Central Beekeepers Alliance

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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Honey Bee Photographs

Richard and Norma Duplain took these photographs of their honey bees in July, as the bees were busy foraging in the vegetable and flower gardens at their home in New Brunswick. Richard was kind enough to share pictures of his honeybees in lupines earlier in the season. Now, enjoy More Honey Bee Photographs in this [...]

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Honey Bees in Close-Up: Photographs

CBA member Richard Duplain got busy with his bees and a camera, a few days ago, and has created some truly gorgeous close-up photographs of worker bees out in the field. This is good, because Central Beekeepers Alliance is on the look-out for clear and colourful photographs for possible use as posters when we set [...]

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New Clue in Search for American Foulbrood Cure

In a paper published in Environmental Microbiology, Professor Elke Genersch and colleagues in Berlin announce what’s been reported as a “major breakthrough” in honeybee pathology. A new understanding of how the bringing bee researchers one step closer to finding a way to prevent the spread of American Foulbrood disease (AFB), the only infectious disease which [...]

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