The landowner will be doing a major cleanup of the property for a sale. He want all my hives gone by New Years.
Archive for October, 2010
Fall inspection and Forced Harvest
2010
10.17
10.17
I checked on my hives today, found that I have 6 langs and 4 TBH plus one TBH nuc.
Mystery illness wipes out bees on Vancouver Island, BC
2010
10.15
10.15
I received a dark message that something swept through Vancouver Island in Canada last year and killed of 90% of the bee population. That is a massive decimation. This came straight from veteran top bar hive beekeeper, Conrad B
Indian Honey banned in EU
2010
10.13
10.13
An EU inspection team on honey from India showed serious failings on honey safety. Mainly ‘residue monitoring’ as defined in the food safety law 2004/432/EC. So they imposed a ban from India.
I don’t really know how badly this affects Indian honey industry as the native demand is close to the country production.
