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Winner COVER PICTURE First prize winner

of the First Cera Rica Beeswax Global Contest, Mr Hanbing Yang, President of Beijing Bee Products Co, China is pictured left with Mr Taizo Noda, President of Cera Rica Noda Co Ltd CERA RICA NODA CO LTD

he Apimondia 1999 Congress is aiming to be the best beekeeping meeting ever held.

To achieve this, a programme has been arranged to be attractive for everyone working with bees: beekeepers, pollinators, scientists, project and extension workers, packers, equipment makers, apitherapists and teachers. The programme includes over 30 sessions with keynote lectures, symposia, and paper and poster sessions. There will also be workshops, tours, competitions and displays. The ApiExpo ‘99 Trade Show will be one of the largest ever beekeeping displays, taking place in the spectacular Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre.

So far 26 countries are represented at ApiExpo.

The Congress working sessions are organised according to seven themes: * * Apitherapy Beekeeping Technology * * Bee Biology Bee Pathology * * Melliferous Flora and Pollination Beekeeping Economy * for Rural Beekeeping Development Once again, we anticipate that the Beekeeping for Rural Development sessions will be especially lively! We hope that many readers of B&D will be at the Congress: you are warmly welcomed to participate in the debates, formal and informal, that will inevitably take place throughout the week.

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oday in Senegal you can find a hive - the Vautier hive (named after its inventor) - that is simply

designed, inexpensive, and adapted to African conditions. It allows a beekeeper to produce good quality honey without having to spend lots of money to build it.

With the following information you should be able to build this hive yourself.

Beekeeping could be an important economic sector in Africa, and especially in Senegal. Unfortunately, the lack of

well-adapted techniques and a poorly organised support infrastructure often prevent beekeepers from making the income they wish for. Many projects have failed because the techniques are imported from Europe.

Hives in Senegal Four main types are used: The traditional hive; Hives imported from Europe; The “improved traditional” hive

- for example the Kenya top-bar hive; The modern local hive - the Vautier hive.

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The Vautier hive should be raised off the ground standing on rocks or tyres.

Sometimes bees will directly inhabit the . . hive; sometimes the beekeeper must : . transfer them there (possibly using a bait hive placed high in the trees) .

Management is simple. The bee colony will occupy the volume that it needs.

At harvest time, open the hive, remove the frames that are full of honey, and replace them with new frames. Close the hive until the next harvest.

You can obtain 20-25 kg of honey per year. Within one year of use you can make a return on your investment . . because the materials for making the hive are simple and easily found in rural areas ,

This article has been adapted from the . . original by Karamokho Sakho (National Beekeepers’ Union of Senegal) describing the hive invented by Mr Vautier. First

published in Baobab 27 (December 1998), and reproduced here with kind permission from RITA/ALIN, Casier Postal 3, Dakar-Fann, Senegal.

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There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,

And the ricks stand grey in the sun Singing: “Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the cloer,

And your English summer’s done” Rudyard Kipling The Long Trail

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Is

pollination adequate?

the Tropics

Growers can discover whether their

populations of wild pollinators, and decrease honey crops from honeybee colonies.

crops are receiving sufficient pollination With an increase in mechanisation of by hand-pollinating (self- and cross-) a . : . . sample of the flowers, and comparing the farming and accompanying field size, a . . . extent of fruit set with flowers left similar dilemma is arising in the tropics.

At present, many countries in the tropics alone.

Research should also reveal whether pollination provides advantages in addition to greater seed or fruit yield.

For example, pollination can influence the quality as well as the size of the crop; when pollination is inadequate, small, lopsided, or otherwise misshapen and inferior fruits may be formed. . .

Increased pollination can induce a : greater proportion of early flowers to . . set seed, and so give an earlier and more . : uniform crop, with less loss at harvest.

More P pollinating 8 insects needed In temperate countries the gradual increase in field size has increased pollination need while a crop is flowering, thereby decreasing the ability of the local insect population to pollinate it adequately. The tendency to concentrate particular crops in certain areas intensifies the situation. However when the major crop in an area is not in flower, there may be too little forage.

Thus, in temperate countries large-scale monocultures increase the demand for pollination, yet also decrease the

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and sub-tropics still have small

plantations of a variety of crops, that flower at different times, growing in close proximity.

Moreover

the tropics, flowering of crops prolonged and less intensive than in temperate regions.

Where growing conditions are favourable, farmers may take two or three harvests from the same plots . . during a year, and at any one time the in

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same crop species may occur ina sequence of growth stages. Many fruit . trees also flower and fruit throughout the year, although more abundantly at

certain periods. Therefore, forage for bees is often present at all times, and with prolonged crop flowering, fewer pollinators are needed than for temperate climate crops of equivalent size.

However, with increased monoculture in the tropics, flowering will be more concentrated and large pollinator populations will be needed for shorter periods; this is already happening in

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some places. Furthermore, whereas pollen sources that allow cross-pollination are naturally present in small mixed farms, special provisions for . crop pollination may be necessary when : there are large areas of a uniform crop.

Good pollinators Many species of insects visit the flowers of commercial crops to seek nectar or pollen or both. Probably most transfer a few pollen grains and so contribute to

pollination, but relatively few are consistently good pollinators. .

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The most efficient pollinators carry . plenty of pollen on their bodies, brush against the stigmas of flowers .

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transferring the pollen, visit several . flowers of the same species in succession, and move frequently from flower to flower and for crops needing cross-pollination, from plant to plant.

To find the pollinating efficiency of a particular type of insect, flowers in clusters are covered by a bag while still in the bud stage. When the flowers have opened, the bags are removed until the flowers are visited by the insect. The flowers are then bagged once more.

The proportion of visited flowers that produce seed is subsequently determined.

including rotting fruit and stems, and pod husks from cocoa, and they are then released on plantations where midges are too few. The manipulation of fig

Poor pollinators

Some insects fail to pollinate because they are unable to release the flower’s pollinating mechanism. For example, wasp populations for pollination has of forage insects are too small to depress course long been practised. the keel of various leguminous flowers and can only visit those’ that have already Solitary bees are especially valuable for been ‘tripped’ (this means they have pollinating legumes. However for commercial use a species of solitary bee been visited by a heavier insect species must be gregarious, rapidly increase its that has made the nectar accessible). in find obtaining population in man-made nests, be easily difficulty Honeybees flowers some from nectar and pollen manipulated and managed, not be subject to uncontrollable parasites and disease, sometimes and with deep corolla tubes, visit the flowers of a commercial crop in without they fearn to obtain forage preference to those of other crops, and pollinating. have a peak of activity coinciding with it.

However, in general the honeybees whose bodies are covered by branched Among other wild bees deserving of hairs are our most valuable pollinators, study are the stingless bees, found and even where numerous insect throughout the tropics. Little is know are often of their forage behaviour, and their occur, honeybees pollinators the most important. potential use as pollinators of commercial crops is largely unexplored. and

Comparing tropical conditions

temperate

Because of different climatic conditions

unpollinated flowers probably survive longer in temperate regions. Perhaps while the pollen is being transported by insects it becomes desiccated and inviable more quickly in hot countries.

Pollinators can vary too!

The pollinator of

a particular crop may be different in different areas. In Jamaica,

skipper butterflies are the sole pollinators of papaya; they appear in considerable numbers at dusk, forage on both hermaphrodite and male flowers, and move rapidly from flower to flower and from tree to tree. In South Africa

Cross-pollination: the transfer of pollen from the anther of a flower to the stigma of a flower on another plant of the same species

Pollen tube: the tube formed when a pollen grain germinates. The male gametes travel down the tube to the egg.

Self-pollination: the transference of

pollen from an anther to a stigma of the same flower, or to the stigmas of flowers on the same plant.

For maximum pollination |

and insect pollinators it is most unwise

to apply findings from temperate countries to tropical ones, or from one hot country to another. For example pollen tube growth is probably faster in the tropics. On the other hand,

explanation please!

Growers must take honeybee colonies to crops needing pollination and not rely on colonies nearby.

When colonies are placed even short distances away from crops rather than beside them, the proportion of bees that visit them is greatly diminished.

2 Colonies should be distributed throughout crops and not kept in large groups.

When groups are too large and too far apart the foraging bees are concentrated near their hives, the uneven distribution of foragers is reflected in crop yield. In fruit orchards, small equidistant groups of four or five colonies each in the centre of a 2 hectare area, ensure an even distribution of foraging bees.

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The proportion of foragers visiting a crop can be greatly increased by not taking colonies to it until it has begun to flower.

When colonies are taken to crops before flowering has begun most of the foragers become conditioned to visiting other flower species in the locality, and will not readily forsake them when the crop requiring pollination comes to flower.

4 Colonies for pollination should be encouraged to collect pollen.

On most crops, pollen-gatherers are more efficient pollinators than nectar-gatherers because they are more likely to transfer pollen to the stigmas and carry a greater amount of pollen on their bodies.

Bamboo stems holding nests of solitary bees Osmia rufa

A bamboo nest split open to show a cell of Osmia rufa containing larva and pollen, separated from its neighbour by a mud wall

the first Cera Rica Beeswax

lobal contest his unique, international Contest for beeswax has been organised

by the Japanese Company Cera Rica Noda. The Contest was first announced in B&D36 and at the

THE PURPOSE OF THE CONTEST The Contest was organised to promote

Beekeeping & Development is pleased to bring news of the winners

beeswax as an international commodity.

To meet the demands of modern industries, beeswax retaining a very high quality must be harvested by beekeepers. The Contest was intended to stimulate this high quality harvest.

On 14 April 1999, the winners of the Contest were announced at the

HOW THE BEESWAX WAS JUDGED

XXXIV Apimondia

Congress.

Award-giving Ceremony, held in Beijing Friendship Hotel, China.

First Prize

a) Methods: based on the Japanese Standard Analytical Method for Oil and Fat

b) Standards:

JSC! (the Japanese Standard

for Cosmetics Ingredients).

Evaluation

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experiment

a) Methods: based on Cera Rica Noda patent on refining (patent number S40-16256)

b) Standards: judged by the value of Gardner and the appearance after the absorption.

Evaluation - experiment

Mr Arnold Grech, Malta. Awarded with a bronze-plated medal and an honorary

certificate, plus US$500.

Special Prize The National Agency for Beekeepers, Sierra Leone. Awarded with a bronze-plated medal and an honorary certificate, plus US$500.

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Members of the Judge Committee

Agricultural Sciences Mr Taizo Noda, President, Cera Rica Noda

Co Ltd, Japan; President, Cera Rica Noda Biological Science

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Technology (Beijing)

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Decolouring by absorption

Third Prize

Apimondia Standing Commission for Beekeeping for Rural Development

Mr Zhenming Jin, Former Director, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of

value, melting point, impurities

Mrs Marieke Mutsaers, Netherlands.

Awarded with a silver-plated medal and an honorary certificate, plus US$1000.

President of the Judge Committee Dr Nicola Bradbear, President of the

General analysis Acid value, saponification value, iodine

Second Prize

THE JUDGE COMMITTEE

Mr Hideo Watanabe, President of the Apimondia Standing Commission for Beekeeping Economy

an honorary certificate, plus US$2000.

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b) Standards: judged by the peroxide value change with time.

The following evaluations were carried out on all samples entered for the Contest:

Beijing Bee Products Company, China.

Awarded with a gold-plated medal and

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Analytical Method for Oil and Fat

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Deodourising with steam a) Methods: based on Cera Rica Noda

COMMENTS FROM CERA RICA NODA The First Beeswax Global Contest, is an endeavour to create standards of quality for bee products. The samples of raw beeswax collected in this Contest showed that there exist large variations

in beeswax acid value, saponification value, decolouring, deodourising, colour patent on refining (patent number stability and AOM test. As these $40- 16256) variations are directly related to utilisation in cosmetics, food and other b) Standards: judged by sensual valuation by ten expert panellists from Cera Rica Noda. industries, the finding of great variation could be an important outcome of the Evaluating experiment III Contest. We would like to see a new i. Colour stability test standard for raw beeswax for industrial a) Methods: arranged according to the use. This could be created after further Japanese Standard Analytical Method for to clarify the relationships study, Oil and Fat between the variation in beeswax and b) Standards: judged by the colour change species of the honeybee, nectars, climate after heating. and the harvesting methods. ii,

AOM test

a) Methods: based on the Japanese Standard

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Chinese beeswax has not yet reached its full market potential. In this Contest the

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and is widely produced in Japan. Used in soap, matches, ointments, pencils and crayons,

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sample evaluations showed us the excellent characteristics and great potential of Chinese beeswax. As beeswax of high quality, we hope that following this Contest, Chinese beeswax will be utilised in more modern industries.

Sierra Leone is shining in the special prize. Sierra Leone is a war-torn country where people are living under terrible conditions and it must be very difficult to prepare beeswax of perfect quality. However, in spite of the war, there are many beekeepers continuing with their work. The quality of their beeswax sample made the judges conclude that Sierra Leone certainly deserved the special prize.

Our company, Cera Rica Noda Co Ltd has a corporate philosophy and business

PHOTOGRAPHS and ILLUSTRATIONS

CERA RICA NODA CO LTD

vision called the “Cera Rica Concept”.

This is to contribute ourselves to the development of agriculture, and to the improvement of the earth’s environment,

cosmetics, foods, medicines, adhesive tape, precision casting and moulding.

and local people's living, by developing new applications for Cera Rica

Candelilla Wax

(vegetable and animal waxes) to modern industries such as data recording materials. With this “Cera Rica Concept” several projects are underway in developing countries. The strong attachment of the beekeepers in China and Sierra Leone to beekeeping is good encouragement for our “Cera Rica Concept”. We hope that together with China’s winning of the first prize, and Sierra Leone’s winning of the special prize in the Contest we will have an active role in the development of

The candelilla shrub grows on the northern Mexican plateau at elevations of {000-2000 m.The shrub

“secretes candelilla wax to cover its surface r protection against the severe conditions yund on the plateau (little rainfall and annual

emperature differences as much as 60°C). andelilla wax has excellent lustre and

ardness, and moisture-proof and electricalssulating qualities. It is used in cosmetics, vater repellents, insulating agents, adhesives ind sizing agents.

beekeeping world-wide, and especially in developing countries.

Rice Wax

SECOND CONTEST

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Finally, aimed at promoting the development of the 2|st century's beeswax industry, we announce that the Second Cera Rica Beeswax Global Contest will be held in 2001.

CERA RICA NODA CO LTD Cera Rica Noda Co Ltd, a company with a high international reputation has a long history of accomplishments in dealing with natural waxes such as beeswax.

Founded in 1832, the Company using its own original technologies developed over 167 years of work on natural materials, has achieved a series of patents that are always ahead of their time. The Company has developed many new applications for vegetable and animal waxes for various industries including high technology fields. The Company’s name “Cera Rica” is coined from the Spanish word cera for wax, and rica for wealth or abundance. Cera Rica effectively gives expression to the superb qualities found only in plant and insect waxes. These to qualities remain unparalleled by any petroleum-based synthetic wax produced

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North East Brazil. Palm leaves covered with powder containing wax prevent the evaporation of water in dry regions.

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Mali Honey is an important source of income for villagers in the Mena Region of Mali. In this region are some of the world’s poorest communities. The

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OMADI Beekeeping Project, funded by the UK organisation Tree Aid, began in January 1999 to support the use of improved hives and honey extraction methods. Over two years the project aims to:

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increase conservation awareness,

focusing on protecting and planting, particularly melliferous trees, and the prevention of bushfires;

Benin Api-Benin promotes beekeeping in Benin through: * *

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Training; Production of beekeeping equipment: hives, smokers, protective clothes; Research on tropical beekeeping; Information provision for rural populations.

In 1998: *

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258 persons were trained in beekeeping; 1310 frame hives were built ; 67 smokers were made; 656 litres of honey were harvested.

Two more beekeeping training courses will take place in 1999, in August and

Beekeeper at work at Beloku, Mali

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provide protective clothing and equipment; train 60 beekeepers in management and honey and wax harvesting demonstrate soap and candle making, particularly to women, to establish income-generating enterprises; establish a beekeeping co-operative for the sharing of experiences and improved marketing possibilities.

TREE AID

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promote improved traditional hives and top-bar hives;

Sarah Francis, Tree Aid

Cameroon Kokoe’s Honeybees Not a new honeybee species, but the original and friendly name for a second division football team in Cameroon.

Two years ago young people in Kokoe, 100 km north of Yaounde democratically chose the name for their team.

Club Vice-President, Mr Abega said, “We chose “honeybee” because we respect this insect. The bee produces honey, a very noble substance which is appreciated by everyone. Bees are very well disciplined, respectful, show solidarity and are busy... they are able to react firmly when attacked. If our young team has all these qualities, we will be successful”.

Sucré-Villages (an NGO working for sustainable beekeeping) visited the village for an information campaign on beekeeping. Some villagers have been trained and now have good, tasty honey.

A scabies (itching) epidemic in the region has been eradicated thanks to a tonic mix of honey and lemon juice.

And the favourite football club of Sa’a Region is playing the “honeybee” game in all the stadia of the Central Province of the country.

Adolph Libong Cameroon

B&D’s Correspondent

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Participants in the three-day beekeeping course organised recently by the United At 87 years Natalie Women’s Apiary in Wobulenzi, Uganda. and photograph supplied by is one the of Information Hodgson —_ United Kingdom’s Henry Nsubuga, Secretary of UWA. oldest beekeepers.

She has been beekeeping for over 40 years and welcomes 3000 visitors every year to her home, to buy honey and to visit her 1.6 hectares of lavender fields.

In addition to honey, Natalie also sells

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pot-pourri, lavender oil, lavender plants, herbs and beeswax candles. Natalie was

Jos Schoenmakers sent

the winner of a competition sponsored by the company Bayer, as part of

in this photograph

of Sahoresh (above left) and Jos examining an almost perfectly intact comb from an

“UK National Varroa Week”.

Apis florea nest knocked out of a Prosopis juliflora “Mesquite” tree after

“The bees are an essential part of my lavender enterprise, and although | want docile bees | also need healthy bees for

a

recent desert storm on the Nakhille Estate, Umm Al Quwain. Not surprisingly the bees

pollination”, says Natalie.

are gone!

Tanzania The “let-alone” method

inspection of unoccupied hives will reduce these problems.

is discouraged still remains the but by many beekeepers, easiest wayY for catching 8 swarms.

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Most beginners fail because they think that to catch a swarm you just bait a

Even the “let alone” method differs from area to area and beekeepers need to become experts in the one that suits

hive and site it.

their locality.

David Yonaza

you are new to the area ask the local beekeepers when the swarming season takes place. A good indication is the reported increase in bee clusters on trees or invading buildings. Watch at what height above the ground the swarms fly to give you an idea of the height to site your hives. In miombo woodland bees depend on trees for forage and will fly high, making it difficult to attract swarms to hives on stands.

If

Yusufu David is in standard five at Mkoami

Primary School, Kibaha in Tanzania. He is happy as his father has told him that the trapped swarm which was invading the nearby house will be transferred to his new hive. He has two top-bar hives with strong colonies which help towards his school fees.

LHVED.

Other problems arise from pests including ants, frogs, lizards, snails, and spiders whose webs block the hive entrance. Mice chew the wood and cause terrible internal destruction of the hive, filling it up with their nests. They also make the entrance too big which attracts the further hazard of occupancy by poisonous snakes! A weekly

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DAVID YON.

Hive materials are important. Some types of wood produce an unpleasant smell which repels the bees, therefore not all trees will be used for making log hives. Molten beeswax or herbs are

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