Central Beekeepers Alliance

10 Ways to Help Save the Bees

The Daily Green offers Five Ways to Bolster the Bees and Five Ways Kids Can “Save Our Bees” to help make the world a better, safer, healthier place for all our essential pollinators. Suggestions are varied — from planting more bee-friendly forage plants in our garden, to cutting back on the use of pesticides and chemical [...]

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Bees Might Be Able to Sniff Out Disease

You may already be familiar with the fact that bees can be trained to find explosives, drugs, and military chemicals? Now one British student, Susana Soares, is looking into how bees’ exceptional sniffing abilities might help humans in other ways. The possibilities might include training bees to detect a pregnancy or diagnose a disease condition, [...]

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CBA Meeting 10 July 2007

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 Central Beekeepers Alliance Meeting Agricultural Research Centre, Fredericton, NB 7:30 p.m. Want to learn more about Beekeeping? Visitors and new beekeepers are always welcome! Most meetings include an educational session, group discussion, or hands-on demonstration for the benefit of beginning beekeepers in central New Brunswick. The Agricultural Research Centre (”Experimental Farm”) is on the Lincoln [...]

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When Is the Queen Bee Not the Queen?

University of North Carolina biology student Andrew Pierce has just discovered something previously unknown about the behaviour of the European honeybee — “perhaps the most studied and economically important insect on Earth.” It seems that the queen bee is not, after all, the absolute ruler of the hive. “Major colony activities are initiated by the cumulative group [...]

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Do Insecticides Keep Bees From Fighting Off Nosema?

The Institute of Science in Society, London, has released a report of research that suggests a combination of factors may be responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder. According to Dr. Joe Cummins, author of the repost, there is evidence to suggest that sub-lethal amounts of certaian common systemic insecticides, such as Bt, could be making honeybees more [...]

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