Central Beekeepers Alliance

Are Honey Bees Hooked on Caffeine and Nicotine?

Have you noticed your honeybees buzzing around the coffee grounds in your compost pile on a warm day in early spring? it turns out, there may be a reason for this common behaviour — the bees might be seeking a hit of caffeine! Researchers at the University of Haifa-Oranim have learned that bees are attracted [...]

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New Honey Bee Exhibits at Canada’s Virtual Museum & Agriculture Museum

The Canadian Agriculture Museum announces "Taking Care of Beesness," a new exhibit on honey bees and beekeeping to open March 1, 2010. Not in Ottawa? Visit "Bees, a Honey of an Idea" online - an exciting new interactive "virtual" exhibit from the Virtual Museum of Canada.

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Clarity on Honey Bee Collapse?

Over the past few years, the media have frequently reported deaths of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Most reports express opinions but little hard science.

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Suspect Named in Canadian Bee Losses

Bees across Canada have declined by 30 to 40 percent every spring since 2006, and the numbers are similar across the northern hemisphere. It may come as a surprise to struggling beekeepers, then, that University of Guelph entomological researcher Dr. Ernesto Guzman says Colony Collapse Disorder may not even exist.

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Automatic Beekeeping?

“Automatic hive – no beekeeper needed!” That’s what the man says, and offers an online manual with “detailed instructions for constructing and operating fully automatic hives, for which no bee knowledge is required of any kind, since only open to harvest.”

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