The McCall’s Quilting website has free instructions and applique template for the popular Honey Bee Quilt Block.
Suitable for beginner-level quilters, the pattern combines straight-edge piecing with appliqué “wings” at each corner.
Three solid-colour fabrics and one printed fabric are used to create each 12″ x 12″ block (finished size).
Central Beekeepers are having a Christmas party!
We’ll be gathering at the Thistle Restaurant, Silverwood Motel, Fredericton, NB, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, 1 December 2007. Buffet dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m.
CBA will be subidizing the cost of the meal for members and their guests, so the cost per person will be capped at $10 per person.
This is the same restaurant where we held last year’s Christmas party, and there were rave reviews for both the food and the friendly staff.
Join us, to celebrate the season! — and please, give Dan Richards a call to let him know you’re coming, so he can tell the restaurant how many of us to expect. His number is 455-4922.
In bee colonies that are already under stress from other pests or diseases, the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) is able to get past the guard bees to raid the hive’s essential stores of pollen, ripening nectar, and honey.
This is a particular concern for beekeepers in warm climates, such as Florida, where many hives are taken to overwinter — and where the hive beetles can prosper. Since its discovery on the continent in 1998, the pest has spread throughout the eastern part of the United States.
In 2005, Peter Teal and his colleagues at the Chemistry Research Unit at the Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology in Gainesville, Florida, patented a trap that’s based on the natural processes of the small hive beetle.
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With Wales’ honey bee population in sharp decline, the fate of these essential pollinators now rests in the hands of small and backyard beekeepers.
A growing interest in organic food and green issues is credited with raising the public awareness of bees as essential pollinators, according to a story by Izzy Kaminski, Countryside News correspondent to the Western Mail, Wales.
With a sharp decline in natural pollinators over the past few years — about a quarter of the UK’s wild bee species are listed as endangered — honey bees are vital to the pollination of food crops, and small beekeepers are beginning to be recognized as playing a vital role in sustaining their populations.
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Christiane Courant, Managing editor of Apidologie has announced that, for the first time, the entire collection of back issues of Apidologie (and Annales de l’Abeille) is available online — free of charge.
This electronic archive contains all the articles of Annales de l’Abeille (1958-1968) and Apidologie (1970-_) in searchable PDF format.
This material, which forms an “essential database of scientific knowledge in bee science,” was digitalized with the funding assistance of the INRA. It is available on the journal website at http://www.apidologie.org.
