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Updated: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:14:26 -0400
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The University of Nebraska will be holding a seminar on BEEKEEPING VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS WORKSHOP on June 12-13 at the Agricultural Research and Development Center (ARDC) in Ithaca, NE.

Click read more to see the info, and you can download their brochure here (PDF).

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From the April 2007 NC Agricultural Review

State developing plan to protect bee industry if Africanized bees arrive in N.C.

Albert Einstein once said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live.”

According to an article in the Mar

BY JAMES E. TEW, Ph.D.
(reprinted with permission from the AMA Meadmaker, Summer 1987)

In 1957, a project was undertaken to establish a more productive honey bee in Brazil. Queens from various parts of Africa were imported to San Paulo, Brazil and introduced into colonies in experimental apiaries. For reasons not totally understood, 26 colonies were freed from restricting devices and

Part 1: Earth Life Threats - Alarming Disappearance of Honey Bees
© 2007 by Linda Moulton Howe

"This is certainly the worst die-off that I've seen in my experience working
with honey bees. It may be the worst die-off that has ever occurred with honey bees
since they've been introduced into the United States since the 1620s."

- Maryann Frazier, Honey Bee Specialist,

Science Daily — Van Morrison sang about it, Peter Fonda starred in a movie about it, and people from all over the world will pay top dollar just to get some of it.

It's tupelo honey, a honey so distinct, light and smooth that people describe it as they would a fine wine. But the future of tupel






 

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