http://www.michiganbees.org Thu, 17 May 2012 13:30:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Request to Participate in Pesticide Research Survey http://www.michiganbees.org/2012/request-to-participate-in-pesticide-research-survey/ http://www.michiganbees.org/2012/request-to-participate-in-pesticide-research-survey/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:35 +0000 Stephen Tilmann http://www.michiganbees.org/?p=3020

Dear Members of the Michigan Beekeepers’ Association,  

My name is Sandra Bustos, I am research assistant at Pesticide Research Institute and we are working with beekeepers from around the country to look at some of the effects of pesticides on beehive health.
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I dedicate these photos to my mother who is always hardworking, as the bees on these irises.
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers!

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Photos taken on May 7th, 2012. I spent about two hours shooting peonies, hawthorn and indigo …

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What do they have in common?

They all bloom around the same time, and yes, have bees!

I had not seen apricot flowers, let alone bees foraging one them. So I was naturally excited to see apricots blooming everywhere in …

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Obviously it would be a yes! but I have never seen bees on them in my own garden. Right now ants are working on the unopened bulbs of peonies. But I know that bee do forage on them because last …

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Don Schram
Secretary, Michigan Beekeepers’ Association

Hello Beekeepers,

The calls pledging help are rolling in, and the MBA greatly appreciates all the efforts that everyone is going through to help one of our own in the beekeeping community.
 
We’d …
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Don Schram
Secretary, Michigan Beekeepers’ Association

Hello Beekeepers,

Watching the news, I’m sure you’re aware of the disastrous flooding that has occurred in the mid-Michigan area near Flint in the past couple days.  We’re receiving reports that high flood waters claimed the
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Greetings MBA members
 
Here it is that time of year again when we are all hustling to get our bees ready for spring and the upcoming honey flow.  Hopefully everyone has a great winter survival rate and now is the time
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The following was passed on to us by Doug McRory, retired Ontario provincial apiarist.  Many people in the MBA may remember Doug as he was a featured speaker at our 2010 fall meeting.
 
Scientists with the Harvard School of …
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I cannot resist to post a few of these amazingly beautiful bees though.

1. Apis dorsata foraging on a Salix.…

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The following news released was provided to the MBA courtesy of Mike Hansen, State Apiarist…

VONORE, Tenn.– Tennessee’s first case of partially Africanized bees was confirmed through genetic testing last week in a colony belonging to a beekeeper in Monroe …

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