Central Beekeepers Alliance

New Bee Book Review: The Buzz About Bees – Jürgen Tautz

When you’ve been into honey bees for a while, don’t all the bee books start to look the same? Well, The Buzz about Bees by Jürgen Tautz, translated into English just this summer by David Sandeman, is a honeybee book with a real difference. To begin with, it’s almost impossible to choose between [...]

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Beekeeping Hippies Run The Amazing Race

Eleven teams compete in the 13th series of The Amazing Race, the popular reality TV show hosted by Phil Keoghan. An adventurous race for a prize of one million dollars, the challenging route spans more than 30,000 miles and five continents in 23 days. Among the contestants in the race are a married [...]

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Potluck Supper and CBA Elections

Central Beekeepers will meet at the Maugerville Community Centre, Maugerville, NB, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 November 2008, for our regular end-of-season potluck supper meeting.

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No CBA Meeting in October

The regular monthly meeting of Central Beekeepers — which normally would be held on the evening of October 14 — has been cancelled due to the federal election scheduled for the same date. The next beekeepers meeting will be our end-of-season potluck supper, the date and place to be confirmed shortly. Watch this site for [...]

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Nosema Ceranae and Honeybee Colony Collapse

How natural infection by Nosema ceranae causes honeybee colony collapse, an article by M. P. Higes et al., Bee Pathology laboratory, Centro Apícola Regional, Spain, which was presented at OIE Apimondia Symposium Freiburg 2008, appears in the current issue of Environmental Microbiology, 18 July 2008. In recent years, honeybees (Apis mellifera) have been strangely disappearing [...]

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