The World Wildlife Fund?s Mara River Basin Project in conjunction with Musoma District Council has donated modern beekeeping tools valued at about 6m/ ( US$ 5,150) to a number of beekeeping groups here. The groups include Kiuma, Sawata, Siko, Kilimomseto, Kimabi, Victoria, Wazee Group and Mwarobaini ? all based in Musoma District. Others are Tujijenge in Tarime District and Rokongo in Serengeti District. The donation, comprising facilities used for making beehives and harvesting bee products, is meant to boost production of honey and beeswax especially in villages situated in the Mara River Basin. The tools were handed over to representatives of the groups at the end of a week-long intensive training course on beekeeping, and fashioning of beehives at Buhemba Rural Agriculture Centre (BRAC) at the weekend.

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The Lady Ivonne Ortega Pacheco at 1pm inaugurated the XXII American Beekeeping Seminar opened and the XII Expomiel.

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One of the biggest world wide threats to honey bees, the varroa mite, could soon be about to meet its nemesis. Researchers at the University of Warwick are examining naturally occurring fungi that kill the varroa mite. They are also exploring a range of ways to deliver the killer fungus throughout the hives from bee fungal foot baths to powder sprays.

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Zachary Huang, an associate professor of entomology at MSU, said ?One thing we are looking at right now is bee migration,? Huang said. ?Bees are transported by trucks to different locations for pollination, and we are researching what kind of psychological effects that has on the bees.? Other areas of study include researching a type of harmful parasite that hinders a bee?s digestion and can eventually kill an entire colony, as well as a deadly bee disease known as nosema apis. However, Huang said disappearing bee populations may not be able to be traced back to a single cause, but rather could be the combination of several factors.

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A wildlife garden which aims to boost survival rates for bumblebees has opened at the University of Stirling. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust hope the space will act as an example to gardeners on how they can help save the threatened insect.

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No beehive products reported this week

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Highly-publicized incidents of food-borne illness in the United States in recent years have revealed that in spite of established industry practices for safely packaging food, failures do occur, and food products sometimes become contaminated. The subject is addressed extensively in a new report on ?traceability? published by the Center for Agricultural Business (CAB). The CAB is a research facility overseen by the California Agricultural Technology Institute at California State University.

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Those interested in making online donations to UC Davis to help save the honey bees can access the UC Davis Department of Entomology Web page. Or, checks may be made out to ?UC Regents? and mailed to the UC Davis Department of Entomology, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 USA.

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Construction of the International Apitherapy Centre in Mereni, Romania (near Bucharest), is almost 95 percent completed. In a few months it will be able to receive students and experts in Apitherapy from around the world.

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When bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey of the University of California, Davis, travels to Turkey in August for a monthlong series of scientific meetings, she plans to bring back semen from Turkey?s native Caucasian bee stock in hopes of enhancing the genetic diversity of the U.S. honey bee population. ?Today we have only traces of this stock in the United States, so it will be interesting to add to our gene pool,? she said. The Caucasian bee (Apis mellifera caucasica), a dark-colored bee, originates from the Caucasus region that separates Europe from Asia.

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