Bee Informed Partnership - Be Included, Be Involved, Bee Informed!

The Bee Informed Partnership is an extension project that endeavors to decrease the number of honey bee colonies that die over the winter. Managed honey bees are important to our agricultural security because many fruits, nuts, vegetables, and other crops require bees to pollinate them to ensure production of quality produce. The project proposes to help beekeepers keep colonies alive by initiating several levels of surveys.

This project is motivated by the conviction that beekeepers, when presented with beekeeper-derived data that objectively show which management practices worked and which did not, will adopt the more successful practices. This, in turn, will reduce colony losses and increase the availability of pollinating units overall.

Please encourage all beekeepers you know to participate! http://www.beeinformed.org/.