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Bees Without Borders: NYT article
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by jstovall | November 29, 2008 at 05:52 pm
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An interesting article in the New York Times today describes a couple of Connecticut beekeepers (father and son) who have traveled around the world, teaching people how to become beekeepers. Andrew Cote and his father Norm are passionate about bees and beekeeping and rightly say that introducing beekeeping in certain areas of the world can help the local populations stave off starvation.
Andrew, who has about 200 hives and harvests honey by the ton, even went to Iraq in 2005 and help start colonies in several areas. What he said about beekeeping in Iraq is particularly interesting.
Before the 1991 Gulf War, there were an estimated half a million hives in Iraq. After all those oil field fires and smoke, and this current war, there are about 20,000. Mobility is extremely limited, and beekeepers can’t get colonies to the citrus groves where they’re needed, or to the lush areas in Kurdistan.
Read the entire article:
Gerri Hirshey, Sharing a Taste of Honey, on an International Scale, New York Times, Nov. 28, 2008.
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at 18:24 on November 29th, 2008
This is amazing - I think bees are so important to our ecosystem - more than people realize.
at 19:17 on November 29th, 2008
The Bee is one the World oldest insect and has a vital function in our eco system.
at 21:36 on November 29th, 2008
Wonderful reporting on a very important subject...
at 21:46 on November 29th, 2008
Once the bees are gone, we can always buy GMO seeds, and then we can join the bees.
Only 20,000 bees in Iraq. How does anything grow there?
at 00:07 on November 30th, 2008
Bees suffer problems everwhere from toxic agricutlture stuff to bee-eating mites. France almost no bees for 2 years. Our agriculture using the most pesticides of Europe.
at 01:39 on November 30th, 2008
We have created a very difficult environment for bees -- as you well know. Yet bees are absolutely necessary for our food supply. More power to these guys who try to get beekeeping going in other countries.
We need more beekeepers here in America.
I have been keeping them for a couple of years in Tennessee. Check out Honey Dot Comb, my beekeeping blog.