Document prepared by the Veterinary Enrique Zaragoza Simó of Services APIADS technicians. Apicultural Sanitary Defense Group.

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In an act performed yesterday at the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires, INTA was distinguished by the Konex Foundation, with one of the Diplomas of Merit 2008 in the category 'Scientific and Technological Research.' The recognition was received by the vice president of the institution, Dr. Amadeo Nicora.

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Like fans in a stadium, giant honeybees at their nest make big, rippling audience waves, new video shows.And the bee waves are spooky enough to drive away predatory hornets. Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata), unlike western honeybees, form open nests without outer coverings. Thousands of the giant bees cling to each other, sometimes seven layers deep, in a mass around the home comb, says Gerald Kastberger of the University of Graz .

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food (SAGPyA) will provide a space for small domestic companies in the 2008 edition of the International Exhibition of Food (SIAL Mercosur). The Secretariat will have a booth where 6 companies own interior may submit their products and identify new business opportunities. Involving two firms that already obtained the Quality Label 'Food Argentinos, a natural choice': Integrated Supply Formosa (honey) and Apicultural Cooperative Supply COSAR Santa Fe (honey).

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Varroa mites have been found in a beehive near a runway at Hilo Airport, making four beehive sites with varroa mites found within a two-mile-long coastal area. State agriculture department staff collected 2,277 bees at the airport hive Saturday and lab extractions Sunday found one mite. Staff members on Sunday collected another 653 of the hive's bees, which were found to have four mites. Agriculture officials destroyed that hive.

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The specialized journalist Federico Petrera (h) interview in his radio program the Doctor Mario Benedetti (Lavoratory lavet), who talks about the three pillars that provide sustainability beekeeping: Nutrition management and health .

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Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew has pledged to draw up a strategy to rescue Northern Ireland?s vanishing bee populations. The strategy will tackle Colony Collapse Disorder ? or Marie Celeste syndrome.?Later this year I will be commissioning work to start on a local Bee Health Strategy. This strategy will be developed in conjunction with the industry here and will tackle a range of issues that are a priority for local beekeepers including research, training and Colony Collapse Disorder.?

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In 26 years of beekeeping, Ged Marshall has never seen anything as bad as the 2008 honey harvest. A miserable summer that has confined his bees to their hives following a winter bedevilled by deadly viruses means that production this year will be barely a third of its usual level of around five tonnes of honey. Unfortunately for the nation's honey lovers and apiarists, Mr Marshall's experience is far from unique. According to the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA), up to a third of Britain's 240,000 hives failed to survive last winter and spring due to disease and poor weather. The result is a drop of more than 50 per cent in honey production across the country. Mr Marshall, 53, who keeps more than 500 hives around the country from his base in Buckinghamshire, said: 'Everyone is crying out for English honey but there is just very little of it around. Around now we are expecting to harvest heather honey but keepers are opening their hives and finding them virtually empty. The reasons are complex and very much include the impact of disease but the weather has been crucial this year.

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The Greenmarket?s David Graves isn?t the only urban beekeeper in town ? Saskia Cornes reveals that ?a semi-clandestine network of urban beekeepers has grown astronomically in the past year.? Cornes visits a Lower East Side community garden that keeps hives (?One call to 311 and it?s all over,? says the beekeeper), and tells of another keeper who was forced to move his bees when his landlord caught wind of them (the penalty for keeping bees is a $2,000 fine).

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It is number 22, themes: SADA integration and organization: Axis of Argentina beekeeping; National Strategic Apicultural Plan; Exchange Forum; National Laboratory Network; News of Entre Rios, Misiones, Mendoza, La Rioja, Santa Fe, Corrientes and La Pampa ; Sad looking join efforts; Resistance acaricides; Posters; Exhibitions in Lavalle - Mendoza, Tucuman, Saladas - Currents; Global Symposium of Queens Breeders in Mexico; 2 nd National Competition queen bee.

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