Central Beekeepers Alliance

How to Help Honey Bees to Survive the Winter

As Canadian beekeepers work to rebuild after the unusually high overwintering losses of the winter of 2006-2007, what should be done to promote bee health and reduce future winterkill? Medhat Nasr has prepared a fact sheet, Honey Bees and Winterkill, for the Alberta Department of Agriculture. It outlines the best management practices developed in Alberta [...]

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Ode to a Drone

New Brunswick poet Bliss Carman (1861-1929) wrote his ode to the honey bee collaboratively with the American poet Richard Hovey, and it appeared in their book Songs From Vagabondia, published in 1894. It’s just a shame that Carman didn’t know more about Apis mellifera. The poet made the common mistake — perpetuated in works from [...]

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Bee Cozy Winter Hive Wraps

NOD Apiary Products Ltd., the company founded by beekeepers that makes Mite-Away varroa treatment pads, also produces the Bee Cozy winter hive wrap. The easy-to-use Bee Cozy is constructed of fibreglass insulation and UV-protected polytubing, to give extra weather protection to bees overwintered in cold climates. It is easy to put on and take off, [...]

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Southeast NB Beekeepers Meeting 24 November 2007

Saturday, 21 April 2007 Southeast NB Beekeepers Meeting Moncton, New Brunswick 9:30 a.m. The Southeast New Brunswick Beekeepers Association (SENBBA) will be meeting on Saturday, 24 November 2007 at the Lions Community Centre, 473 St. George Street, Moncton, NB. Coffee will be on at 9:30, and the meeting starts at 10:00 a.m.. There will be [...]

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2008 CBA Executive

The Central Beekeepers Alliance has elected its Executive committee for 2008: President — Natalie Duncan, Fredericton, NB Vice-President — Jane Edington, Hanwell, NB Secretary — Marlene Price, Gagetown, NB Treasurer — Rick Atkinson, Keswick Ridge, NB

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