BRITISH COLUMBIA LEGISLATURE PROCLAMATION – December 16, 2020 WHEREAS honeybees and native pollinators play a key role in sustaining a healthy environment enjoyed by all British Columbians, and WHEREAS honeybees fulfill a critical role in British Columbia’s agricultural sector through the pollination of crops and flowering plants, and WHEREAS the government of British Columbia has... Read More

“In Defence of Bees” Just Added!  ZOOM WEBINAR with Paul van Westendorp ~ BC Provincial Apiculturalist Join us on Tuesday, October, 27th at 7:00 pm PST for this free webinar. Paul will take questions after his 60-minute presentation. CLICK HERE to REGISTER  

BCHPA Semi-Annual Business Meeting & Education Day March 2020 ~ KamloopsCANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 Dear BCHPA Members & Conference Guests, Although the risk of infection from the COVID-19 virus may still be low in BC, the advice of our Province Chief Medical Officer is to limit gatherings such as ours, to help prevent its spread. In... Read More

The registration for the 2019 AGM, Conference &Trade Show is now open with Early-bird rates available. CLICK HERE for Event details and registration

Peter Awram and Leonard Foster are trying to develop a made-in-Canada solution for quality control of honey. This would make use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), plus possibly the mass spectrometry technology that Leonard Foster’s lab uses at UBC. As part of this effort, they would like to assemble honey samples from across the province... Read More

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Bayvarol is a relatively recent product in Canada to control Varroa. It uses the active ingredient flumethrin. Flumethrin is chemically similar to fluvalinate, the active ingredient in Apistan, which has been used for many years, and to which some Varroa developed resistance. Paul van Westendorp recently advised that some anomalies have recently been found in... Read More