Central Beekeepers Alliance

Beekeepers at FREX 2007

The Central Beekeepers Alliance will have a booth at the FREX again this year, with an educational display, beekeepers to answer your questions, and our members’ own local honey for sale. The 180th Fredericton Exhibition is 2 – 8 September, 2007. Check the schedule of events and plan to drop by the Coliseum gangway to [...]

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How Bee Researchers Are Tackling CCD

James William of Discovery News goes straight to the USDA Bee Research Lab to find out what’s been going on with honeybees in North America. Where this video goes beyond many of the other news stories that we’ve seen — as one might expect from the Discovery Channel — here, the emphasis is on the [...]

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Fear of Bees

When lightning struck down a very large basswood tree in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, last week, it displaced a small colony of honeybees that had made their home in the hollow trunk. Public Works officials set up barricades with signs reading “Danger: Bees” and police kept people away from the site while a call went out to [...]

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Burkina-Faso Beekeeping update: past deadline

CUSO seeks beekeeper for Albert Schweitzer Ecological Centre in Burkina Faso Update: Deadline for application for this opportunity has passed. To see any similar opportunites that might be written up on our site, see the site map, try the search box below, or go to the Central Beekeepers Alliance home page to see our most [...]

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How Honeybee Colonies Choose a Nest When Swarming

From the National Geographic: A single ant or bee isn’t smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots. Specifically referenced is the work of Thomas Seeley, on a small island off the coast of Maine, on how [...]

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