High winter colony losses were among the issues discussed at the semi-annual meeting of the BC Honey Producers Association in late March. “I personally lost between 80% to 90% of my own colonies this winter and I have talked to others who have had the same results and some who have had no losses at …
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Hornet catch has beekeepers vigilant
Washington State Department of Agriculture staff announced this week that an Asian giant hornet was caught in a trap south of Blaine on July 29, but BC has yet to collect any of the insects. That’s good news for BC, says provincial apiculture specialist, Paul van Westendorp. “Our friends in Washington have installed hundreds of …
Giant hornets headline beekeepers’ concerns
PRINCE GEORGE – If you want to catch a bee, ask a beekeeper to help. That’s the strategy provincial apiculturist Paul van Westendorp used when two Asian giant hornets were spotted and captured at a Nanaimo-area apiary in September, and it’s a good thing he did. “This is a totally other creature,” van Westendorp told …