Farm Focus reports this week that 97% of bee hives in Nova Scotia have been opened and checked, now, and the over wintered colonies in that province are looking strong.
Joanne Moran, secretary of the NS Beekeepers Association, told Farm Focus that beekeepers took extra care with management last year, and in preparing their bees for winter. “And the weather co-operated.”
Moran attributes Nova Scotia’s winterkill of 18.4% to starvation, ineffective mite managements, and/or the effects of Nosema ceranae, which has “taken over” from Nosema apis in that province.
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See:
- NS Bees Look Good by Heather Jones
Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada: 8 May 2008
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