Asian Apicultural Association

The Asian Apicultural Association (AAA) is now established as described in the previous Newsletter. To join, please contact AAA at the address below* unless you have already done so.

The membership fee is US$20.00, but do not send this at the moment. A chapter of AAA in your country will collect the membership fee

The formal establishment of AAA will be at the Apimondia Congress in Yugoslavia in September. Please gather to celebrate our foundation! You will have several newsletters containing local Asian information on honeybee sciences and apiculture, as well as world-wide ones which refer to Asian aspects.

* Please see the Asian Apicultural Association website for up to date contact details.

Call for transparencies

The Institute of Honeybee Science, Tamagawa University plans to publish a set of postcards of Asian honeybees, celebrating the establishment of AAA. Attractive colour transparencies which illustrate apiculture or bees in Asia {including Apis mellifera) are required. A set of eight pictures will appear in the quarterly journal Honeybee Science (Mitsubachi Kaguku) published by the same Institute.

Send transparencies to the Institute (they will be returned after July). One may win around US$200 per selected picture as well as sets of postcards. We hope to feature pictures of different Apis species as well as beekeeping scenes.