</div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> What is the impact on beekeeping?</div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Varroa destructor (formerly Varroa jacobsoni) is a very serious parasite of honeybees (Apis mellifera). The mite is somewhat harmless on its natural host, the Eastern honeybee, (Apis cerana) however the varroa mite has crossed onto Apis mellifera and has spread from Asia throughout most of the world. In 2009 Varroa was discovered in Kenya by researchers from the US and Kenya and additional surveying across Kenya, in Tanzania and Uganda showed that Varroa is wide-spread throughout Kenya and present in Tanzania. It is not clear yet what impact varroa is having on bee populations. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><b>What should beekeepers do?</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Mary Ann Frazier of Penn State University and her ICIPE, Nairobi colleagues are strongly advising beekeepers NOT to employ chemical controls. In other places (US, Canada, Europe) chemical controls have kept bees alive in the short run but have resulted in pesticide accumulation in wax and the inability of the bees to develop resistance to the mites on their own. In Ireland for example, where mites were first discovered in 1998, the mites are now developing resistance to the chemical treatments for Varroa. According to Mary Ann in South Africa where chemicals were not employed, "<i>the bees appear to have developed resistance in 7-8 years and are now considered a minor pest"</i>. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Perhaps beekeepers have observations concerning Varroa, and the health of honey bees over the past 10 years in Kenya and other African countries where bees are infected by Varroa. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Have you seen Varroa in your hives or do you have any views to share on bee health in Africa? Please post your comments to the Varroa thread on the Apiconsult website: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/f5237c85b1/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=C&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20June%20%2F%20July%202012">C</a><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/2161380052/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=lick%20here&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20June%20%2F%20July%202012" id="">lick here</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><b>Mites of Safari</b></p></div><div>You are welcome to download Chris Davey's article which gives a detailed overview on Varroa in Africa (provided here with the kind permission of the author). The article was first published in the April 2010 issue of the UK journal, Beekeepers Quarterly. <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/5d0590354f/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Click%20here&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20June%20%2F%20July%202012">Click here</a></div></div> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-size: 12px; color: #474747; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </div> <br /><br /> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 24px; color: #1a1a1a; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Learning from Failure</div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 16px; color: #1a1a1a; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <span style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; ">Why we need to embrace our disappointments</span> </div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/883adbcca1/23e3033f0b/library/abandonedhives.JPG" alt="Abandoned beehives" title="Abandoned beehives" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="191" height="144" style="width: 191px; height: 144px; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">There is a very interesting video on the TED website about the need to learn from failure in development projects. I have embedded the video on the Apiconsult website – <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/e7da1f00dc/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=click%20here%20to%20watch&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20June%20%2F%20July%202012">click here to watch</a>. The video really grabbed my attention because I immediately saw the parallels between beekeeping development in Africa and what David talks of in relation to water projects in Malawi. As human beings we have a natural tendency to fear admitting mistakes. What will our donors think? As David says, how can we go back and tell the donor "<i>well actually the money you so generously donated was wasted</i>" hmm….. That wouldn't go down too well! So the natural reaction is to gloss over failure and mistakes and present things in the best light possible. Yes, all the beekeepers improved their livelihoods, they got great yields of honey from their brilliant 'modern hives' which they then sold without any problems. Problems encountered are not mentioned. For example the defensive nature of the African bee is generally not mentioned at all as being an issue for African beekeepers. Low hive occupation rates in African beekeeping is another issue which is frequently overlooked. For example less than 40% of my own beehives in Nakuru were in production over a 4 year period.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">This inclination to show everything in the best possible light however has the effect of not allowing us to reflect , learn and improve our practice. Since we are not open to sharing mistakes others following behind us come and repeat our mistakes over again. Failed projects get repeated again and again. See more on learning from failure in development at: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/d0619e9e4b">http://www.admittingfailure.com/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">Note: The African beekeeping Resource Center (ABRC), a Kenya registered NGO, is currently undertaking an evaluation of beekeeping projects in East Africa in order to learn the lessons from both the successes and failures of beekeeping interventions. Please get in touch for further information: tcarroll@apiconsult.com</p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/883adbcca1/23e3033f0b/library/topbarempty.JPG" alt="Empty and neglected hives" title="Empty and neglected hives" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="179" height="134" style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); width: 179px; height: 134px; "></div></div> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; clear: both; font-size: 12px; color: #474747; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> </div> </td> <td width="170" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#cdde9f" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Apiconsult/883adbcca1/6118123233/fb7fdef7b6/utm_content=beekeeping1701.fiddle%40blogger.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Apiconsult%20Newsletter%20June%20%2F%20July%202012"><img src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/1/5/4/1543195373/883adbcca1/c4cad11fe0/library/harvest.JPG" alt="Harvesting the honey" title="Harvesting the honey" align="none" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="110" height="83" style="width: 110px; height: 83px; "></a></div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 12px; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> Contact Apiconsult for Expert Advice on African Beekeeping</div> <div style="clear: both; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: black; border-width: 0; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; width: 100%"> If you are a Business, Charity, NGO or Donor Agency and thinking of a beekeeping intervention in Africa, Apiconsult can help. 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Well, it's that time again – and you're invited on the 2011 Maritime Bee Tour, hosted by the Nova Scotia Beekeepers Association! <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/yEQA7dkYF_cQnck4H4vUg7D4k5Q/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/yEQA7dkYF_cQnck4H4vUg7D4k5Q/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/yEQA7dkYF_cQnck4H4vUg7D4k5Q/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/yEQA7dkYF_cQnck4H4vUg7D4k5Q/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=WSDNvW5-5FQ:smLS0Q7AIJc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=WSDNvW5-5FQ:smLS0Q7AIJc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=WSDNvW5-5FQ:smLS0Q7AIJc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=WSDNvW5-5FQ:smLS0Q7AIJc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=WSDNvW5-5FQ:smLS0Q7AIJc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/WSDNvW5-5FQ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="2" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beekeepers/~3/dDTuXrsyBec/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">SENB Beekeepers’ Field Day 18 June 2011</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 15 Jun 2011 10:43 AM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;">Southeast New Brunswick Beekeeper’s Association will be holding a field day on Saturday, 18 June 2011 — rain or shine. Registration and coffee will be at 9:30 a.m. at the Salisbury Baptist Church, Main Street, Salisbury, New Brunswick. If weather permits, the afternoon session will take place at the Country Fields/ Dore Honey apiary in [...] <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/HrQ9kt2ONbtnTEPxt0L-TFJY4fs/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/HrQ9kt2ONbtnTEPxt0L-TFJY4fs/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/HrQ9kt2ONbtnTEPxt0L-TFJY4fs/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/HrQ9kt2ONbtnTEPxt0L-TFJY4fs/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=dDTuXrsyBec:pa9YEpJgUKE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=dDTuXrsyBec:pa9YEpJgUKE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=dDTuXrsyBec:pa9YEpJgUKE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=dDTuXrsyBec:pa9YEpJgUKE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=dDTuXrsyBec:pa9YEpJgUKE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/dDTuXrsyBec?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="3" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beekeepers/~3/zgCFAPwj6vs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Four New Viruses Found in US Honey Bees</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 09 Jun 2011 09:22 AM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;">What viruses and bacteria exist in a normal honey bee colony throughout the year? A new study by UCSF researchers followed 20 colonies in a commercial beekeeping operation of more than 70,000 hives as they were transported across United States for crop pollination. <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YCj9TMbzMIkRAu4iuXq1L7rVqKY/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YCj9TMbzMIkRAu4iuXq1L7rVqKY/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YCj9TMbzMIkRAu4iuXq1L7rVqKY/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YCj9TMbzMIkRAu4iuXq1L7rVqKY/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=zgCFAPwj6vs:FVZ5arjt5Q4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=zgCFAPwj6vs:FVZ5arjt5Q4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=zgCFAPwj6vs:FVZ5arjt5Q4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=zgCFAPwj6vs:FVZ5arjt5Q4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=zgCFAPwj6vs:FVZ5arjt5Q4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/zgCFAPwj6vs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"> <p style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"> <a name="4" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/beekeepers/~3/g8iD2F65XpE/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Honey Fights Bacteria in Wounds, Scientists Say</a> </p> <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;"> <span>Posted:</span> 09 May 2011 08:46 PM PDT</p> <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;">Some 2000 years before the discovery of the existence of bacteria, honey was used to treat infected wounds. With the advent of modern medicine, such "folk remedies" as honey for wound treatment have gone out of favour, but in recent years honey has started to get more attention. 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Beyond a clean new look, the revised website makes it easier to find information published by the department, including forms and regulations. 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Now, a UC San Diego study published in the <a href="http://jeb.biologists.org/">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> suggests that beekeepers’ concerns are justified.</p> <p><span id="more-2908"></span></p> <p><a href="http://biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/nieh.html">James Nieh</a>, a professor of biology at University of California San Diego, headed the research project with graduate student <a href="http://dareneiri.com/">Daren Eiri</a> as first author of the report. The study was funded by the <a href="http://pollinator.org/nappc/index.html">North American Pollinator Protection Campaign</a> and the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/">National Science Foundation</a>.</p> <p>Nieh and Eiri were interested in the impact on bees of the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, as part of on-going research attempts to identify the cause of <a href="http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/labs/nieh/honeybee_health.html">colony collapse disorder</a> – the “disappearing bees” syndrome that has threatened the honeybees population since 2006 – and focussed their attention specifically on imidacloprid, a widely used chemical “known to affect bee learning and memory.”</p> <blockquote><p>The two biologists found in their experiments that honey bees treated with a small, single dose of imidacloprid, comparable to what they would receive in nectar, became "picky eaters."</p> <p>“In other words, the bees preferred to only feed on sweeter nectar and refused nectars of lower sweetness that they would normally feed on and that would have provided important sustenance for the colony,” said Eiri. “In addition, bees typically recruit their nestmates to good food with waggle dances, and we discovered that the treated bees also danced less.”</p></blockquote> <p>In some cases, the bees stopped dancing completely.</p> <p>And when bees become “picky eaters,” going for only the sweetest nectar, the total amount of stores brought into the hiveis naturally reduced – meaning, potentially, the difference between colony survival and starvation. Beekeepers know, too, that queens tend to produce more brood in times of ample food supply, so don’t you have to wonder what effect the lower stores would have on reproduction and colony build-up?</p> <p>The bottom line, says Nieh, is that “exposure to amounts of pesticide formerly considered safe may negatively affect the health of honey bee colonies.”</p> <p><iframe width="500" height="375" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iAkXC-T2YwM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>Press release: <a href="http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/commonly_used_pesticide_turns_honey_bees_into_picky_eaters">Commonly Used Pesticide Turns Honey Bees into 'Picky Eaters'</a></p> <p>Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21474280@N00/293742168/" title="Hives of north Alberta by l'insouciant1, on Flickr">Hives of north Alberta by l’insouciant1, on Flickr</a></p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YMUf61sUg0PhpZt4TDI80LJsONs/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YMUf61sUg0PhpZt4TDI80LJsONs/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YMUf61sUg0PhpZt4TDI80LJsONs/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/YMUf61sUg0PhpZt4TDI80LJsONs/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=rIMfWShdDBM:cOlgOP1fZ4E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=rIMfWShdDBM:cOlgOP1fZ4E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=rIMfWShdDBM:cOlgOP1fZ4E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=rIMfWShdDBM:cOlgOP1fZ4E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=rIMfWShdDBM:cOlgOP1fZ4E:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/rIMfWShdDBM?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-79993297678148720802012-04-25T05:23:00.001-07:002012-04-25T05:23:24.304-07:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : Notice to New Brunswick Importers of Queen Bees<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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(Upper Coverdale) has just posted their <a href="http://countryfields.ca/honeybees.html" title="Honey Bees for Sale - Country Fields Beekeeping Supplies Ltd">2012 prices for nucs and queens</a>. </p> <p><strong>Nucs (nucleus colonies) </strong>are $150.00 each with a $5 discount for payment by cash or cheque. A deposit of $30 is required. A nuc includes 2 frames of bees and brood, a laying queen, a frame of honey and pollen, and an empty frame for the queen to build on.</p> <p><strong>Queen bees</strong> are priced according to where they come from. This year, the Wheatleys will be bringing in queens from Hawaii (Kona only, not Big Island), California, and Australia. Local queens from Nova Scotia are expected to be available in early June. </p> <p>Supplies of honeybees are limited, of course, so you’ll want to get your order in right away. 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And if you’re thinking about getting started in beekeeping, you can find out what you’ll need to do over the winter months, to get ready for your own honey bees in the spring!</p> <p><strong>Tuesday, 10 January 2012</strong><br /> <strong>Central Beekeepers Alliance Meeting</strong><br /> Agricultural Research Centre, Fredericton, NB<br /> <strong>7:30 p.m.</strong></p> <p>New beekeepers and anyone interested in starting to keep bees are welcome to come out and join us, to learn more about beekeeping, chat with other local beekeepers, and find out more about how to keep honeybees here in New Brunswick.</p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/i5a5arxqelAqN9jtaQLcSNeYq4w/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/i5a5arxqelAqN9jtaQLcSNeYq4w/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/i5a5arxqelAqN9jtaQLcSNeYq4w/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/i5a5arxqelAqN9jtaQLcSNeYq4w/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Nc6De7yioAs:tfHzMNjM3X4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Nc6De7yioAs:tfHzMNjM3X4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Nc6De7yioAs:tfHzMNjM3X4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=Nc6De7yioAs:tfHzMNjM3X4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Nc6De7yioAs:tfHzMNjM3X4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/Nc6De7yioAs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-82032680285418260982011-11-08T05:12:00.001-08:002011-11-08T05:12:12.052-08:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : The Hidden Beauty of Pollination<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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His film <a href="http://www.movingart.tv/wingsoflife/">Wings of Life</a>, inspired by the plight of the honeybee, is a remarkable celebration of pollination and the tiny pollinators who keep our world alive:</p> <blockquote><p>Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment. It’s the mystical moment where life regenerates itself, over and over again.</p></blockquote> <p>Here, from his <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html">presentation</a>, recorded March 2011 at TED2011 in Long Beach, California, Schwartzberg presents some of the his film’s extraordinaryhigh-speed images of pollinators in action:</p> <p><object width="526" height="374"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/LouieSchwartzberg_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/LouieSchwartzberg-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1140&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination;year=2011;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=hidden_gems;theme=inspired_by_nature;theme=animals_that_amaze;event=TED2011;tag=beauty;tag=evolution;tag=film;tag=life;tag=nature;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="526" height="374" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011U/Blank/LouieSchwartzberg_2011U-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/LouieSchwartzberg-2011U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1140&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination;year=2011;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=hidden_gems;theme=inspired_by_nature;theme=animals_that_amaze;event=TED2011;tag=beauty;tag=evolution;tag=film;tag=life;tag=nature;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object></p> <p>If you’d like to watch at <strong>full screen size</strong> — highly recommended! — just click on the icon in the upper-right of the embedded video player. </p> <p>(Note: If you’re reading this in an email and can’t see the video player, please visit <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/2011/11/schwartzberg-pollination-film">http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/2011/11/schwartzberg-pollination-film</a> on the Central Beekeepers Alliance website.) </p> <p><a href="http://www.movingart.tv/wingsoflife/"><img src="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/scwartzberg-bees-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="scwartzberg-bees" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2849" /></a><strong>From the filmmaker’s introduction:</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. Their relationship is a love story that feeds the Earth. It reminds us that we are a part of nature, and we’re not separate from it.</p> <p>When I heard about the vanishing bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, it motivated me to take action. We depend on pollinators for over a third of the fruits and vegetables we eat. And many scientists believe it’s the most serious issue facing mankind. It’s like the canary in the coalmine. If they disappear, so do we. It reminds us that we are a part of nature and we need to take care of it.</p></blockquote> <p>You can learn more about Louie Schwartzberg and the film <em>Wings of Life</em> at <a href="http://www.movingart.tv">www.MovingArt.tv</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/viLyHwhoSXB6wRSAQr9FnCf4lKE/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/viLyHwhoSXB6wRSAQr9FnCf4lKE/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/viLyHwhoSXB6wRSAQr9FnCf4lKE/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/viLyHwhoSXB6wRSAQr9FnCf4lKE/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=aXLRHrD7_Lg:UmHLopPbXpI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=aXLRHrD7_Lg:UmHLopPbXpI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=aXLRHrD7_Lg:UmHLopPbXpI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=aXLRHrD7_Lg:UmHLopPbXpI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=aXLRHrD7_Lg:UmHLopPbXpI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/aXLRHrD7_Lg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-47204433714650558972011-11-06T04:23:00.001-08:002011-11-06T04:23:03.254-08:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : Mobile Phones in Honeybee Hives Cause “Worker Piping”: Research Study<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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One such study, published in <a href="http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/entomology/journal/13592" title="Apidologie">Apidologie</a>, Volume 42, Number 3 (May 2011), observes that <strong>active cellphones placed in bee hives cause the workers to pipe</strong> — to make the same sounds that normally signal either that the colony has been disturbed or it is about to swarm.</p> <p>The study, conducted by Daniel Favre of the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and the Apiary School of the City of Lausanne, Switzerland, “electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were tested for potential effects on honeybee behavior.”</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong>:</p> <blockquote><p>The worldwide maintenance of the honeybee has major ecological, economic, and political implications. In the present study, electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones were tested for potential effects on honeybee behavior. Mobile phone handsets were placed in the close vicinity of honeybees. The sound made by the bees was recorded and analyzed. The audiograms and spectrograms revealed that active mobile phone handsets have a dramatic impact on the behavior of the bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal. In natural conditions, worker piping either announces the swarming process of the bee colony or is a signal of a disturbed bee colony. </p></blockquote> <p>Interestingly, although the workers piped, the colonies did not produce a swarm as they would normally be expected to so shortly after that signal, and no queen piping was observed. The author suggests that perhaps worker piping is only one of a number of a signals that the bees rely on to trigger a swarm. </p> <p>Favre further notes that the experiment placed cellphones right inside the hive itself — putting the bees in much closer proximity to the source of electromagnetic waves than they would be in normal circumstances. The question is raised, however, whether long-term exposure to low levels of these waves might have a similar “dramatic impact” on bee behavior. More research will be required, however, before scientists can draw any conclusions about the implications for the beekeeping industry and our honeybee populations.</p> <p><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/bx23551862212177/" title="Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping">Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping</a> by Daniel Favre may be read in full online at Springerlink: DOI <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/bx23551862212177/" title="Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping">10.1007/s13592-011-0016-x</a>. <em>Apidologie</em>, an official publication of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and Deutscher Imkerbund E.V. 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Improving bee habitat and nutrition, they hope, will boost the dwindling populations of native bees and help cut the costs of commercial pollination.</p> <p>The bee habitat enhancement effort was organized by the <a href="http://www.xerces.org/" title="Xerces.org">Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</a>, a nonprofit group out of Portland, Oregon.</p> <blockquote><p>Getting farmers to plant bee habitat is key, [Mace] Vaughan [the group's pollinator program director] said, because bees with nutritionally sound diets are better able to fend off diseases and other problems.</p> <p>Bee habitat can also reduce a farmer’s costs and alleviate the stress on honeybees. Through research on California’s watermelons, University of California, Berkeley, professor Claire Kremen found that if a farmer sets aside between 20 percent and 30 percent of a field for bee habitat, the farm can get all or most of its pollination from native bees.</p> <p>That’s unrealistic for most farms, but Kremen said adding hedgerows and other plantings can help sustain a beneficial combination of native and commercial bees. Research has found that native bees make commercial honeybees more efficient pollinators by getting in their way and making them take a more circuitous route from plant to plant.</p> <p>“What it means is you don’t have to have a huge number of native bees, but if you have some then the combination of honeybees and native bees has a huge effect,” Kremen said.</p> <p>Other researchers have found that setting aside bee habitat leads to better crop production on the remaining land, compensating the farmer.</p></blockquote> <p>Read the full story, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141578353" title="Farmers Add Plants to Attract, Nourish Bees">Farmers Add Plants to Attract, Nourish Bees</a> at the National Public Radio website, NPR.org.</p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/vJXJe4-Yq0JHQr2Ae-jttSZ_NUc/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/vJXJe4-Yq0JHQr2Ae-jttSZ_NUc/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/vJXJe4-Yq0JHQr2Ae-jttSZ_NUc/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/vJXJe4-Yq0JHQr2Ae-jttSZ_NUc/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=5yD_xby76oE:Uj6w1ToixD8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=5yD_xby76oE:Uj6w1ToixD8:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=5yD_xby76oE:Uj6w1ToixD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=5yD_xby76oE:Uj6w1ToixD8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=5yD_xby76oE:Uj6w1ToixD8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/5yD_xby76oE?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-80846092733961075972011-11-02T05:15:00.001-07:002011-11-02T05:15:52.129-07:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : New Commercial Beekeeping Course Unique in Canada<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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The college is now accepting applications for the program’s January 2012 launch.</p> <h3>Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping</h3> <p>This 45-week course of vocational training will provide its graduates with the substantive knowledge, skills, and practical experience needed to work in commercial beekeeping.</p> <p>Graduates will be prepared for employment in Canada, the US, and other parts of the world as:</p> <ul> <li>Apiary assistants and field supervisors with commercial beekeepers;</li> <li>Technicians with government agriculture departments;</li> <li>Self-employed beekeepers; and/ or</li> <li>Project coordinators for beekeeping/honey production projects<br /> in the developing world.</li> </ul> <p><span id="more-2744"></span><br /> The program strikes a balance between theoretical and practical learning, combining classroom study with industry work experience and practicum visits to large commercial beekeeping operations. </p> <p>One unique feature is the <strong>26-week paid work experience</strong> in which students are placed with commercial beekeepers, where they will earn a salary as they gain hands-on experience in beekeeping and honey production.</p> <h3>Curriculum</h3> <p><strong>Theory of Apiculture<strong><br /> </strong></strong><em>January & February (8 weeks)</em></p> <ul> <li>BK101 (2) Basic Apiary and Field Skills</li> <li>BK110 (3) Technical Woodworking</li> <li>BK122 (1.5) Introductory Botany</li> <li>BK132 (4) Honey Bee Biology</li> <li>BK133 (1.5) Introduction to Bee Diseases and Management</li> <li>BK134 (5) Hive Management for Honey Production</li> </ul> <p><em>Program break (1 week)<br /> </em></p> <p><em>March to September</em></p> <ul> <li>BK135 (5) Queen Rearing (3 weeks; May/June)</li> <li>BK200 (5) Beekeeping Work Experience</li> </ul> <p><em>Program break (1 week)</em></p> <p><strong>Business of Beekeeping</strong><br /> <em>October & November</em></p> <ul> <li>BK310 (1.5) Food Safety and Regulations for Beekeepers</li> <li>BK320 (5) Business of Bees</li> <li>BK331 (3) Advance Management Options for Beekeepers</li> <li>BK332 (4) Product Processing, Packaging and Marketing</li> <li>BK333 (1) Processing and Packaging Field Trip</li> <li>BK361 (2.5) Integrated Pest Management</li> <li>BK365 (1) Bees and the Environment</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/northern-alberta-hives-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Northern Alberta field with bee hives" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2766" /> “The launch of the Commercial Beekeeping Certificate Program by GPRC is a significant step forward in the development of a successful and sustainable bee, honey and pollination industry in Canada. Canadian beekeepers will be the recipients of a more knowledgeable workforce to address the many concerns the industry is now facing,” according to Corey Bacon, Chair of the <a href="http://honeycouncil.ca/">Canadian Honey Council</a>.</p> <p>For more information about the Commercial Beekeeping Certificate program at GPRC, contact Chris Laue, Dean of Trades, Agriculture and Environment, or visit <a href="http://gprc.ab.ca/programs">gprc.ab.ca/programs</a>.</p> <p>Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21474280@N00/293742168/" title="Hives of north Alberta by l'insouciant1, on Flickr">Hives of north Alberta by l’insouciant1, on Flickr</a></p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/oGTpYajLfwVjjOBuyrz9QkvT-B8/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/oGTpYajLfwVjjOBuyrz9QkvT-B8/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/oGTpYajLfwVjjOBuyrz9QkvT-B8/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/oGTpYajLfwVjjOBuyrz9QkvT-B8/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Dty-Sb3Xb60:lCdPopTj05o:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Dty-Sb3Xb60:lCdPopTj05o:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Dty-Sb3Xb60:lCdPopTj05o:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=Dty-Sb3Xb60:lCdPopTj05o:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Dty-Sb3Xb60:lCdPopTj05o:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/Dty-Sb3Xb60?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-57888766352489113722011-10-25T05:24:00.001-07:002011-10-25T05:24:41.190-07:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : 2012 Canadian Beekeeping Convention slated for Winnipeg, Manitoba<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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The convention and symposium will be hosted by the Manitoba Beekeepers Association at the historic Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.</p> <p>Convention Theme:<br /> “<strong>Healthy Environment – Healthy Bees – Healthy Honey</strong>”</p> <p><strong>Keynote Speakers</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Marion Ellis</strong> – Professor and Extension Apiculture Specialist, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA</li> <li><strong>Jerry Hayes</strong> – Apiary Inspection Assistant Chief, Florida Department of Agriculture Services, Gainesville, Florida, USA</li> <li><strong>Danielle Downey</strong> – Apiculture Specialist, Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Hilo, Hawaii, USA</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://manitobabee.org/hive/category/convention-symposium/"><img src="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2012CanadianBeekeepingCon-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="2012 Canadian Beekeeping Convention" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2720" /></a></p> <blockquote><p>All interested beekeepers and related industry people are invited to come out to hear what is happening in the Beekeeping Industry across Canada and USA. The 2012 Canadian Beekeeping Convention is held in conjunction with the Canadian Honey Council (CHC) and Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA) Annual Meetings, and thus should provide an action packed week for all attendees. In addition, CHC will be hosting special meetings earlier in the week for their members and guests.</p></blockquote> <p>Agenda details, hotel information, registration form, convention costs, and other important information can be found on the <a href="http://manitobabee.org" title="Manitoba Beekeepers Association">Manitoba Beekeepers Association</a> website (<a href="http://manitobabee.org" title="Manitoba Beekeepers Association">http://manitobabee.org</a>). </p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/cnHgO-cntUKhL0VmA1d8o0zk8Jo/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/cnHgO-cntUKhL0VmA1d8o0zk8Jo/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/cnHgO-cntUKhL0VmA1d8o0zk8Jo/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/cnHgO-cntUKhL0VmA1d8o0zk8Jo/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=uv5qlfU1_J0:Dk16uMRz-eo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=uv5qlfU1_J0:Dk16uMRz-eo:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=uv5qlfU1_J0:Dk16uMRz-eo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=uv5qlfU1_J0:Dk16uMRz-eo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=uv5qlfU1_J0:Dk16uMRz-eo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/uv5qlfU1_J0?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-17105699850933509552011-10-16T05:29:00.001-07:002011-10-16T05:29:15.777-07:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : Central Beekeepers Christmas Dinner 2011<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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Cost per person: $16.95 (plus tax & gratuity). Payments can be made the November meeting of the Central Beekeepers Alliance, or you can pay on the night. </p> <p>A private room (the downstairs conference room) has been reserved for our event. 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And if you’re thinking about getting into beekeeping next spring, you can find out what you’ll need to do now and over the winter months, to prepare to keep your own honey bees!</p> <p><strong>Tuesday, 8 November 2011</strong><br /> <strong>Central Beekeepers Alliance Meeting</strong><br /> Agricultural Research Centre, Fredericton, NB<br /> <strong>7:30 p.m.</strong></p> <p>New beekeepers and anyone interested in starting to keep bees are welcome to come out and join us, to learn more about beekeeping, chat with other local beekeepers, and find out more about how to keep honeybees here in New Brunswick.</p> <p><a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/kohSXEz90A7NuekjNeNOYGdKaws/0/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/kohSXEz90A7NuekjNeNOYGdKaws/0/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/kohSXEz90A7NuekjNeNOYGdKaws/1/pa"><img src="https://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U/kohSXEz90A7NuekjNeNOYGdKaws/1/pi" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Bma1rPUGIDs:1SK59hDTTMk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Bma1rPUGIDs:1SK59hDTTMk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Bma1rPUGIDs:1SK59hDTTMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?i=Bma1rPUGIDs:1SK59hDTTMk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?a=Bma1rPUGIDs:1SK59hDTTMk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/beekeepers?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/beekeepers/~4/Bma1rPUGIDs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" height="1" width="1"/></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer"> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com">Central Beekeepers Alliance</a> <br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=CcbJ_fH1zngeYfXPomgiTnbZj8U">unsubscribe now</a>.</td> <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td> </tr> </table> </div> Beekeeping For Beginnershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00846070299221506567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968050928517586919.post-55847065741862617512011-10-07T05:18:00.001-07:002011-10-07T05:18:52.468-07:00Central Beekeepers Alliance : The Perfect Design of Honey Bees<style type="text/css"> h1 a:hover {background-color:#888;color:#fff ! 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A proboscis for ferreting out nectar stored deep in a flower’s folds. And powerful mandibles for eating, feeding young, and manipulating wax.</p> <div style="width:170px;" class="alignleft"><img src="http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bee-on-lavendar-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="bee-on-lavendar" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2676" /> <p style="font-size:x-small;">Photo: <a title="Bee on lavendar IMG_4930 by boring_vanner on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andy_van_green/183428028/">Bee on lavendar</a> via Flickr</p> </div> <p>Two compound eyes are comprised of 6,900 lenses and covered with sensory hairs for detecting wind speed. Three additional eyes, called <em>ocelli</em>, receive light signals for orientation.</p> <p>Four wings clasp together with tiny hooks and beat up to 230 times a second.</p> <p>For defense, a double-edged, serrated sting, which she can use only once — at the cost of her own life.</p> <p>Hind legs are broadened into special baskets for carrying heavy cargo of pollen to the hive. Feathery hairs coat the body and build up a static charge as the bee flies. When the bee lands on a flower, pollen literally jumps on to her body.</p></blockquote> <div class="alignright"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0017M9ZJM/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=centralbeekee-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=B0017M9ZJM"><img src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0017M9ZJM&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=centralbeekee-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" alt="" border="0" /></a><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=centralbeekee-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0017M9ZJM&camp=217145&creative=399369" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></div> <p>Nature’s award-winning <em>Silence of the Bees</em> was narrated by American actor F. Murray Abraham, winner of the 1985 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in <em>Amadeus</em>. It was produced by filmmaker Doug Schultz — and if you’re interested in what went on “behind the scenes” in making the documentary, you can read an <a title="Silence of the Bees - PBS - Interview with Filmmaker Doug Shultz" href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/silence-of-the-bees/interview-filmmaker-doug-shultz/39/">interview with Doug Schultz</a> at the PBS program website.</p> <p><em>Silence of the Bees</em> is available on DVD (packaged together with an equally interesting documentary, <em>Parrots in the Land of Oz</em>). 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