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Help get the Beekeeping Merit Badge Reinstated
Support Boy Scout Christopher Stowell in his quest to get the beekeeping merit badge reinstated.
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11-year-old gets beekeeping grant
That bees can fly at all is something of a mystery. From an aerodynamic standpoint, they simply shouldn’t. Read More
Concern over varroa funding in New Zealand
Farmers and beekeepers say they are worried the Government will “desert” beekeepers and look to farmers to help pay for controls on the spread of varroa mites. Read More
Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Diseases and pesticides
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Varroa controls maintained for another year in New Zealand
The Government has approved bringing forward varroa funding to maintain North and South Island movement control lines until July 2009, Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton said today. Read More
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Ontario funding takes sting out of beekeepers’ losses
After local beekeepers felt the sting of devastating hive losses last winter, news of $3 million in provincial funding to help them recover is pretty sweet. Read more
Bee Researcher At Arizona State University Is 1 Of 20 New Pew Scholars In The Biomedical Sciences
Gro Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences’ Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, is one of only … Continue reading
Ontario beekeepers to seek financial aid
Beekeepers in Ontario are gearing up to ask the provincial government for financial aid after unusually high losses of honeybees over the winter that they figure have already cost them more than $5-million. Read more
Posted in Business, Diseases and pesticides, North America
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Hamlin beekeeper testifies at hearing
In a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday, the chairman of a key House agriculture subcommittee promised to help the nation’s beekeepers and farmers find the cause of a massive die-off of honey bees over the past year. Read more
Posted in Diseases and pesticides, North America
Tagged ccd, colony collapse disorder, funding, usa
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Bee researchers call for cash to study mysterious disorder
Researchers trying to figure out what is causing honeybees across the nation to disappear from their hives need two things along with their expertise – time and money. Read more
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Tagged ccd, colony collapse disorder, funding, research
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Fund’s honey of a buy
The Cullen Fund has become a substantial shareholder in honey products maker Comvita. Read more
Govt plans financial assistance for honey farmers in India
The Government is planning to promote the honey production in the country through financial assistance to people engaged in bee-keeping and setting up of testing laboratories to improve its quality. Read more




