Bees Need Diverse Landscape To Thrive

If you’ve ever complained about there being too many bees around, consider yourself lucky. 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. But they are significantly decreasing in number. By carrying pollen from the male to


Bee Sensitive To Helpful Insects, Urbanites Urged

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,

Race On To Restore Bee Imports

Canadian and U. S. officials scheduled a conference call this week to try to restore queen bee imports from Hawaii, Canada’s largest market for queens, despite the presence of varroa mites. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the U. S. Department of Agriculture were expected to discuss ways to revise an import protocol to allow



Gypsy Moth Considered A Threat To River Trees

Manitoba Conservation will hold public open house meetings to inform the public of options available for containing further spread of the European gypsy moth, which has been identified in areas of St. Germain and La Salle. The European gypsy moth was accidentally introduced to the United States in 1869. It spread throughout the northeast United


One Sweet Home-Based Business

HONEYBEE FACTS Honey is the only food that includes all the substance necessary to sustain life including water. A hive of bees must fly 5,000 miles to produce one pound of honey. To make honey, bees drop the collected nectar into the honeycomb and then evaporate it by fanning their wings. Honeybees collect nectar from

Beekeepers Urge Restraint When Spraying Sunflowers

Manitoba honey producers have launched an awareness campaign to protect their bees from friendly fire coming off sunflower fields. The Manitoba Beekeepers Association is asking sunflower growers to use only certain insecticides when spraying for insect pests so as to avoid harming foraging honeybees. A resolution adopted by the MBA at its annual meeting last


Flowers might perk up ailing honeybees

Honeybees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery “recovery zones” in Europe’s farmlands to aid their survival, a leading EU lawmaker said Nov. 19. Bees pollinate numerous crops and scientists have expressed alarm over their mysterious and rapid decline. Experts have warned that a drop in the bee population could harm agriculture. “If we