Occupied in providing to the Argentine Beekeeping of a systematizing in order to certify the honey production processes and other products processes of the beehive, Espacio Apícola took advantage of the trip for its director's Europe, Fernando Luis Esteban, to look for relationships of the activity in the most exquisite centers in production and consumption of honey.
After to participate of the Apimondia Congress in Antwerp and to visit beekeepers in Holland and the International Bee Research Association in Wales, we travel to Germany.
There we go to Oberursel to know the BeeNews Institute (Institut für Bienenkunde), member of the Polytechnic Society of the School of Biology belonging to the University J. W. Goethe of Frankfurt.
This institute, at the moment directed by the Dr. Nikolaus Koeniger, it had among their distinguished directors to the grateful Friedrich Rutner. In the opportunity we were received by the prof. Dr.Gudrun Koeniger, Lars Steinhard and the Dra. Cristel Rau who had the kindness to interrupt their works to dedicate some minutes to ESPACIO APICOLA.
The article that we publish, accompanied by 17 pictures and illustrations, narrates the intense life and activity of this institute and the newness on those they are working in races of bees, products to combat the Varroa, etc.
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With reason of inviting them to participate actively in San Francisco's meeting, ESPACIO APICOLA traveled until the Ce.D.I.A. (Beekeeping Investigation Center) in "Santiago del Estero" city to exchange opinions about what we glimpse will be the Argentine Beekeeping of the Third Millennium", general title that will summon us from the next 8, 9 and 10th May. In the Picture the Dr. José Maidana who acts in the one mentioned Center from their origins, 20 years ago, at the same time of the grateful Dr. Eduardo Mario Bianchi.
The original proposal that we take, of advancing toward to apply the Good Practices of Factory of foods norms, specifically to the beekeeping, was very well accept for the professionals of these important investigation center.
The starting point will be to know how cares are to have today with the honey, or other products of the beehive, and our reality of beekeepers. Both items, product and producer, they are very far from the big factories of perishable foods from those which many times the governments interpret and they regulate the norms. The objective: to walk toward the quality certification of our work and products.
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Germany: European market demands Thermometer

In the search of relationship we didn't keep only in mind the supplying companies and the investigation centers, we also wanted to know like grateful European beekeepers work.
We visit Friedrich Ullmann, a beekeeper of 250 beehives in Germany. Our guide, Xaver Mayer of the Fritz enterprise, say that Ullmann is one of the ten more important producing of Germany.
Ullmann received us in his extraction room, beside his house in a residential neighborhood and very town of Erlensee near Frankfurt.
It was a very interesting conversation. We speak of the strong organization that the beekeepers have in Germany and their concern because the honeys that enter to the German market have the due certification of quality that people are demanded to them.
The visit that we narrate thoroughly in "Espacio Apícola", was us very useful to verify the simplicity of the work that they carry out in comparison to the norms that the government are sought to impose to beekeepers in Argentina.
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Beekeeping Blooms: Hydrophity (sp:hidrófita) Vegetation of the Paraná's River Delta

"Espacio Apícola" had the opportunity, in having reiterated occasions, of not only visiting producers and apiaries in the delta, Pedro Barbotto, Carlos Damocles Pusterla, Eduardo Dimarco between other members of the "Ramallense and Nicolaeña Beekeepers Association" (ARyNdA); but in a large part of the basin that nurtures this wonderful ecosystem, one of the biggest of their type in the world.
The Beekeeping interest bloom in the delta is a very wide thematic, complex and changing, not only for local climatic reasons and of the great influence region, but also for the alterations that the human activity causes in a more direct way.
The Bulletin of the Argentine Biology Society and the Darwiniana's magazine published in 1996 two works carried out by Alicia Mabel Basilio and for her and Edgardo J. Romero, titled "Len de las especies Hidrófitas en las mieles del Delta del Río Paraná (Argentina)" and "Contenido Polínico en las mieles de la Región del Delta del Paraná (Argentina)", respectively. We also had access to the original works and reports remitted to the beekeepers that participated providing those near 30 samples of honeys coming from different areas actively. We thank the gracefulness of the beekeepers of ARyNdA who facilitated us this material, manifesting this way their interest for professionalize the beekeeping and hierarchize the activity with studies of true scientific value.
These works are very important because they are scarce the investigations on the hydrophity (sp: hidrófita) vegetation in our country and because, for the beekeepers, it is fundamental to know this important resource of nectar and pollen.
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Apitherapy: Interviews to Dr. Stefan Stângaciu

Born in Bucharest, in 1960, married and with three children, Stefan is manager of DAO S.A., a company dedicated to the investigation and diffusion of alternative medicines in Constanza, beside the Black Sea, in Rumania. He is pupil of the Dr. Alexandru Partheniu who worked for more than 45 years in studies on the bee poison.
Profession doctor, with license of the State, practices naturist medicine exclusively. He is devoted to the Acupuncture, Apitherapy, Physiotherapy, Yoga, etc.
In Antwerp he received a mention of honor for "A Guide of the Propolis Composition and Properties" one of their last books and for "Apither 97", a computer program (soft) that developed next to Thomas Schachtner, of Germany.
He explained to us the operation of the "Apither 97" and it advanced us the topics from their next visit to Uruguay and Argentina.
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