by Wally | Dec 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Australian Bees Banned By APHIS By Alan Harman With little public fanfare, the United States has banned the importation of honey bee queens and package bees from Australia. Minister Counselor (Agriculture) Simon Smalley at the Australian Embassy in Washington and a...
by Wally | Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
In 2007a team* was formed to search for the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Using mass spectrometry-based proteomics, a technique modified by the military for screening samples for pathogens, they found a fungus and an unusual virus associated with samples from...
by Wally | Apr 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Members of the International Sisterhood of Egglayers, Local 1851, are set to vote this week on a strike action against SweetBee Honey Corporation. At issue is SweetBee’s new mandatory retirement age of two years for queen bees. The policy was announced on March 1, and...
by Wally | Mar 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
New York City, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Denver…There’s no telling which city or county will be next to allow bees, beekeepers and beekeeping in backyards, on rooftops and vacant lots. But there are still a host of cities and towns and other places that haven’t seen the...
by Wally | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
As beekeepers, honey packers, and importers our challenges seem to grow faster than we can produce honey. The ever-evolving and complex schemes devised to enter honey into our market without paying the U.S. antidumping duty on Chinese honey imports is mind-boggling,...