Central Beekeepers Alliance

Honeybees Gone Wild

If you’ve ever wondered how honeybees might live, if we didn’t put them into hive boxes, here’s a look at a feral colony on their fresh white heart-shaped natural comb. See how the centre of the heart is darker, where the brood was laid? Look closely, and you can even see a few capped cells. [...]

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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 the text [...]

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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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Silence of the Bees

Update If you missed the original broadcast, no problem! You can now see the full-length video of the Nature program Silence of the Bees on the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/silence-of-the-bees/full-episode/251/. Bees on PBS Nature Documentary (Originally posted: 1 November 2007) Silence of the Bees is the first in-depth look at the search to uncover what is [...]

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Beaverlodge Bee Program On Radio-Canada TV

If you have some free time on this coming Sunday afternoon, you can watch the members of the Beaverlodge (Alberta) bee research program in action on TV! This will be on the French language network of the CBC, on the science show called Découverte (Discovery), as part of a segment looking at factors causing the [...]

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