Bristol County Beekeepers

Dear Beekeeper:
> The Apiary Inspectors of America and the USDA-ARS Beltsville Bee
> Research Laboratory are seeking your help in tabulating the winter
> losses that occurred over the winter of 2009-2010. This continues the
> AIA/USDA survey efforts from the past 3 years which has been important
> in quantifying the losses of honey bees for government, media, [...]

Native Pollinator Workshop April 24 1-3 FREE – Historic Westport Town (Poor) Farm

 
http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/southeast-ma/native-pollinator.html
 
 

http://www.bristolbee.com/wordpress-2.8.4/wordpress/?page_id=173

http://sz0047.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/VarroaMites_155.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=139420&part=2

Early Pollen

Bristol County Beekeepers Association

 www.BristolBee.com

February 2010

President’s Message:

 
Spring has arrived.   After a weekend with 7” of rain here, the sun returned and it was about 70 degrees.  The ice in the cranberry bog ponds has gone out and the bees are flying.

We had a chance to look in our hives [...]

Interesting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7435950/Honey-bees-secret-world-of-heat-revealed.html

More interesting news on Pollination.

http://sz0047.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/JanFeb2010.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=131380&part=2

“The reports that I have gotten from beekeepers is that
about 30% of the healthy colonies that have gone to California -
for this 2010 almond pollination to fulfill pollination contracts -
have died in two or three weeks”  - Jerry Hayes, Asst. Chief,
Apiary Inspection, Florida Dept. of Agriculture

See http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1672&category=Environment