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Honey Bee Nutritional Requirements
Our Changing Landscape
What is Going on out there on the Prairies !?
• Brush up a bit on Bee Nutrition –Healthy Bees - Strictly from a Beekeepers Perspective
• Speak on our changing prairie landscape and its effect on bee nutrition – Healthy Environment
-Strictly from a Beekeeper/Farmer Perspective
• Initiatives working to address the loss of biodiversity
• What can we do as Beekeepers to address the issue
Feel Free to Comment or ask Questions!!
Healthy Bees
Why does it Matter?
HEALTHY BEES = MORE HONEY MORE HONEY = MORE MONEY
Bottom Line
Balanced Diet
Pollen is our bees Primary Source of Nutrients Protein, lipids (fats), vitamins, sterols, minerals, and micronutrients Every Pollen Source Provides different Nutritional Value
deGroot’s Ratio of Essential Amino Acid
deGroot’s Randy Oliver’s Amino Acid Ideal Ratio Adjusted Ratio Threonine 3 2 Valine 4 2.5 Methionine 1.5 1 Leucine 4.5 3 Iso-leucine 4 2 Phenylalanine 2.5 2 Lysine 3 2.5 Histidine 1.5 1 Arginine 3 2 Tryptophan 1 0.5
Pollen Analysis
Balanced AA Profiles Poplar, Willow, Apple Clover, Canola, Alfalfa Unbalanced AA Profiles Sunflower, Dandelion, Buckwheat, Blueberry
Diversity Is KEY
To a Balanced Diet
DANDELION
Poplar
Willow
Saskatoon
WILD PLUM
APPLE PEAR
Choke Cherry
Maple
Hawthorn ALFALFA
CLOVER CANOLA
ALFALFA GOLDEN
ROD
SUN FLOWER
THISTLE
Beekeepers need a Healthy
Environment
Why does it Matter?
HEALTHY ENV. = LOTS OF FLOWERS LOTS OF FLOWERS = HEALTHY BEES HEALTHY BEES = MORE HONEY MORE HONEY = MORE MONEY Bottom Line
Lloyd Harris
The Glitch Towards Achieving Proper Colony Buildup
Our Changing Agricultural Landscape
Agriculture Is Changing
RnD Invested into Agriculture Technology Available-efficiencies Bigger Better Farm Machinery Allow Farmers to Farm Better
It Has Changed the Landscape
GM Technology
RR Technology
GPS Precision Chemical Farming
More HP, Larger Equipment,
Ability to clear, flatten and Drain Land
A Landscape Completely Dedicated to Crops Our Honey bees Have been Forgotten
Poplar
Willow
WILD PLUM
Maple
DANDELION
Saskatoon APPLE
Choke Cherry
ALFALFA CLOVER CANOLA
ALFALFA
GOLDEN ROD
SUN FLOWER
THISTLE
Malnourished Animals =Sickly Animals
Parasite
Pesticide Exposure Beekeeper Applied Farmer Applied
Weather Winter
Viral Infections
Malnourishment =Sickly Bees Unable to cope with stress factors
Fungal Infections
We are Creating an Imbalance across our
landscape
Farmers are DOING OUR JOB
We are FEEDING THE WORLD
$$$
Society Has Driven That Direction
Cheap Abundant
High Quality Food
Dilemma…Farmer/Beekeeper
My bees need space and the diversity of flowering plants (weeds)
My bees need Nature to exist to sustain colony maint. and growth
My bees need reprieve from continuous chemical exposure
My bees need farmers to make money on flowering crops = more flowers
My farm needs to adopt the latest tech to glean efficiencies (RR Tech)
My farm needs to control all weeds, diseases and insect populations
My farm needs to manage noxious weeds around the edges
My farm needs to utilize the land, improve the soils (drainage) to increase revenues per acre (cost of land, cost of land taxes)
Dilemma…Farmer/Beekeeper
We need to work to find BALANCE
Beekeepers need to understand the need to farm
Farmers need to understand that nature must exist
What is being done?? to address
Monoculture and the loss of biodiversity
Manitoba Forage and Beef Initiatives
MFBI is a collaboration between Manitoba Agriculture, Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP), Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association (MFGA) Pollinator Habitat Preservation and Rehabilitation Projects Syngenta Pollinator seed mix General Mills/Cheerios, Xerces Society and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Sponsoring projects to determine how to establish pollinator habitat within tame pasture SOD
ALUS (Alternative Land Use Services)
ALUS Canada’s mission is to enable Canadians to provide direct support to a national network of farmers and ranchers delivering ecosystem services in their communities, including clean air, clean water, carbon sequestration, erosion control, flood mitigation, pollinator support and wildlife habitat.
The flag ship of sustainable land development
ALUS (Alternative Land Use Services)
• ALUS is farmer-delivered
• ALUS is community-developed and Intergraded: • Collaboration of farmers, municipalities, conservation groups, farm associations and
government agencies (we are all stakeholders of our environment stewardship)
• ALUS is targeted: • -focuses on marginal and ecologically sensitive parcels of land
• Focus around the edges, not to interfere with farmers farming their land
• ALUS is market-driven: • Through ALUS Canada, citizens, corporations and philanthropists can invest directly in
Canadian environmental stewardship, one acre at a time
ALUS PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Prince Edward Island is the first province in Canada to have a provincially supported, province-wide ALUS program.
PEI’s Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program was launched in 2008 and today has more than 415 clients.
PEI Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the PEI Department of Communities, Land and Environment
Industry Investment
• Bayer Bee Care North America • Internal testing of chemicals
• Monsanto Honey Bee Health • Varroa mite RNA Interference
• Syngenta Canada • Pollinator seed mixes
Farmer Profitability/beekeeper profitability
What am I Doing about it?
Feeding My Bees
Maintain colony growth throughout pollen dearth
Focus on 2 important times of colony growth and development
Focus on the 2 most important times of the year Spring -winter - summer Fall Summer-winter These two time of the year just so happens to be the most inconsistent times of the year in regards to conditions and forage availability
#1 Spring time growth
May 10 th Spring nests establish a 4-5 frame nest, Fresh pollen coming in, reserves, We are making a 2 lbs patty round, Bees are not taking the patty because the fresh pollen coming in….until Heather Mattila
May 18 2015 1 ½ week of cold wet windy weather sets in and those 4-5 frames of brood nest put the colony into instant protein stress Just about to make the split I cant have the nest fall backwards Hives devoured the 2 lbs on those hives within that week. The brood nest carried forward
May 18 2015 1 ½ week of cold wet windy weather 5-8 frames of brood, on the verge of staring our split round… 2 lbs of patty devoured within that week of confinement.
Feeding Protein Patties
Many MANY different Brands of protein patties available at BeeMaid Home made patties: 10 Brewers Yeast 10 Soy flour 5 dried egg 5 irradiated pollen 1/2 Cup of lemon Juice 1/2 Cup of canola oil 20 HFCS or mixed until desired consistency
Use the Supplement to complement naturally available pollen
#2 Development of the Winter Nest
My focus on fall supplemental feeding is to ensure my winter stock have adequate fat reserves to hold onto into spring
Thank You for your time! Questions? Comment?
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