BEEKEEPING PRODUCT: "POLLEN PELLETS"

Original in Spanish

Two main topics converge in this "Espacio Apicola" edition. On one hand the spectacular job of Monica Cristina Wingenroth PhD after eight years of investigation with the beekeeper Mr. Pedro Calderon, showing the pollen capacity and spectrum that you can harvest in the region of the "Desierto Mendocino". At the same time, the diversity of pollen collected by the bee during the eight years of investigation, give back to the arguments of the Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodriguez about where the investigations of CCD should be guided.

Published on October 2007

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August - October - 2007.

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EDITOR WORDS:
RETENTIONS AND CHALLENGES OF THE AGRICULTURE INCREASE

Fernando L Esteban Cordoba: (October 2007) 2007 began with an international alert with an flashy disappearance of beehives in the north hemisphere. In a large part of the Argentina, besides having had a bad season, the autumn took charge of decimate whole apiaries affected by floods and storms.
The poor crop, the loss price of the honey kilogram agaist of the constant increment of the cost of life in the last four years, took to many beekeepers to not being able to attend their beehives with the necessary alimentary substitutes and in some cases, without at least, to carry out the elementary sanitary treatments against varroa. Definitively the main cause of death of beehives in our country this year, seems to be the hunger, helped without a doubt by the varroa and the nosema that find in the exhaustion and weakness of the beehives, its best cultivation broth. However there are other important factors that in the north hemisphere are reason of discussion, that in many regions of our country are begining to grow and we should try to correct, not only to avoid bigger losses, but to make more profitable the beekeeping activity.
Pedro Pablo Rodriguez's contribution: objective, without any interests matters inside the activity in our country and passionless, we find very opportune to outline the problem that faces the modern beekeeping, that is: intensive agriculture, stress for apiaries movements, agro chemical products, herbicides, transgenic seeds, among others.
Monica Wingenroth's job constitutes an indispensable base for a serious debate about the necessity of maintaining the balance in all the ecosystems, because the bee shows us that it is selective when picking up its food. This means that to be able to choose, it is indispensable the diversity and that the one that chooses what to eat is the bee, according to the environmental circumstances. These and other important conclusions will be able to elucidate and to base starting from this job that summarizes 8 years of pursuiting the bee in a certain region.
Based in them and in the particular juncture that we live in Santa Fe and Cordoba provinces, in the national productive, political, social and economic situation, we have worked to contribute with the future Provincial Government, through the Beekeeping Advisory Council of Cordoba, with suggestions for an Agricultural Strategic Plan that integrates all the activities, productive forces, tools and alternatives that counts this rich central province, including the Beekeeping. Enjoy your "Espacio Apicola" magazine and we wish you the best crop. Happy New Year!
Fernando L. Esteban - Director
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CCD: Colony Collapse Disorder and the Beekeeping: The Goose that Puts Golden Eggs
Pedro Pablo Rodriguez
Virginia - USA


Victor Hugo Bertola, Pedro Pablo Rodriguez y Elio Cantarutti Pedro Pablo Rodriguez (center) with a couple of Argentine friends in Rio Cuarto in 2001.

2007 started up with a new sign of alert coming from the American beekeepers. Without being able to identify the causes and under an imprecise description of symptoms they denominated the phenomenon like CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder).
The first one in being made echo of the news in Europe was the British network BBC Science that published, passed February 28, the interview that they carried out to us. Before the fact of a provoked beehives dispopulation of beehives seemingly for a multiplicity of factors, the interview was also diffused by different agencies, Telam of Argentina and the Granma of Cuba, who dedicated it a central page in its edition of March 5, among others.
Then other interesting phenomenon happened. Scientific of different parts of the world were able to differentiate the sequence of Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae DNA. With surprising velocity they attributed to this last one the privilege of being the efficient cause of the beehives dispopulation.
The beekeeper and Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodriguez that develops his activities in Virginia, USA and in proximities of Madrid in Spain gives us his point of view.
In one of the central paragraphs of his article, points out:
I have been a beekeeper during 70 years and veterinarian during 45, devote lover of the nature and believer in the Creation, factors that have contributed in my life, a cause, which I believe that it contributes to the well-being of the beekeeping. I will speak of some factors that affect to the beekeeping in general. In the beekeeping, we have the same illnesses and parasites that we had 20 years ago (bacterias, acari, protozoa, viruses, scarabs, bees of the End, mushrooms, a lot of stress, and definitively, transgenics seeds!).


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QUEEN BEES PRODUCTION IN MEXICO
Gilles Fert
Argagnon - France

Fecundation Apiary of
Fecundation Apiary of "Apícola Elite" in Mexico. Picture Gilles Fert

Gilles Fert is a famous Queen Bees breeder in the Southwest of France, at the Pyrenees foot. He participates especially of Non Government Organisms that promote the development of more deferred countries, specially in Central America. Once or twice a year, not more, He leaves Argagnon to offer training courses or to participate of Symposia or Congresses like those of Apimondia. We met him when he visited the Macia Api-expo (Entre Rios - Argentina), several years ago. Then we had the opportunity to share different activities and he received us in his house in 2003. One of the promoters of the last symposium of Queenbees Breeders that was developed last year in Bulgaria and he is already working in function of the next symposium of Queenbees Breeders to be developed in Mexico next year.
In one of the paragraphs of his report points out:
KILLER BEES:
"It is considered that the introduction of the dark european bee (Apis mellifera mellifera), by Spaniards, it happened around 1760. It is in 1911 that the first Italian bees (Apis mellifera ligustica) were introduced. Then recently, the africanized bee come from Brazil appeared in 1986. This bee was an undesirable crossing of the dark bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) with the African bee (Apis mellifera scutelatta) that has altered the Beekeeping practice for its aggressiveness. The country lost half of its beehives in few years, before the beekeepers change their work methods and reconstructs an economy step by step around the beekeeping."


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BEEKEEPING PRODUCTS PRESENT IN SIAL
Fernando Esteban
Argentina
inform@apicultura.com.ar
- Córdoba - Argentina



Last August 29 we visited Sial Mercosur, the edition of this important international food sample that emerge in Paris and at the moment it is continued carrying out in the French capital every even year and is carried out in Asia, North and South America, the odd years. The South American edition was carried out in properties of “La Rural” of Buenos Aires city.
Approximately 40% of the sample surface was covered with “islands” belonging, each one of them, to more than 10 Argentinean provinces, SENASA and the Secretary of Agriculture, Cattle raising, Fishes and Feeding of the Nation.
Besides the general description of the fair and their main characters, we make an itemized analysis of the marketing and the profile that each company of beekeeping products chooses for its presentation and the market that want to conquer.


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BEEKEEPING PRODUCT: POLLEN PELLETS
Monica Cristina Wingenroth
CONICET - CRICyT
Mendoza - Argentina

Monica Wingenroth, Fidel Roig y J. C. Guevara
Fidel Roig (center) during the presentation of the Book "Flora Polinica de Mendoza" next to its author Monica Cristina Wingenroth (left) and the Director of the CRICyT, Engineer Guevara (rigth)

The production of pollen with commercial ends presents important challenges: to know what kind of pollen the grains are compound that form the bee and know the opportune intervals of time, to harvest the different varieties in a systematic form.
This job carried out by the biologist Monica Wingenroth PhD with the beekeeper's collaboration Pedro Calderon, it allows to this last one to produce different varieties of pollen, as well as he comes making of diferents honeys for several years, to place them with a high value added in the local market.
It is an useful tool to all the beekeepers of the region and a very valuable systematization so much for beekeepers as investigators linked to the beekeeping products in the entire beekeeping world.
Among the multiple appreciations of great value for the producer, we rescue the following one by way of example of the wealth of the work in question:
"In the 8 beekeeping seasons analyzed it was never obtained a product of only one type of pollen, according to what was defined. In the interval 2003-2004 are observed by first and only time a presence of 51.5% of grains formed with the pollen Prosopis flexuosa (alpataco), year in which the beekeeper located the traps for only time in the 8 seasons analyzed by the middle of October. Obviously the quality of the product depends on the flora, the density of the species, the type of vegetative (tree, bush, grass, subfrutice), the location of the apiaries, and the handling that the beekeeper carries out of the product- in the field and during the elaboration -, among other parameters."
Monica C. Wingenroth
Mendoza, November of 2007
wingenro@lab.cricyt.edu.ar


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