Central Beekeepers Alliance

Inside an Observation Hive

A glass-fronted indoor hive, located at Gilbey's Gallery in Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick, allows even the most nervous visitor to get up-close-and personal with an active colony of honey bees.

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Map: Forage Plants for Honey Bees

HoneyBeeNet is one of the more surprising finds on the NASA website. There you’ll find a Honey Bee Forage Map showing the 14 regions of the Ayers and Harman honey bee forage map, “based on natural patterns of land use and flora.” Click on the map to see a list of honey bee forage species [...]

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Recommendations for Honey Bee Disease Control

It is vital to the well-being of honey bees that beekeepers stay up-to-date on best practices for hive health. For current recommendations for treatments and control of honeybee pests and diseases, New Brunswick beekeepers are strongly advised to consult the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) website.

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Help Other Pollinators: Build a House for Solitary Bees

There are more than 1000 species of native bees in this country, and they're struggling to survive in this modern world the same way that honeybees are -- so a frustrated wannabe-beekeeper could do a lot worse than to set up a home for those wild bees, if honeybees aren't possible.

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Seasonal Monitoring & Treatment of Honey Bees

Beekeepers who are not members of the Canadian Honey Council may have missed this colourful educational poster, “Seasonal Monitoring & Treatment,” distributed with the May 2008 issue of Hivelights -- but you can download the poster as a PDF file to print out yourself.

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