August 23, 2008

Bid to save Welsh bees stung by summer washout

Posted by eivindm @ 12:22 pm
Europe Technique

WALES’ ailing honeybee population is being given artificial insemination after a second successive washout summer which has seen numbers fall to dangerously low levels.

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May 18, 2008

Honeybees get a boost from supplement

Posted by eivindm @ 11:33 am
Biology North America Technique
Backyard beekeepers and commercial bee breeders alike are starting to offer their bees low-fat, high-protein “megabee patties” that help make up nutritional deficits. Commercially managed bees are nearly always used in monocrops situations, where they might be feeding on nothing but almonds for a few weeks, then nothing but watermelon for the next few weeks.

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March 5, 2008

Queen Rearing: A Beekeeper’s Primer

Posted by eivindm @ 6:56 pm
Technique

Many amateur apiarists are discovering that honey production is only part of the challenge and reward of keeping bees.

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November 24, 2006

Alaska beekeepers work to preserve hives in winter

Posted by eivindm @ 11:56 am
North America Technique

Honeybees aren’t built to survive winter’s subzero temperatures, but with a shortage of bees nationwide, more beekeepers are trying to nurture the fuzzy insects through Alaska’s most notorious season. With parasitic mites preying on the U.S. bee population, the price of importing fresh bees to Alaska from farms to the south has risen steadily in the past several years.

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November 18, 2006

Beekeepers told to go for quality

Posted by eivindm @ 8:42 pm
Africa Technique

Beekeeping extension officer in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Hussein Msuya, said last week that although Tanzania’s honey and beeswax has reliable market for honey abroad, the keeping and harvesting methods leaves much to be desired.

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September 1, 2006

Remove the queen - get more honey

Posted by eivindm @ 10:48 am
Technique

An inventor from Moscow has developed a brand new technology for commercial beekeeping. He suggests removing a queen bee from the hive, which allows cropping as mush as 20 kilos of the purest honey every month.

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