Central Beekeepers Alliance

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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Photo: Maritime Beekeepers at Canadian Honey Council

A delegation of beekeepers from the Maritime Provinces attended the Canadian Honey Council AGM in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in December 2008. Click on the photograph to see a larger image. Back row: Ralph Lockhart (NB), Alden Thomas (NB), Paul Vautour (NB), Mary Colpitts (NB), Fletcher Colpitts (NB) Next: Edith Thomas (NB), Jerry Draheim (NS), Pascale [...]

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Maritime Beekeepers and Southeast Beekeepers to Meet – POSTPONED

MEETING POSTPONED due to weather / travelling hazards: Rescheduled for 29 NOVEMBER 2008

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Maritime Bee Tour 2008 – Agenda and Registration Form

Maritime Bee Tour Beyond The Hive – The Business of Value Adding 18 – 20 July 2008 Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia Hosted by the Nova Scotia Beekeepers Association

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Update on Nosema in Maritime Canada

Dick Rogers of Wildwood Labs has released this information about the results of on-going investigations into the presence of Nosema and Nosema ceranae in the Maritime Provinces: Based on results to-date, it appears that N.ceranae is well established and makes up about 50% or more of cases in surveyed provinces of NS and PEI. More [...]

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