http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09...ent_6136106.htm
Китайский пчеловод показывает трюк -- "борода из (роя) пчел"

Неоднократно встречал подобные картинки в западной прессе.
Вот счас -- в Китае.

Итересно, среди форумчан кто-нить такое практикует?

Кто-то делал вроде из прибалтики, кажется тот форумчанин, что увлекался пчелоужалением в точки акупунктуры. У его даже и аватар был с бородой из пчёл. Говорит покусали добре - скорую вызывали потом.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/...71008183309.htm -- Забавно.
Говорят -- чем с бОльшим количеством трутней матка спарилась, тем лучше ее принимают пчелы.

В принципе, логика есть. Только как они это определяют "технически"?...

На сайте Жиль Фера(фран. матковод)тоже это упоминается. Он даже делал опыты с ИО,т.е.брал сперму не от 8-15 трутней в шприц,а сразу от 40-60шт.Смешивал,осеминял....и немного пачкал матку спермой,затем повторно усыплял,что бы подсохла.....Ну и подсаживал.....,и из его рассуждений, получался приём искуственниц много лучше Видно пчёлки когда чистят и кормят "прилетевшую,уставшую" матку чувствуют этот запах

По запаху, то есть по количеству выделяемых феромонов.

Вот в очередной раз встретилось "The bees and the birds..." или "the birds and the bees..."

Я давольно долго не понимал о чем идет речь, когда англоязычные люди произносят это словосочетание и при этом улыбаются.

Потом потихоньку разобрался, а относительно недавно в википедии появилась статья на эту тему.
Мне показалось забавным.
Может и честнОй компании будет небезыинтересно.

Так вот вкратце -- "птички и пчелы" -- это содержание метафорического объяснения, которое урожденные англоговорящие используют для введения детей в курс дела на предмет ссексуальных отношений и их последствий.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

Новый мультик про пчел.
Про то как одиН ПЧЕЛ пытается восстановить сраведливость в отношениях людей и пчел
Так и называется "Bee Movie"

Интересно, когда появится в русском переводе?
В остальном мире на экраны выходит 2-го ноября.

Здесь есть кусочки и пр. http://www.beemovie.com/

Ну да. У "рускоговорящих"-то немного по другому говорят: "тычинки и пестики". При этом упирают на стово "ТЫЧИНКИ". Про пчёл, которые "держат свечку" почему-то забыли.

Спасибо, Docent. Скачал здесь много чего детям.

У нас в Подмосковье (Щёлково) этот мультик выходит в кинопрокат 01.11.07 под названием "Би Муви: Медовый заговор". Весь остальной мир отстаёт, как всегда...

Надо думать, что пиратские копии в обращении уже пару месяцев.

Забавный мультяшка...Вот только почему то пчелки все "мальчиками показаны"....?
Пиратская версия (экранка)уже ходит.....

Почему важны пчелы, фильм об этом
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/podcasts.html

клик на cilence of the bees

По иронии судьбы в последний набег на столицу машину с мёдом поставил (нечаянно) под рекламным щитом этого мультика:)

Классный мультик, мне и детям очень понравился. Спасибо Доцент за ссылку- там много фрагментов и всякой всячины на тему мультика!


есть там и девочки и тетеньки

Я имел ввиду пчёл сборщиц..... Там они "ПЫЛЬЦУНЫ" (пацаны),.....а так обалденный мультик!!! ,и дублирован отлично, с огоньком и юмором перевод.....!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=137173797 -- вот тут.
Действительно райское место.

Всего пол-лимона евро и "раскрученный" пчеловодный бизнес ваш -- на 700 пчелосемей с землей, постройками и полной механизацией. Плюс контракты на опыление.

Есть желающие?

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>
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Вот такое письмо в недавнем местном листе е-мэйл рассылки. Новозеландский адресат переслал на всеобщее обозрение, типа -- вдруг кто заинтересуется.

Я убрал личную инфу, но от себя скажу -- подобного рода письма шансов на успех имеют... мягко говоря, немного...
Английский надо подтягивать, это не говря о том, что в принципе немного здесь желающих нанимать из-за границы при наличии большого конкурса со стороны представителей прочих стран и народов, в том числе англоговорящих.
Я надеюсь, если автор сюда захаживает, он на меня не обидится.

Вот тут все о меде на сгодняшний день,
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:52 PM

HONEY MARKET REPORT

March 10, 2008

By Ronald P. Phipps

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Introduction

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In his March 9, 2008 front page New York Times article, David Streitfeld writes:

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??Everywhere, the cost of food is rising sharply.? Whether the world is in for a long period of continued increases has become one of the most urgent issues in economics.? Many factors are contributing to the rise, but the biggest is runaway demand. In recent years, the world?s developing countries have been growing about 7% a year, an unusually rapid rate by historical standards.?

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?The high growth rate means hundreds of millions of people are, for the first time, getting access to the basics of life, including a better diet.? That jump in demand is helping to drive up the prices of agricultural commodities.?

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?Rising food prices in the United States are already helping to fuel inflation reminiscent of the 1970s.?

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The international honey market has entered a stage which many may describe as ?crazy.?? Prices are soaring weekly as a result of an international shortage of honey and the absence of Chinese honey from both the U.S. market and possibly other major consuming countries.

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In the March issue of the American Beekeepers Journal, I stated that macro-economic factors were affecting prices for the majority of commodities, including honey.? Those factors are the plunge in the value of the U.S. dollar, and soaring prices for petroleum.? Since that time:? 1) the U.S. dollar has suffered a further collapse in value relative to the euro which has now appreciated since its inception by over 200%; ??2) an increase in the price of petroleum to a historic record, approaching $110/barrel and 3) the decision by the Federal Reserve, hoping to avoid a recession, to sharply and continuously reduce interest rates which, in turn, further weakens the U.S. dollar.? The U.S. economy is haunted by national deficits and the specter of simultaneous recessionary and inflationary pressures.?

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In addition, macro-global weather patterns have led to unpredictable and shifting patterns of agricultural production.? Within this context, honey prices have escalated well beyond the industry?s expectations.

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The U.S.

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The 2007 U.S. honey crop was only 148 million pounds; far below normal for the fifth consecutive year.? That was largely due to drought in the southwest where California suffered both its worst drought in a century and enormous wild fires that extensively destroyed tens of thousands of acres of wild sage plants and buckwheat.? The colony collapse disorder compounded problems for American beekeepers in 2007.

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While it is too early to tell, weather conditions in respect to rain and snow cover are harbingers of much better prospects for a return to a good 2008 American honey crop.? A good crop this summer is essential to stabilize honey prices.

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Very importantly, the carryover of U.S.A. honey has been depleted.? America?s largest honey producers, some of whom had held prior crops, are fully committed at prices which steadily rose month by month as the real situation in respect to both macro-economic conditions and specific supply/demand relations became clear to both American packers and producers.

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While weather conditions in California are better than a year ago, problems with mites and Colony Collapse Disorder have resulted in many beekeepers putting in the almond groves only 30% to 50% of the bee hives compared to a year ago.

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Canada

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In late January, Dr. Ron Fessenden and I spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Honey Council of Canada which was held in Alberta.? Earlier, I spoke to the Ontario Beekeepers Association about the International Honey Market and the work of the International Honey and Health Committee.?

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After the bumper 2006 Canadian honey crop, the 2007 crop was 70% of a normal crop.? Prices have been steadily rising in Canada.? Canadian beekeepers, it is worth noting, are obtaining significantly more income from pollination fees for canola, cranberry and blueberry crops; all of these crops are increasing as a response to world demand for grains, oil seeds and antioxidant rich foods.? Currently, the demand in the U.S.A. for Canadian honey has greatly increased due to the absence of Argentine honey.?

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Current prices for Canadian honey are in the range of $1.25-$1.30/lb. FOB beekeeper.? While there have been reports of? Chinese honey rejected in Canada, those reports, we believe, are exaggerated.

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One important development in the North American honey market is the recent purchase of Billy Bee Honey Products, Canada?s largest honey packer, by McCormick Company.? This purchase promises to have a large and long term impact upon the North American honey market.? Many take this purchase as a good omen for the entire industry since it manifests the fact that a company of the size, financial strength, marketing expertise, sophisticated scientific staff and strong presence in both the retail and industrial trades is interested to participate in the honey industry.? We believe interest in honey is growing in part because of the positive implications for the honey trade of modern scientific research and discoveries that Honey and Health Committee is encouraging and promulgating.

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Argentina and South America

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The 2007/2008 Argentine honey crop is now estimated at 60,000 metric tons plus or minus 10%.? Argentina had a very dry spring followed by a severely cold winter.? Beekeepers were busy restoring their bees as Argentina?s spring set in and were not concentrating on honey production.? The first extraction was late and a disaster, which was not ameliorated by a carryover, since the 2006/2007 crop was only about 70,000 metric tons, representing a reduction from the 2005/2006 bumper crop of about 110,000 metric tons.? The very poor first extraction not only reduced total production, but caused a sharp decline in white honey, including clover and alfalfa honeys.

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As a result of favorable rains, the second Argentine extraction was greatly improved over the first extraction but the honey produced was predominately extra light amber tinged with yellow undertones since much of this honey was from sunflowers.

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The short 2007 honey crops in Eastern Europe left European packers in urgent need to replenish their stocks as they anxiously waited for Argentina?s delayed crop.? The strength of the Euro which was reaching and then exceeding US$1.50 to1 Euro put European packers in a sharply advantageous position relative to U.S. importers and packers, who had to buy and sell in a weak U.S. Dollar.? If Argentina sold honey FOB ? Buenos Aires at USD3,050/MT, that meant a purchase price for European buyers of 2,000 Euro/MT.

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As a result, Argentina?s honey went to Europe with only 1% from old contracts being shipped to the U.S.A.? The duty paid, ex-dock prices of quality honey delivered to European ports from Argentine honey, whether industrial grade or bottling grade, reached about $1.75/lb.? Even though European packers are naturally unhappy with such levels, they are purchasing quality Argentine honey to meet their urgent needs.

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Argentine beekeepers with a short crop in hand that is currently fetching very high prices are offering honey in very small increments hoping for these further price increases.? Some Argentine exporters who earlier sold speculatively are in serious financial difficulty as they are paying beekeepers much higher prices than the selling prices of old contracts they have been struggling to fulfill or compelled to cancel.? Margins are either tight or negative for Argentine honey exporters.

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A recent report that Japan has banned Chinese honey, including the popular Chinese white acacia honey, has intensified the international scramble to find white honey, especially from South America.

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Uruguay has also suffered a reduction to 50% of a normal crop.? Chilean and Uruguayan honeys are obtaining C&F prices in the range of USD1.35/lb.-USD1.50/lb.

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Brazil is becoming a more important player in the world honey market.? Currently Brazil produces about 40,000MT, half of which is consumed locally and the other half exported.? Because of currency considerations, Europe is viewed as the natural market for conventional Brazilian honey.? America and Europe will compete on par for Brazilian organic honey.? Normally Brazil?s honey crop is more or less 50% light amber, 30% extra light amber and only 20% white honey.? In this respect, as well as flavor profiles, Brazilian honey is the polar opposite of Argentine honey

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Brazil has received official word that the European commission will re-open its market to imports of Brazilian conventional and organic honey.? The strong Euro plus the fact that in some European nations 20% of the food is organic has made Europe the preferred destination for Brazilian honey.? Conventional Brazilian Light Amber honey is being sold forward to Europe in very large quantities at around USD1.45/lb., organic Brazilian Light Amber has fetched around $1.50/lb. and organic White Brazilian honey is over USD1.60/lb.? Brazil anticipated and is obtaining price increases of 30%-40% with the re-opening of the European market.? The conditions are expected to persist and intensify at least until the summer of 2008 when European honey crops will commence.? It is an unprecedented situation.? Brazilian offers are becoming more difficult to obtain.

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China

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South, eastern and central China have suffered the heaviest snow and coldest weather of the past 6 decades.? Transportation, electricity and heat were absent in many places for over 15 consecutive days.? This severe cold spell, as noted, hit Afghanistan and the central highlands of Vietnam.? Although there was concern about the impact on Chinese bees, most Chinese beekeepers have a very small number of hives which they brought into enclosures, homes, farms, etc. There are no reports of unusual losses of bees in China as China?s spring crop begins in the southwest.

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But more significantly, inflation has grown sharply in China during recent months, including rising prices for food.? Our government still suffers a huge trade deficit with China and continues to put great pressure on China to strengthen the value of the Chinese currency.? China?s currency has already appreciated 10% relative to the US Dollar and further appreciations are forecast.? The cost of production of Chinese honey in U.S. dollar terms has undoubtedly sharply increased given the serious inflation.

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Most importantly, the closing of the bonding loophole through an Act of Congress, coupled with the increased antidumping rates on Chinese honey exporters, has virtually eliminated Chinese honey from legally entering the U.S.A. market.?

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Issues of quality control and safety of Chinese tires, pet food, medicines, toys, dental implants, seafood, etc., abound in the international press.? China?s failures in quality control reflect both corruption and the miniaturized scale of agricultural production in China that has given rise to a class of ?peddlers? and ?collectors? who collect the tiny lots that the small ?family farms? can produce.

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The collectors or peddlers do not have the capacity for quality control and often have the incentive to adulterate products.? Many people do not recognize how small the farms in China became after introduction of ?family farms? averaging 1 acre per family.? China?s former Premier Zhu Rong Ju, during a visit to the U.S.A., commented on the stark contrast between China?s miniaturized family farms and the North American scale of agricultural production.

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Recently, multi million dollar fines were levied in Australia against companies that brought in Chinese honey via Singapore for re-export to the U.S.A. as ?Australian honey.?? Countries used for transshipment are suspected to include Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Australia.? The penalties in the U.S.A. for deliberate Customs fraud are not civil, but criminal.

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The current upward price tendencies coupled with the absence of Chinese honey from the U.S. market reveal the depressing effect that Chinese honey has had on the U.S. honey market during recent years.

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Vietnam

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Our colleague, Barbara Sheehan, has just returned from Vietnam where she addressed 80 leading members of the Vietnamese honey industry including some scientists.? The conference was held at a university and lasted about 8 hours during which both trends in the international honey market and the exciting initiative on honey and health were discussed in detail.? The Vietnamese are interested to participate in the honey and health initiative which promises to contribute to a positive transformation of the industry, provided there will be adequate supply and high quality honey available to meet the anticipated growth in demand that will result from creative marketing of this marvelous natural product which is acquiring a health message based upon modern science.

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Vietnamese honey exporters are reluctant to offer and are doing so month by month. ?Vietnam, like China and Afghanistan, was hit by severe cold in February which harmed the crop in the Central Highlands.? Vietnamese beekeepers are worried about weakened bees and a weakening U.S. Dollar.? Prices for Vietnamese light amber honey have been rising over the past 2 months and are currently in the high 90?s with potential for further escalation.



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Conclusion

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We all know how hard it is to increase prices for commodities.? But this month petroleum reached $109/barrel and gold $995.? Many packers also realize that when prices are firm:? 1) all segments of an industry benefit; 2) profits for packers increase and; 3) consumer perception of value increases.? The latter is an important and strategic fact that our industry needs to better understand.

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The macro-economic factors described above are converging to create a soaring international honey market and within the U.S.A. the dual phenomena of stagnation and inflation. The facts that we are in a global economy and our domestic honey production is significantly below consumption are contributing to a sharp and sustained increase in the price of honey.? Within this context the high quality of American and Canadian honey and their attractive prices make North American honey the best values in the market.

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The general thrust of the honey market for at least the next 3 or 4 months is concern about availability and adequacy of supply rather than price. But just as low prices discourage production, which leads to increases in prices, high prices stimulate production which tends to reduce prices.? Hopefully, a greater equilibrium between supply and demand will develop during the second half of 2008.



В место восклицательных знаков должны быть точки,

Docent Чего-то я не понял,что автор мыла, приведённого тобой, хотел.....Толи рассказать о себе,толи напроситься на работу,или ещё чего то??? Понял только,что 38 лет,.. и Живёт в С.Петербурге,.... и держал 150 семей(роёв) на Урале..... А чего хотел то...... ????

Анатолий Спб Это был е-мэйл от ищущего работу.
Очень слабая надежда, что этот человек получил хотя бы один отклик.


А вот тут у нас прключилось... Телевидение уже третий день муссирует -- потравились 3 человека сотовым медом. Токсин "тутин" -- содержится в одной местной лиане, в мед попадает как результат сбора пчелами пади, выделяемой одним из видов местных кузнечиков. Условия -- засуха в конце лета и вспышка численности этих кузнечиков -- когда падь не смывается дождями, а у пчел ограниченный выбор медогносов.

Всего в НЗ известны 3 области, где были зарегистрированы подобные инциденты.
Самое массовое отравление было в 1974 году (13 человек), с 1974 по нынешнй -- 9 случаев, последний -- в 1991.

Да... Серьезная антиреклама накануне массовых продаж...

Sunday March 23, 07:17 AM

Man poisoned by toxic honey expected to leave hospital

An English tourist, in a satisfactory condition in Thames Hospital with suspected toxic honey poisoning, was likely to be discharged today.

Joseph Reynolds, 32, ate comb honey bought from the Coromandel area on Thursday morning and hours later started vomiting.


He also had a seizure and was kept in Thames Hospital under observation. The New Zealand Food Safety Authority and Waikato District Health Board yesterday advised all consumers who bought comb honey from the Coromandel area in recent days not to eat it.

Mr Reynolds and his partner Vanessa Whittle, both of London, were holidaying at Onemana Bay, 3km off SH25 on the eastern Coromandel coast, with Vanessa's parents, sister Jo Whittle, 38, and her two children, when the family reunion turned into a nightmare.

Only three in the group ate the honey on bread sandwiches. Joseph Reynolds and Jo Whittle ate the honey on Thursday morning while Jo's three-year-old son Daniel had "a slither" of honey on a sandwich about 8.30 on Thursday night.

Mr Reynolds was the first admitted to Thames Hospital about the time Daniel was eating his sandwich -- while Jo Whittle and Daniel were brought in by ambulance the next day. Daniel also had a seizure. They were treated and discharged.

Ms Whittle said she had never been so scared as when she saw first Mr Reynolds and then hours later her son Daniel suffering seizures.

"From my perspective it was very scary, very frightening."

A feature of Mr Reynolds' seizure was "an awful piercing cry" which was "absolutely terrifying", she said.

During her son's seizure, he went rigid, his eyes were dilated and Ms Whittle said she thought he was going to die.

"It's every parent's nightmare. We consider ourselves very lucky people."

It was only once they were all at Thames Hospital that they realised the common denominator was the honey.

Mr Reynolds, an IT support analyst in London, said he went public with what happened because he would hate to see it happen to anyone else.

The honey comb has been seized by health authorities and will be tested next week.

Any consumers who developed symptoms should contact a doctor immediately and notify them of any consumption of honey within the preceding hours.

"The honey may have had high levels of tutin toxin which if consumed can result in symptoms include vomiting, delirium, giddiness, increased excitability, stupor, coma and violent convulsions," Waikato District Health Board spokeswoman Mary Anne Gill said.

A number of people have been killed, incapacitated and hospitalised over the years from eating toxic honey. The last recorded case from commercial honey was in 1974 involving 13 patients. There have been nine cases since 1974 with the last known poisoning occurring in 1991 in the Eastern Bay of Plenty area.

Two poisonings have been caused by comb honey produced by hobby beekeepers in the Marlborough Sounds in 1982 and 1983 and the highest levels of tutin ever measured in honey were produced in this area.

Symptoms usually develop within three hours of consumption. These honey toxins can be lethal, or make a person very sick. As little as one teaspoon (approximately 10ml) of toxic honey can have a severe effect on the human nervous system.

Beekeepers offering honey for sale are required to complete a declaration relating to the time their hives were producing honey or bee products, for an area up to 3km from their hives.

Consumers who are unsure as to the safety of their honey should contact the producer to confirm that the honey is safe, check with their supplier to ensure the declaration requirements are met or alternatively discard the product.

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority has reminded apiarists that the Coromandel, Eastern Bay or Plenty and Marlborough Sounds are areas where the conditions favour the production of toxic honey under certain conditions.

These include concentrations of numerous tutu bushes, high numbers of vine hoppers, hot dry weather to allow the honeydew to build up on the tutu (rain can wash it off), and an absence of more attractive food sources for bees, usually caused by drought.

Conditions this year are particularly suitable for toxin production.

Beekeepers are required to manage the risk of their honey containing tutin by either removing hives and supers containing honey for human consumption before the risk period, or by closely monitoring the tutu, vine hopper and foraging conditions in the areas within a 3km radius around the apiary while honey is being produced.

А вот про цены:

[NZBkprs] Honey prices‏

Here are a couple more price indicators that people have asked me to share: 1) There is a packer buying Manuka from a beekeeper at $11.50/kg + freight.Full payment within 30 days. 2) There is a beekeeper exporting Manuka honey (in drums) independently at$19/kg. That's ordinary Manuka...NOT active! I still have yet to clarify ifthe price includes freight. These prices are in addition to those (below) reported in my earlier email: 1) There is a packer who is presently purchasing Manuka honey (75%+ pollen %analysis) at $11.50/kg, delivered to their door, with 2 equal payments 30 &60 days after delivery. 2) There is an exporter who has just completed purchases of white clover(0-9 pFund) at $5.25/kg delivered in drums. Full payment on 20th of themonth following delivery. 3) There is an export order of Manuka honey leaving at the end of March. Thebulk return to the beekeeper for supplying the product is $11.00/kg. Fullpayment before shipment. 4) Here is the latest report by a major New York food ingredient broker onthe world and (all important) US honey situation. A good backgrounder: March 2008 "Raw honey prices are rising rather dramatically as a seemingly insatiableworldwide demand for honey and honey products have depleted whatever excesshoney supply was available throughout the world. More and more countriesthroughout the world are utilizing their honey production for their ownneeds, and this coupled with smaller crops throughout the world seems tohave helped diminished any surplus. The U.S. crop alone last year was downto 150 million lbs. This was the smallest U.S. crop in a 7 year sequence ofdeclining crops going back to a 220 million lb. crop in 2000 and a high of235 million lbs. in 1987. Bidding for new honey crops as they enter theworld market has become frantic, and U.S. packers are finding it difficultto compete against the much stronger European euro and other worldcurrencies. Although raw honey prices were expected to continue rising, noone expected the dramatic price increases that we are currently realizing. White honey is leading the way with raw white honey prices already up over30% higher than last year, and indications that price increases of 50 % overlast year could be realized. Extra light amber honey and light amber honeyare following suit." So, come on troops, don't be shy. Share your knowledge & let's hear whatelse is going on in the honey market. Cheers, -- Mark HorsnellSunrise Apiaries Ltd.

Docent, так чего... насмерть что ли?

Да нет, в этот раз живы остались, но пишут, что бывали и смертельные случаи, достаточно чайной ложечки такого мёда, чтобы отравиться.

Docent, а цены не мёд даны в американских долларах?

На сей раз -- нет.
Судороги по телу, расширенные зрачки, потеря сознания.

Откачали всех троих и быстро.

"Но неприятный осадок остался..."


Цены в НЗ долларах (0.52 евро за 1НЗД)

Docent, Рассказал бы лучше о "ваших" (вроде)"Прыгающих муравьях" Или бы ссылку дал...
Просто не успел посмотреть об этом полностью фильм по Дискавери..... , там вроде тоже, один укус, и или труп или инвалид....

А про таких не слышал.

Вообще природа НЗ удивительно "мирная" -- ни хишников, ни толком ядовитых насекомых, ни змей, ни крокодилов.
Приезжий люд, особенно из Австралии, удивляется...
Тут было чего-то с пауками кусучими -- расследовали, сказали, что "залетные" их Австралии и не прижились...

Да,те муракуши из Австралии, я думал,что и у вас они водятся...

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/02/tech-bees.html -- весьма забавная статья в последнем номере Science.

Уверен, скоро появятся неуклюжие (а может и приличные) переводы и перепевки в "бульварных" изданиях.

Животрепещущая тема, журналисты! Дарю!

Вкратце:
Пчелы -- на вершине пирамиды развития сексуальных отношений в обществе.
От примитивной моногамии и заботе только о собственном потомстве, пчелы эволюционировали сначала к заботе о потомстве близких родственников (сестер), потом перешли к заботе о потомстве одной единственной (лучшей!) особи.

Последнее достижение эволюции, оказывается, -- эта лучшая особь, матка, преодолела предрассудки моногамии и стала принципиально полигамной.

Т.е. полигамия -- неотвратимое следствие развития социума.
Этому нас учат пчелы...

Вот интересно было бы увидеть первые русскоязычнве публикации на эту тему.
Что они появятся -- я не сомневаюсь.

Интересно, как в демократическом обществе будут выбирать "особь" для продолжения рода? Выборами? Или в конце-концов общество преодолеет предрассудки демократии ради достижений эволюции? Хочется как-то ощущать себя не у подножия пирамиды сексуальных отношений, а на вершине!

Кошки ,собаки также полигамны у них в помете от разных кобелей и гены сильнейшего преобладают.

Только честно -- теья что больге привлекает?
Всю жизнь носить в себе ведро спермы (в пересчете на вес), а если вдруг "обломилось" (с вероятностью 0.00000001) --- одномоментно расстаться со ВСЕМ сразу?
Или захотелось яйца по 2 тысячи раз в день откладывать?


Вот этого не знал.
В смысле, что в одном помете от разных отцов. Думал, это только в анекдотах про ВИ и Петьку.

В любом случае --српевнование идет на уровне особей или, в крайнем случае -- сперматозоидов, но не на уровне генов.
Т.е. -- геном против генома, а не ген против гена.

Это зависит от уровня получаемого от процесса удовольствия . Хотелось бы конечно повторить и не раз. Но у подножия пирамиды наверно не дадут и разу? Хотя сублимация - хорошая вещь. Удовольствие можно получать и от ежедневного созидательного труда на благо общества.

Интернет гудит!
В Канаде перевернулся грузовик, перевозивший 330 поддонов по 4 улья на каждом с опыления голубики.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/AL...jHYSwsuTkw9JkHA

Новость с удовольствием тиражируется многими СМИ с акцентом на цифре "12 миллионов" -- в такое количество оценили "население" этих 1320 ульев.
Похоже, могли бы накинуть!


Beekeepers help recover 12 million 'nasty' honey bees from NB ...
The Canadian Press - ST. LEONARD, N.B.
LEONARD, NB Beekeepers in New Brunswick had an unenviable task Monday of recovering 12 million honey bees from a truck that overturned on the Trans-Canada ...

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12 million bees released on Canadian highway
The Associated Press -
LEONARD, New Brunswick (AP) Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, ...

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Canada truck crash stirs up 12 million angry bees
Reuters Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A truck containing 330 crates of bees, about 12 million of them altogether, overturned on a major highway near the town of St Leonard, New Brunswick, ...

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12 million bees released on Canadian highway
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
LEONARD, New Brunswick -- Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, ...

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12 million bees released on Canadian highway
Forbes - NY,USA
AP 06.30.08, 12:34 PM ET Some 12 million honey bees were released along Canada's largest highway on Monday after a truck transporting them overturned, ...

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Bees buzz off after lorry crash
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Twelve million honey bees were accidentally released after the lorry carrying them overturned on a Canadian motorway. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a ...
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Дороги что ли у них хуже, чем у нас

Можно посмотреть здесь.
http://www.thestar.com/article/451642

А мои пчелки проезжали мимо них, гогда еще колеса крутились на перевернутом тягоче,

два часа назат благополучно разгрузил.

Теперь понятно откуда ноги растут!
У нас по телеку говорят о 330 ульях.

А они плохо по английски розумеют.

Я чуствовал, что это будет горячая новость на всем информационном пространстве -- уже по количеству возникших анлоязычных публикаций

Ещё бы... Никого уже не удивляет несколько погибших человек (пчелосемей), подавай обязательно тайфун, цунами, землятресение - чем больше погибших, тем дольше можно мусолить новость. Практика информагенств все новости сводить к набору катастроф приводит к эмоциональной тупости их клиентов - нас с вами- ИМХО.

Возможно. Но я бы тоже не смогла понять что такое "330 упаковочных клетей пчел"

В новостях показывали, как корпуса техникой сгребают
Жалко было...

Во халява была налет на своих сделать
А плотность грузовиков с пчелами какова! Я года три назад увидел 2 КАМАЗа с пчелами, так до сих пор забыть не могу, а там не ровен час до лобового столкновения дойдет, аккуратней надо ездить


Да, что-то слабоватые семьи на опыление везут. А по-видимому оплата от семьи ведь

Ну да мухлюют прохиндеи - наделали отводков и айда на заработки

По контракту состояние семьи должно быть не менее 5-6 рам расплода, 8-9 улочек пчел, семьи находятся на поле 3-4 недели без осмотров.


С Онтарио было около 20 гузовиков в среднем 340-380 семей в каждом.

Вчера видел хозяина перевернутого трака, потерял 35% семей, остальные востановились.

Это что. обязательное условие??

Нетю
Но ехать за 1300 км посмотреть- проверить семьи как то накладно.Как правило если матки хорошие, то за это время они вырастают до полного обьёма улья, корпус + магазин, а вот дальше необходимо расширять.

Ай -м -сорри за флейм (раз уж по английски), но ето возму на вооружение.
MishaK советую пойти по пути Прозаика и застолбить копирайт.

you can use it, it is free

да уж. я дальше 40км не вожу ну 1300 это ты немного загнул сбрось немножко от нас до москвы 1000 км.

Если быть точным; от Toronto до Brantville N.B. E9H 1N4-- 1,422 km – about 15 hours 36 mins езды по хайвэю..

1,422 km – about 15 hours 36 mins езды по хайвэю.. ))..........А если по нашим дорогам.то скока?