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Study finds wild bees boost crop yields

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Wild bees and other pollinating insects can make quite a difference when it comes to crop yields, according to a new study. “Our message is not that honeybees are bad — it’s that we could do better if, in addition, we were encouraging more activity by wild insects,” said Lawrence Harder, a professor of biological
Crops, Livestock, News

Shelterbelts the bee’s knees for pollinators

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Bees and insect predators can help boost yields and cut losses, but farmers have to provide a good home

Shelterbelts don’t just keep topsoil from blowing way. They also provide homes for pollinator species, a group that includes butterflies, beetles, birds, wasps, flies – and even monkeys in some countries. But far and away the most effective of all are the bees, said Mark Wonneck, an ecologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. “They are
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It’s a “boy!”

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“Come right away!” I called to my husband at 5 a.m. Hearing the urgency in my voice, he scrambled into his clothes and came to join me. Together we were about to witness a miracle. Two weeks before, a neighbour had come to ask me for a large jar. “What for?” I asked. “You’ll see!”
Forages, Livestock, News

Standing water can lead to drowned bees

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Hot weather might be slowing some Manitobans down, but soaring temperatures have kept leafcutter bees flying high. “Leafcutter bees like the hot weather, more so than honeybees,” said David Ostermann, a pollination expert with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. “Honeybees, if it gets too hot, will shut down, but leafcutters tend to keep going,”
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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
Country Crossroads

Try A Variety Of Plants And Create A Butterfly Garden

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I’m looking forward to when the butterflies – sometimes called “flying flowers” – visit yards and fields once again. One of the most interesting of these is the monarch butterfly, the unusual butterfly that actually migrates, flying all the way from Manitoba to high mountain forests in central Mexico, a distance of nearly 5,000 kilometres.
Crops

Bee Deaths May Signal Wider Pollination Threat

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Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a UN study indicated March 10. Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors
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Stony Plain Honey Producers Walk The Safety Talk

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Honey farming may be sweeter but it’s no safer than any other farm business. That’s why one of Canada’s leading commercial honey-producing families has a living safety plan. Tim and Pam Townsend started TPLR Honey Farms Ltd. at Stony Plain back in 1979. Their son Lee and his wife Elise are now partners in this
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Bee Facts

Pollinators – such as bees, butterflies and bats – are responsible for the continued existence of more than 70 per cent of the world’s flowering plant population. From the production of hybrid canola seed in southern Alberta to the pollination of blueberries in the Maritimes and British Columbia, honeybees are the primary managed pollinator for

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