Construction on the $16-million Honey Bee Research Centre broke ground Wednesday morning
A new state-of-the-art facility at the University of Guelph will be dedicated to researching, monitoring and educating the public about honey bees, and will beConstruction on the Honey Bee Research Centre broke ground Wednesday morning. The $16-million facility will include up to 200 hives, a research laboratory, a shop for honey and hive products, pollinator gardens and walking tours plus a classroom where honey bee enthusiasts can learn how to become apiculturists .
Honey bees and other pollinators are essential to food production, providing one-third of the pollination necessary for the food we consume.. Honey production alone adds $278-million to the economy, with $44.6-million in exports. However, when combined with the “Bees can only tolerate so many problems at once,” said Paul Kelly, research and apiary manager at the Honey Bee Research Centre. “Climate doesn’t help, neither does exposure to pesticides. These compound the issues, coupling them together, and that’s what overwhelms the species.”
Researchers are therefore breeding honey bees that are better scratchers, which will increase the population of bees with greater resistance to the mites. So far, the breeding program has been implemented in Ontario, with hopes more provinces will follow suit.
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