February 2010 Vol 23 # 1 1 2010 www.honeycouncil.ca Canadian Honey Council Urban Beekeeping CHC Convention Report Fred Rathje Award Plants for Bees Call Mike at 1-866-948-6084 today or email [email protected] Proud sponsor of the Canadian Honey Council E-mail: [email protected] Distributors Lewis Farms, Austin, MB 204-637-2277 Manitoba Co-op Honey Producers, 625 Roseberry St, Winnipeg, MB 204-783-2240 BeeMaid Honey Ltd. 1210 – 100 Street, Tisdale, SK, 306 873-2521 Alberta Honey Co-op, 70 Alberta Ave. Spruce Grove AB, 780-962-5573 One-piece plastic drone comb Canadian Honey Council HiveHiveLightsLights February 2010 Vol 23 #1 The Canadian Honey Council (CHC) is the national organization of the Canadian beekeeping industry Canadian Honey Council`s trade display at the joint ABF and CHC Convention in Orlando, Florida and Hivelights is the industry’s magazine. Our Photo: Geoff Todd association is an “organization of organizations”. The colour of the spine of Hivelights has One of the benefits of belonging to our member changed to blue for 2010 to match the international code for marking queens. organizations is that all members receive a copy of A quick way to remember the code: Hivelights magazine. In order to receive Hivelights Year ending in: you must be a current member of your provincial When White 1/6 association. International subscribers can receive our You Yellow 2/7 high quality magazine for a fee of $50 Canadian per Requeen Red 3/8 year. Get the Green 4/9 Schools, libraries, non beekeepers, university Best Blue 5/0 or government personnel can receive Hivelights magazine through special membership as “Friends of TableofContents Canadian Apiculture”. Please contact the CHC office for more information. 3 Canadian Honey Council Activities ......................... Heather Clay 4 2009 CHC Directors Canadian Honey Council 4 CAPA Outstanding Service Award: Doug McRory Suite 236, 234-5149 Country Hills Blvd.NW 4 OAC Alumni Distinguished Extension Award Calgary, AB T3A 5K8 Professor Ernesto Guzman ................................George Robinson Hivelights is published quarterly (Feb, May, Aug, 5 Provincial Reports .................................................................. CHC Directors Nov). Deadline for submissions are 6 weeks prior 9 Fred Rathje Award ................................................................ Heather Clay to publication (i.e. Dec 15th for Feb issue). For 10 Research Related to the Canadian Pollination guidelines on article submission and advertising rates Initiative (CANPOLIN) ............................................... Ernesto Guzman please visit our website at www.hivelights.ca 12 Urban Beekeeping ................................................................... Allen Garr 13 North American Beekeeping Annual The opinions expressed in the articles printed in Convention Report ..................................................................Corey Bacon Hivelights are those of the authors and do not imply 17 Beekeeping Project in Armenia ............................... Peter Keating endorsement of the Canadian Honey Council for 19 Plants for Bees: subUrban Apiaries ......................Douglas Clay the promotion of any product, goods or services 23 Integrated Management of Nosema mentioned unless specifically stated. & Detection of Antibiotic Residues .............. Stephen F. Pernal, Abdullhah Ibrahim and Andony P. Melathopoulos 25 SBA Receives Multi-year Funding Editor ...................................................Heather Clay 26 Classifieds Design and Production ............... Cristian Campean Advertising enquiries ............................. Geoff Todd Publisher .......................... Canadian Honey Council Printer ..............................................McAra Printing Publication Mail Agreement number 40031644 ISSN 1489-730X Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to CANADIAN HONEY COUNCIL Suite 236, 234 -5149 Country Hills Blvd. NW Calgary, AB T3A 5K8 [email protected] www.honeycouncil.ca (403) 208 7141 www.saveourbees.ca HiveLights February 2010 1 !RELIABLEPARTNER "EEKEEPERSHAVEHADTOBROADENTHEIRMANAGEMENT SKILLSEVENFURTHERWITHINCREASINGCHALLENGESBY DISEASESANDPESTS 7ECANHELPBYSUPPLYINGYOUWITHTHEINFORMATION YOUNEEDTOMAKEINFORMEDDECISIONSABOUTDISEASEPREVENTION ANDTHEROLEOFPHARMACEUTICALSINYOURMANAGEMENTPRACTICES 4VQQMJFSTPG 0YZUFU4PMVCMF 'VNBHJMJO# 'PSNJD"DJE #FF3FQFM "QJTUBO 'PVM#SPPE.JY WWWMEDIVETCA CanadianHoneyCouncil AGM by member organizations. Small Hive Beetle Heather Clay, Chief Executive Officer, CHC The Quebec provincial apiarist has Sponsorship reported that the province has set up creamed organic clover sentinel hives and is monitoring the We are pleased to announce honey. The bottles were SHB issue. The beetle continues to that Odem International shrink wrapped with our exist in the border area but seems to has agreed to renew their logo pure honey 100% have limited reproduction. A research sponsorship for a second Canadian on the front. project has been initiated to examine year. This is a positive Rick Belt of Golden Acres the problem. The CHC is concerned indication that we are on Honey did the packing and that lack of treatment and no plan for the right track. Membership shipping and we thank him extensive inspections may affect our fees account for half our for his assistance. The honey national position on importation of funding and in order to continue samples were given out in return for a honey bees. doing the important activities needed completed questionnaire on US honey for our industry we are seeking more market preferences. Annual General Meeting sponsors support for the coming year. The CHC participated with the The CHC also prepared a new American Beekeepers Federation at Save our Bees has been slowly pamphlet with funding assistance from a joint North American Beekeepers gaining momentum. Donations are the Agricultural Marketing Program, convention in Orlando Florida. It was being sought through our website that gives information on honey for well attended by beekeepers from www.saveourbees.ca and we have health. It has been translated into Canada and the USA and included a growing group of fans on our Spanish for international markets. We visitors from Mexico, Chile, Australia, Facebook page. handed out hundreds of the pamphlets New Zealand, Bermuda, England, at the trade show in Orlando . A Italy, France, Ghana and the Virgin Membership sample is included in this magazine Islands. The general symposium Under the new structure of CHC we and you can order more from the research presentations were excellent are an organization of organizations. CHC office. with many top name speakers. National organizations with a vested ‘Sideliner’ beekeepers were able to interest in honey bees, in addition We also have a new colourful attend concurrent events for special to the existing provincial beekeeper exhibit (featured on the front cover) interest groups. It was sometimes organizations, are eligible for explaining what CHC does and the difficult to choose which session membership in the Canadian Honey importance of the honey bee industry. to attend as there were so many Council. Applications are subject Pierre the Bear is our mascot and interesting topics. to review by the CHC Membership he has made appearances at several Committee. Those associations that shows this year in SK, ON and AB. The ABF and the AHPA have agreed meet established criteria are then He was unable to attend the North to meet concurrently in Galveston considered for approval by the Board American Beekeepers Conference Texas, 4-8 January 2011 and the of Directors. because of new TSA restrictions for CHC has been invited. Given that travelers to the USA. the Mexican National Beekeepers Promotion Organization has committed to attend, CHC is currently finishing one Projects the CHC board is giving the idea of an project on marketing “pure honey All the projects undertaken by even bigger North American meeting 100% Canadian” at the North CHC have now ended. In the past to be held every 3 years some serious American Beekeeping trade show and we have received assistance from consideration. developing a Long Term International Agriculture Agri-Food Canada to Strategy (LTIS). This project which plan and implement a restructure was partially funded by Agriculture of our organization, to determine Agri-Food Canada allowed CHC the strategies for hive health, queen to have a presence at the Orlando bee importation protocols, to get convention where producer, packers, consensus on honey labeling, to importers and exporters were able to develop a long term international see and taste our quality product. strategy and to develop a C-BISQT Executive members of the National manual for on farm food safety. The Organisation of Mexican Beekeepers The trade show booth featured five board has decided to limit projects in Delegation at the North American types of honey- clover, buckwheat, the future so that the CHC can focus Beekeeping Convention blueberry, creamed canola and on resolving resolutions brought to our Photo: Geoff Todd HiveLights February 2010 3 2010 Directors Canadian Honey Council CAPA Outstanding Service Award: Doug McRory Conseil Canadien de Miel Chair Director Corey Bacon Dan Walker Saskatchewan Beekeepers Association Ontario Beekeepers Association B’s Bee Ranch 9327 Scotchmere Dr Box 84 Strathroy ON N7G 3H3 Kinistino SK S0J 1H0 ph 519-245-5361 ph. 306-864-3774 fax 306-864-3260 [email protected] [email protected] Director Vice Chair Bruce Podolsky