Honey bee colonies under threat

[maureenho]

Honey bee colonies under threat from disease and predators

Chris Hill, Agricultural, food and farming editor
Sunday, April 19, 2015
7:00 AM

A national bee health seminar will be held in Norfolk next month to address the raft of diseases and predators threatening East Anglia’s hives and colonies.
As summer approaches, the busy hum of honey bees will grow into a chorus of industry in our region’s fields and gardens.

But these hard-working foragers are under threat from an increasing array of disease and predators – enough to prompt experts to arrange a national meeting to discuss the protection of hives and colonies.

The Norfolk Beekeepers’ Association (NBKA) will hold its Bee Health Seminar at Easton and Otley College on May 23, organised in conjunction with the National Bee Unit (NBU).

Topics under discussion will include European and American foulbrood (EFB and AFB), both notifiable diseases which are highly infectious and deadly to bee colonies.

On the horizon, there’s the potential arrival of two predators: The Asian hornet, now established in France, and the small hive beetle, which is present in Italy and could come into the UK via bee imports.

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[wendy]

I keep seeing bees dying in my garden and the big bumble bees appear to want to keep coming into my house.
I dont like seeing them like this.

[annie]

I hope they can overcome the diseases , as this will be a great threat to our flora

[Rosalind]

Hope they can do something to help the honey bee, would be awful for them to become extinct.

[maureenho]

The human race would not survive without bees.