Central Beekeepers Alliance

Honey Bee: Sentinel of the Environment

Members of the general public, as well as members of the beekeeping world, who are concerned about the health of honey bee populations, are urged to sign an online charter, The Honey Bee: Sentinel of the Environment, which calls for decisive action by governments around the world to support apiculturists' efforts to save our bees.

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Honey Bee Losses Threaten Food Supply, Says European Parliament

Immediate action is required to tackle the drastic decline in bee colonies throughout Europe and the rest of the world, say Members of the European Parliament. The loss of bees impact not just honey production but the pollination of food crops. MEPs call for immediate extensive research into honeybee parasites and diseases, as well as other possible causes of bee mortality such as loss of genetic diversity, agricultural chemical use, and the cultivation of genetically modified crops.

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New Bee Breeding Research in Canada

A new Genome BC research project will soon put advanced genomics tools into the hands of bee breeders, enabling them select only the strongest, most resistant bees for breeding programs. New Research will Help Honeybee Breeders out of a Sticky Situation Prince George, BC — Canadians may have noticed that there were decidedly fewer bees [...]

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Round-Up of Reports on Colony Collapse Disorder

Here’s a collection of video and audio presentations about research on CCD from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and colleagues: Colony Collapse Disorder: A Complex Buzz, originally published in Agricultural Research magazine (May 2008) Discovery Communications video: Bee Killer Hunted by Scientists (6:00 minutes, 2007). ARS researchers Jeff Pettis and Jay [...]

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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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