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Piles of dead bees were reportedly two inches thick in front of the affected hives, with others spread over the whole bee yard.
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RCMP investigating after bees poisoned

A Manitoba beekeeper is out thousands of dollars after his bees were the target of truly poisonous wrath

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It’s a sting being felt by beekeepers across province. And now the deliberate poisoning of hundreds of thousands of bees at multiple locations in the Rural Municipality of Elton has left apiarists and the RCMP looking for answers. “We came to the first yard and there were just piles of dead bees all over on
bees in a hive
Crops

Late corn planting sees more bees flying

Keeping bees at bay when it comes to corn planting isn’t always possible, 
but good communication goes a long way

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Manitoba corn growers and beekeepers have been meeting to talk about how to communicate better for the benefit of bees. The Manitoba Corn Growers Association invited members of the Manitoba Beekeeper’s Association to a spring board meeting, to discuss how to best protect honeybees from the pesticides used to coat corn seeds. “Both sides need
Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, April 5

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A honey of a deal It won’t be long now before we’ll start to see a welcome sight — honeybees hovering around spring’s buffet of early-flowering trees and plants. Bees were the buzz at Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council’s recent annual meeting, where Rob Currie, department head of entomology at the University of Manitoba gave a
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Bees Make A Buzz At The Forks Market

Jim Campbell of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association (centre) sets up a display at the ManitobaHoneyShowatTheForksMarketinWinnipeg.P hoto: ShannonVanRaes By Shannon VanRaes Co-operator staff Kids and adults alike swarmed the Manitoba Honey Show early this fall, as apiarists took the opportunity to share their honey and insights. The bees are important to Manitoba, said Ray Hourd, owner
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Small Hive Beetle Detected In Manitoba

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The appearance of the small hive beetle in Manitoba has honey producers concerned about another possible addition to a growing list of destructive pests in their colonies. A live small hive beetle (SHB) was found April 7 among packaging material in a shipment of honeybee queens from Hawaii. SHB larvae have also been detected in
Country Crossroads

Health Canada Advertisement Called Anti-Honey

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A Health Canada advertisement telling parents not to feed honey to infants has produced a swarm of protest from the nation’s beekeepers. The controversial ad features a bottle of honey with a happy bear face. On the bottle is a red circle with a diagonal line through it. A caption reads: “Do you know that
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Bee Sensitive To Helpful Insects, Urbanites Urged

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What do Mount Everest and honeybees have in common? Check out May 29. That was the day in 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to successfully climb the world’s highest mountain. Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand. This year, May 29 was the day proclaimed by Ottawa,
Opinion

Mandatory Membership Requires Significant Common Benefit

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Groucho Marx once joked that he would never “join any club that would accept him as a member.” I think a better principle would be to never join any organization that is forcing you to be a member. The Manitoba Beekeepers Associat ion is at tempt ing to force me to join and pay membership
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Beekeepers Edge Toward Lifting Bee Embargo

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“The varroa mite is completely widespread.” – TODD YAKIMISHEN, MBA Manitoba honey producers have inched a step closer toward calling for the elimination of a 22-year-old ban on imported bees from the U. S. The Manitoba Beekeepers Association is asking for an industry summit meeting on allowing greater access to packaged bees from the continental
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Farmers Still Have Lots Of Crop To Harvest

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“We had four months of spring – April, May, June and July,” he said. “Then we had one month of summer, that would be September. And now we’ve gone straight into winter.” – Calvin Gust If you’ve still got crop out, you’re not alone. Two-thirds of the delegates attending the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) meeting

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