Central Beekeepers Alliance

What Would Your Garden Look Like Without Bees?

While researchers are looking for the causes, honey bee populations around the world continue to decline at alarming rates. Given that more than a third of our food supply is dependent on pollination by honey bees, it is not an exaggeration to say that we have the potential for a major agricultural disaster. That’s the [...]

Continue reading...

Bees Can Learn to Recognize Faces

Bees can be trained to recognize human faces, so long as the insects are tricked into thinking that the faces are oddly shaped flowers, new research shows. The insects use the arrangement of facial features to recognize and distinguish one face from another. Bees recognize human faces using feature configuration. ScienceDaily. First, the researchers used an arrangement [...]

Continue reading...

New Honey Bee Documentaries

A program by David Suzuki recently aired on CBC January 7th entitled To Bee or Not to Bee. The documentary explores various possibilities for the declining honeybee population in several countries such as industrial beekeeping, poor nutrition from monoculture pollinations, and diseases.

Continue reading...

Thank You to Local Businesses

The Executive and members of the Central Beekeepers Alliance wish to extend our sincere thanks to all the local businesses in the greater Fredericton area who generously donated door prizes for our beekeepers association Christmas party:

Continue reading...

Ag Museum Curator Seeks Antique Honey Tins from Maritimes

Do you happen to have a collection of old New Brunswick (or Nova Scotia) honey tins stashed away in your attic, barn loft, or honey house? If so, would you be willing to loan one of them to the Canada Agriculture Museum? I am looking for an antique or vintage honey tin from [...]

Continue reading...