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Close up view of the working bees on honeycells.

Bee die-offs from multiple causes

Experts and bee industry representatives say  the story’s been presented one dimensionally  by many in the media

By Alex Binkley June 29, 2016

Habitat loss, poor beekeeping practices and pesticides are among the biggest challenges facing bee populations, experts have told the Commons agriculture committee. Chris Cutler, an associate professor in the department of environmental sciences at Dalhousie University and also a beekeeper, said another challenge is a lack of information on wild bees, which are vital to

Livestock, News

Postal workers pledge to move bees, chicks if striking

Postal workers are taking strike votes this month across the country

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 28, 2016

Canada Post and its unionized staff have agreed to set up a system in which workers would volunteer to move live animals, such as day-old chicks or bees, during a strike or lockout. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced June 14 it has a new agreement with the Crown corporation to move and

Entomologist Christian Krupke at the Purdue Bee Laboratory with pollen collected by Indiana honeybees.

Did you know?, News

Non-crop plants source of most pesticide contamination of bees

One of the most common sources of pollen contamination is home pest control products

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 13, 2016

Urban landscapes may bear more responsibility for exposing bees to pesticides than previously thought. A recent study from Purdue University, published in the academic journal Nature Communications, found honeybees gathered the vast majority of pollen from non-agriculture crops and were being exposed to both agricultural and domestic pesticides. Entomologist Christian Krupke found pollen samples contained

Two drone pupae of the Western honey bee with varroa mites.

Crops, Local news

Mites could play role in variable bee losses

Honeybee losses are all over the map in Manitoba this year, as experts eye the impact of the varroa mite

By Shannon VanRaes June 7, 2016

While the numbers are still preliminary it appears one word will likely characterize winter loss for Manitoba beekeepers this spring — variability. “The one thing I can probably say without having any hard numbers, just from preliminary reporting, is that we’re going to have a lot of variability in winter loss this year,” said Rheal

Local news

Beehives to go high tech

A so-called smart beehive could change how apiarists manage their colonies and treat mites

By Shannon VanRaes June 2, 2016

We have smart phones, smart cars and even smart fridges. Now, Allan Campbell is preparing to launch the smart beehive. “We are still in the prototype phase, but we hope to have the first ones out this summer. So far it hasn’t left the lab yet,” said the co-owner of Durston Honey Farms and president

A Monarhc butterfly feeds on yellow perennial milkweed.

News

Insect habitat campaigns reaching goals

Bees and monarch butterflies depend on disappearing habitat and campaigns to plant more are getting a lot of attention

By Alex Binkley May 4, 2016

A 4-H campaign to encourage Canadians to plant bee- and butterfly-friendly flowers has already hit its 2016 goal. The program, dubbed ‘Proud to Bee a 4-H’er’ has distributed packets of flower seeds that provide pollinator habitat to 120 registered clubs across the country, in partnership with crop protection and life science company Syngenta. 4-H spokesperson

News

App promises better communication between farmers and beekeepers

Developed in Australia, BeeConnected will aid co-ordination between farmers and beekeepers and keep bees healthy

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 21, 2016

CropLife Canada and the Canadian Honey Council are teaming up to bring an app to Canada that promises to help bees and crop agriculture coexist. BeeConnected was developed by CropLife Australia and the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council, to allow farmers, beekeepers, and pesticide applicators to collaborate, anonymously, to facilitate best practices to protect pollinators.

Solitary nesting bees, like this native leafcutter bee, will get better houses that will augment their numbers through a University of Manitoba open competition.

Did you know?, Local news

Building a better beehive

The University of Manitoba has opened an international competition aimed at giving bees better housing

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 21, 2016

Wild bees need homes too. That’s the simple idea behind an international design competition opened by the University of Manitoba on Mar. 1. The competition hopes better housing for the beleaguered insects will help address a pressing biological issue — their declining numbers. Bee houses were chosen as the focus of the competition because they

An apiarist covers beehives on a truck after his bees completed pollinating a blueberry field near Columbia Falls, Maine in June 2014. Honeybees are estimated to pollinate plants that produce about a quarter of the food consumed by Americans, including apples, watermelons and beans.

News

Vital to food output, pollinators face rising risk

A new global study explores the concerns over pesticides and loss of habitat

By Alister Doyle March 15, 2016

Bees and other pollinators face increasing risks to their survival, threatening foods such as apples, blueberries and coffee worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the first global assessment of pollinators showed on Feb. 26. Pesticides, loss of habitats to farms and cities, disease and climate change were among threats to about 20,000 species

Most bee deaths from neonics in Canada have been in the intensive corn-growing areas of Ontario and Quebec.

Crops

No neonic ban expected in the West

In Ontario, the treatments won't be allowed in 2017 unless a demonstrated need exists

By Jade Markus November 3, 2015

Restrictions on neonicotinoid-based pesticides in Ontario have generated concerns amongst grain farmers in the province, but Manitoba industry participants don’t expect similar policy to move west any time soon. Laws restricting neonicotinoid-pesticide use were introduced in July. The Grain Farmers of Ontario had hoped to enact a stay on the regulations through court proceedings, but

Daily Network News

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Federal gov. funds youth employment in agriculture, agri-food

Pulse Weekly: StatCan projects fewer pea and lentil acres

Tag Archives Beekeeping

Bee die-offs from multiple causes

Postal workers pledge to move bees, chicks if striking

Non-crop plants source of most pesticide contamination of bees

Mites could play role in variable bee losses

Beehives to go high tech

Insect habitat campaigns reaching goals

App promises better communication between farmers and beekeepers

Building a better beehive

Vital to food output, pollinators face rising risk

No neonic ban expected in the West

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