The chemical company Bayer CropScience compensate several hundred beekeepers with a total of two million euros for damage caused by the insecticide Poncho Pro to their hives of bees. According to the minister of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg, Peter Hauck, those affected could reach an amicable settlement by the amount the company after acknowledging that the use of this insecticide in corn plantings had damaged about 11,500 hives and killed the bees.

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With solutions to CCD in short supply, many were hoping the disorder would run out of steam and the key pollinators of U.S. crops would be back to full health in 2008. That hasn?t happened. ?The AAIA did another survey looking at CCD,? said Hayes, assistant chief of Apiary Inspection at the Florida Department of Agriculture, on May 15. ?This year, there?s been an additional 36 percent loss in honey bee colonies over the winter coming into 2008.?

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There was a real buzz of excitement as Marwell Zoo unveiled its latest exhibition to mark National Insect Week. Visitors can get a close-up insight into the life of honeybees through live demonstrations, videos and interactive displays. Experts from Meridian Beekeepers will be on hand until Sunday to explain how a colony of bees work, and at a time when numbers are threatened by a mystery disease, how vital they are to the economy and environment.

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The aggressive bees were confirmed near the town of Tullos on June 17, according to a press release from the State Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

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Is the number EC 597/2008

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Glen Ackroyd is dealing with his most devastating losses in nearly three decades of beekeeping. The Tara-area farmer and owner of Ackroyd's Honey learned this spring that roughly 40 per cent of his honey bee colonies had died over the winter -- the worst death toll in 28 years. 'It's the highest losses I've ever had and almost the worst honey prices we've ever had, so it's been very stressful,' he said in an interview this week. Paul Kelly, a research apiarist at the University of Guelph, said the most current data pegs last winter's bee loss at 31 per cent of all colonies provincewide -- just four per cent lower than the much-publicized loss in 2007 which cost Ontario's commercial beekeepers more than C$5.2 million.

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The secretary of Rural Development Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Trejo said that the institution is located as one of the 10 major producing honey in the country, with a generation exceeding 2 thousand 500 tons annually. 'Today, around 500 thousand local producers engaged in this activity, thereby generating some 75 thousand wages annually. Overall, registered in the last cycle, the economic value of bee activity, for production is 71 million 686 thousand 753 pesos (US$ 7.1 millons), a figure that includes the production of honey, beeswax and propolis, among others. ' Significantly, the major production regions of honey are: the Valley of Morelia, Queréndaro, Valle de Zamora, the Ciénega Chapala, the Valley of Tierra Caliente and the Coast, respectively.

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Losses of up to $ 800 thousand (US$ 80,000) has registered the beekeeping sector by various thefts of boxes of honey, which have affected up to 400 hives that produce up to 800 kilos during 2008. In addition to undermine the goods, thefts have affected their teams containers, which have a cost of $ 1,000 (US$ 100) each, said Jose Ramirez López.El president of the Apicultural System Producer said that it intends to amend the Criminal Code for is considered a felony theft of the product. He asserted that takes 150 complaints to the State Public Prosecutor's Office because of such illegal, but the procedure is not sufficiently rigorous, since the release of detainees quickly.

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This Wednesday June 25, at 08:00 pm, at the conference room of the association for Regional Development and located at street General Lopez No. 744 of Reconquista, will meet beekeepers of departments General Obligado, Vera and San Javier. It will involve the Reconquista leaders, who will report on the first meeting of the Apicultural Council of Advice and Promotion conducted last June 10 at the Ministry of Production of Santa Fe. In addition, seek to provide suggestions on the draft Law of the Apicultural New Law, as well as develop proposals that contribute to the development of our beekeeping.

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Because of the summer which punishes the region of Piaui, about 1 million Italian bees and African fled the Municipality of Sao Joao da Canabrava causing a loss of approximately 28 thousand kilograms of organic honey harvest in 2008.

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