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The NOD R&D Team has been keeping busy with all types of varroa monitoring this summer. 🔬📝 Using three key methods, including: alcohol wash, sticky board counts, and brood biopsy, the team tracks mite levels for a number of studies we have underway this year.
While not very popular with your average beekeeper, using a brood biopsy to monitor varroa mite infestations offers extra detailed data that is an important part of our research. Brood biopsies are an in-depth, tedious process that require a steady hand and A LOT of data collection.
Donning their super-nerdy 🤓 spectacles (and lots of coffee!), Dr. Heather, Hannah, and Liam randomly select sealed drone and worker brood cells to open up. They mark down key observations, such as presence of live or dead varroa mites, and what type of mites they are (immature, mature; male, female). These data are used, among other things, to understand some of the intimate relationships between varroa and viruses in honey bee colonies.
We know this type of monitoring is not for everyone. Let us know: which method do you use to monitor for varroa mites?
First honey extraction of the year! 🍯 Our Layens hives were bursting at the seams so we harvested around 100 pounds of early summer honey from one of our bee yards. It’s a light amber colour and Hannah, our Beekeeping Education & Technical Coordinator, says it has "warm spicy notes with a hint of anise on the palate." The rest of NOD R&D team says... it tastes like honey! 😋
#honey #beekeeping #honeybees #apiculture #nodapiary #healthybeeshealthyplanet #layenshive
When it comes to landscaping, a little effort (or lack thereof!) can really help our pollinator pals and support biodiversity. In honour of #PollinatorWeek, we put together a blog including Six Easy Landscaping Tips to Benefit Pollinators. These general guidelines can be applied to any location + we added links to regional guides for planting native species 🌱🌿🌻🌵🌸. With these simple changes in habit, we can change habitats!
Click the 🔗 link in our bio to read our blog on How to Benefit Pollinators in Your Yard.
#PollinatorWeek2024 #Pollinators #Biodiversity #Honeybees #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet
Pollinators are critical to our diverse food chain—from almonds to watermelons to chocolate! To celebrate #PollinatorWeek, we planned special snacks for the NOD team this week—all foods we couldn`t enjoy without the help of our precious pollinators. We munched on apples, blueberry muffins, cherries, chocolate, and coffee (as always!)
You may be surprised at how many everyday foods are supported by pollinators. A few examples with their pollinator-pals:
🍏 Apples: honey bees, blue mason orchard bees
🥑 Avocados: bees, flies, bats
☕ Coffee: stingless bees, other bees or flies
🫐 Blueberries, over 115 kinds of bees, including bumblebees, mason bees, mining bees and leafcutter bees
🍉 Melon: honey bees, squash bees, bumblebees
Want to see what other foods we can thank pollinators for? Click the 🔗 link in our bio for the full list of pollinated foods from @PollinatorPartnership
#PollinatorWeek2024 #pollinators #pollinatorpicnic #NODapiaryproducts #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #healthyecosystems #honeybees
Get in the spirit of #PollinatorWeek by helping to contribute to biodiversity monitoring from your own backyard! 🤓 We`re excited about the free app from @iNaturalistorg, who are conducting a citizen science project on pollinator abundance and distribution in North America. Share your photos of pollinators visiting flowers—from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed. Your uploads are used to help scientists better understand pollinator diversity and the flowers that support them, and contribute to scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 🌎
Click the 🔗 link in our bio for the @iNaturalistorg website to learn more about the project and download the app. 📲
Let us know in the comments what unique pollinators you`ve seen in your gardens this year! 🐝🦋🦇
#NODapiary #healthybeeshealthyplanet #pollinatorweek #pollinators #healthyecosystems #honeybees #honeybeeresearch #pollinatorresearch #biodiversity
Last spring, our Honey Bee Health Researcher, Dr. Heather Broccard-Bell, put together a blog exploring the important role pollinators, including honey bees, play in maintaining healthy ecosystems. With this year`s Pollinator Week theme revolving around ecosystems, we thought it would be a timely reshare. Click the 🔗 link in our bio to read Dr. Heather`s blog. 🐝
#nodapiary #healthybeeshealthyplanet #pollinatorweek #pollinatorweek2024 #pollinators #healthyecosystems #honeybees #honeybeeresearch #pollinatorresearch
Happy Pollinator Week! This year`s theme set by @PollinatorPartnership is "Vision 2040: Thriving ecosystems, economies, and agriculture," emphasizing the crucial link between food production, ecosystems, and economies, with pollinators serving as vital contributors to this connection. Keep an eye on our socials this week as we share more information on this connection and how you can help strengthen it!
Want to read more about “Vision 2040”? Click the 🔗 link in our bio to read more from pollinator.org
#NODapiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #PollinatorWeek #PollinatorWeek2024 #Pollinators #HealthyEcosystems #PollinatorConservation
Yesterday was a multi-swarm day for our R&D team! Hannah and Dr. Heather collected two morning swarms and another in the evening. They worked swiftly and gently to bring them back to hives in our bee yards. As the saying goes, "A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon!"
Comment below to share if you`ve caught many swarms this year yet? 🐝🐝🐝🐝
We were busy bees while out west in Creston, BC! 🐝 ⛰️ Our friends at @honeybeezen hosted us for a Varroa Management Workshop, and Dr. Heather and Tom got to soak in the stunning scenery while capturing some photos for our company. A huge thank you to Honey Bee Zen Apiaries for generously sharing their beautiful bee yards with us. Check out a little behind-the-scenes peek of our photoshoot—and keep an eye out for these new photos soon! 👀
#NODapiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #healthyecosystems #pollinators #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #photoshoot #britishcolumbia
The warmer weather is here in North America, ☀️ which means you should be monitoring (and likely treating) your bees for varroa mites. It`s important to regularly check all your colonies throughout the beekeeping season. We recommend monitoring monthly—because staying on top of varroa mite levels can make a big difference in your season! ⬣🐝
Monitoring for varroa mites pre- and post treatment will determine efficacy of your mite treatment. There are several ways to monitor for mites including: sticky boards, ether rolls, brood biopsies, and one of our preferred methods: the simple, cost-effective alcohol wash.
For a quick refresher on how to perform an alcohol wash, scroll through these key steps or click the link 🔗 in our bio to see a step-by-step video.
#NODapiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #formicpro #varroa #varroamite #ipm
Our team travelled west to beautiful BC this week. ⛰️☀️ Tom and Dr. Heather joined our friends at @HoneyBeeZen in Creston, BC to host a Varroa Management Workshop. They helped answer local beekeepers` questions about how to effectively treat for varroa mites with various treatment methods, and offered tips for using our product, Formic Pro.
This informative workshop was admission by donation with all proceeds benefiting the Boone Hodgeson Wilkinson Trust Fund, a foundation that supports education regarding honey bees and apiculture research.
#NODapiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #healthyecosystems #pollinators #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #varroa #varroamite #varroacontrol #FormicPro
We’re getting excited for summer! ☀️😎 Our Landscaping Committee has been busy planning pollinator gardens for our head office in Trenton. Earlier this year, the whole NOD team helped by starting seeds inside for a variety of plants and vegetables. Today was perfect planting weather! 🌱
Dr. Heather Brocard-Bell, our Honey Bee Health Researcher, continued her Australia adventures as a speaker at the NSW Apiarists’ Association AGM this week. 🇦🇺🌏
This talk was an informative conversation on “The Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacology of Formic Acid in Honey Bee Hives.” Our team has a lot of information to share when it comes to varroa mite education, and we’re proud to be able to support beekeepers across the globe.
#nodapiary #healthybeeshealthyplanet #healthyecosystems #pollinators #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #formicpro
Dana & Heather are visiting our friends down under to attend various events in Australia. First stop was Sydney, and then off to Wagga Wagga for the New South Wales Apiarists` Association AGM, Conference, and Exhibition! 🇦🇺
Some of the events they’re attending:
👉 Crop Pollination Association (CPA) Annual General Meeting
👉 NSW DPI Varroa Management Workshop
👉 NSW Apiarist’s Association Annual General Meeting & Conference
Dr. Heather Broccard-Bell, our Honey Bee Health Researcher shared her talk on how to succeed with Formic Pro. With the growing invasion of varroa mites, our team has been super-focused on providing Australian beekeepers support and training for how to effectively manage varroa mites in their apiaries. 🐝🌏
#nodapiary #healthybeeshealthyplanet #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #formicpro #conference #australia
Celebrating World Bee Day was extra-special at NOD this year, as it coincided with the Grand Opening of our second facility! 🎉 We`re buzzing with excitement to announce the plans for expansion of operations with a new facility in Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. 🇮🇪
Our flagship product, Formic Pro, is presently manufactured in Canada and distributed to beekeepers in 29 countries worldwide. The expansion of our operations with a second facility, as headquarters for NOD Apiary Ireland Limited, will enhance our manufacturing capacities and ensure timely delivery to the international market. David VanderDussen, our CEO, shares: “The expansion of our local presence with a physical location in Ireland marks a significant achievement for us. This period of growth presents an opportunity to share our extensive experience and expertise with beekeepers and the apiculture industry.” We are proud and excited about this expansion that will allow us to extend our commitment to safeguarding honey bees as we continue to deliver effective, sustainable, and safe products for beekeepers globally. 🗺️ 🐝
A HUGE thank you to the Listowel community for such a warm welcome! Special thanks to our event support: @gra_photography_ @halohealth_ @beachhive_ @simplydevinepreserves @sweettimes4 @prestigefoodsltd1
🔗 Click the link in bio to read the full press release. Stay tuned to our socials as we continue to share the progress of this newest addition.
#NODApiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping #formicpro #Ireland #CoKerry #WorldBeeDay
Today is World Bee Day! 🐝🌍 Let’s take the day to celebrate these incredible creatures, and all they do for our planet.
We all know honey bees for the delicious, nutrient-rich honey they create 🍯 and they are also fantastic pollinators 🌸 Bees help our Earth in 3 critical ways, they:
• Increase food security, through pollinating crops we eat
• Maintain biodiversity of plants, as some plants can only be pollinated by bees (like snapdragons!)
• Conserve ecosystem health; by maintaining biodiversity and helping plants, bees are inadvertently helping regulate climates, purifying air, and more!
We can do our part to protect and support bees by planting diverse, native plants, avoiding pesticides, and protecting wild bee colonies when possible.
Today, we thank the mighty honey bee for how it shapes our world!
#WorldBeeDay #NODApiary #HealthyBeesHealthyPlanet #healthyecosystems #pollinators #honeybees #beehives #apiculture #honey #bees #beekeeping
Join us on June 2 in beautiful BC for an upcoming workshop! ☀️🐝
Tom and Dr. Heather are joining our friends at @honeybeezen in Creston, BC to host a Varroa Management Workshop. This one-day ✨free workshop✨ is designed to provide you with the latest information on how to manage varroa in your colonies throughout the beekeeping season. Learn about Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs, how to sustainably protect your honey bees from pesky mites with the help of Formic Pro.
Details below 👇
Where: 220 Placsko Road, Creston, BC
When: Sunday, June 2nd at 1pm (PST)
Cost: This informative workshop is admission by donation with all proceeds benefiting the Boone Hodgeson Wilkinson Trust Fund, a foundation that supports education regarding honey bees and apiculture research.
Sign up for the ✨free workshop✨ at Honey Bee Zen Apiaries by emailing: amanda@honeybeezen.com to learn more about formic acid.
#honeybees #varroamite #varroa #varroacontrol #beekeeper #beekeeping #canadianbeekeeping
#beehives #apiculture #honeybee #healthybeeshealthyplanet #workshop
👀 LAST CALL to Register for our Beginner Beekeeper Program! Start your beekeeping journey on the right foot with seasonal-training specially designed to introduce basic beekeeping skills to beginners.
You`ll get more than just a workshop. This program includes 8 classes (2 hours each, every other Sunday) in the bee yard and classroom with our experienced beekeeper instructors, Hannah and Heather. No experience or ownership of bee hives is required, just an interest in bees! 🐝🐝🐝
Click the 🔗 link in our bio to sign up today.
Our team enjoyed the sunshine (and the wind) today while we cleaned up our neighbourhood for Quinte Trash Bash, and in honour of Earth Day. Thank you to our amazing team for helping create a cleaner, greener community! #quintetrashbash #nodapiary #quintetrashbash #earthday2024 #healthybeeshealthyplanet #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #goteam
