BEEKEEPING UPGRADE COURSE

Original in Spanish

With more than thirty years working in queen bees breeding and selection, Ricardo Prieto offered a fantastic lecture during the Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Center of the Country that our "Espacio Apícola" magazine organized last may 2006 in San Francisco, Córdoba. We can consider this lecture, a "Postgratuated beekeeping course", as the core of this edition that also has information about Beekeeping Flora and Entomology to the service of the Pollination.

Published on October 2006

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Main titles of the 74th edition of ESPACIO APICOLA,
August - October - 2006.

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EDITOR WORDS:
THE BEEKEEPER, THE FARMER AND THE EARTH
Fernando L EstebanCordoba: (October 2006) - We said in our previous editorial that "...the honey price can stay and justify the effort of going after where the bees fiind a better habitat to produce". We believe that these conditions will stay along this season and fortunately the climate seems to be better.
However, everybody knows how weak our activity is in front of unforseen facts, as those we have already lived around residuals; or not from our activity, as the dolarization of our economy.
In Argentina, the royal jelly or pollen production can move at the same time as the population's general economy, because mainly this is their markets. With the honey seems to be in the other way, if the popuation's economy goes ok: the honey consumption doesn't increase propotionally, and the production costs increase... in front of this juncture, as we have been informing since some time ago, several companies are investing to have a more direct presence in the consumer market and in this way be able to predict.
Another alternative, maybe just for a small group of producers according to the limitation each region imposes, is associating to cattle producers in sowing with double purpose: milk or meet productions and beekeeping.
If we read thoroughly, we also state solid arguments, toward the excellent alternative of associating the beekeeping production with the seeds and fruits ones. We are proposing an intensive beehives handling, in which can be incorporated easily the knowledge adquired through experimenting by Argentine investigators, to increase the pollen acivity other producers have been making since some years ago, with an integrative porpouse for the beekeeper's, farmer's and earth's benefit.
Hope this season leaves us some money to invest and project.
Fernando L. Esteban - Director
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SANITARY AND FEEDING APIARY HANDLING
Ricardo Miguel Prieto
prieto@infovia.com.ar
- Junín - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Incorporando abeja
Ricardo Jr. adding bees to reinforce nucleus quickly.

We publish the main lines of sanitary and nutritous apiary handling that Ricardo Prieto presented in the "Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Center of the Country", last May in San Francisco city.
It is an excellent complement to a Beekeeping initiation course.
The presentation comes together with the effort that this recognized queen bee breeder makes to systematize the apiary handling through his program
"Api-breeding” and the fair valuation of the factors that condition the productivity.
The characteristic of his analysis is that the productivity is the indicator of the scale from which others factors or variables must be taken into account. In general who start beekeeping from an academic formation, usually tend to value the productivity from just a simple variable, privileging its influence, in front of a wider vision characteristic of a experienced beekeeper.
The topics developed by Ricardo in this extensive synthesis were accompanied by its illustrations and graphics. Subtitles sometimes make reference to specific topics and others to practical recommendations that make indispensable turn to the text to understand those recommendations:
- APIARY UNIFORMITY
- AVOIDING THE DRIFT
- ADDING BEE NOT BREED
- POPULATIONAL AND SANITARY BALANCE
- DETERMINATION OF THE POPULATIONAL BALANCE
- VARROA
- European and American foulbrood
- ANTIBIOTIC MANAGEMENT
- SANITARY WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS
- QUEENS REPLACEMENT
- SYMPTOMS OF REPLACEMENT NECESSITY
- QUEENS WITH CELLS AND SPARE NUCLEUS REPLACEMENT
- FEEDING
- CONSUMPTION DISPARITY AMONG BEEHIVES
- FEEDING WITHOUT CONTAMINATING THE HONEY
- SYRUPS
- MATERIALS

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SUNFLOWER POLLINATION Booster outlines to achive a new balance that benefits the Beehives and Nurseries
Juan Mange
juanjmange@hotmail.com
- Villalonga - Buenos Aires - Argentina



INTRODUCTION
In this opportunity we publish the following notes sent by Juan Mange, with who we had the opportunity to meet in the recent Api-Expo of "Doblas" (La Pampa province). Juan, from whom we have published important articles about Flora and fruit-bearing pollination in the Half Valley and High Valley of Río Negro (Espacio Apícola 20, 26, 54 and 58th), since some years ago he has been advising about seedbed pollination in the risky area of Río Colorado, South end of Buenos Aires Province.
The article is adjusted to the characteristics for the season 2006, area VILLALONGA, Buenos Aires.
Juan describes the area and the way of work in "general Characteristics" to describe later the "NUTRITIONAL PROBLEM" that the beehives suffer due to the sunflower monoculture, its "LACK OF ATTRACTION", the "SERIOUS LOST OF ORIENTATION" and the necessity of "POLLEN AND COMPLEMENTARY NECTAR SOURCES" considered "COMPETITIVE" making an evaluation among these two points of view.

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STORED FOOD SMELLS AFFECT THE HARVESTED PREFERENCES OF THE WORKER BEES
- Walter Farina, Andrés Arenas and Vanesa Fernández
walter@fbmc.fcen.uba.ar
Group of Study of Social Insects - Department of Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Exact and Natural Ciences UBA - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Equipo de estudio de insectos sociales

Group of Study of social insects directed by Dr. Walter Farina


We published in the hard edition the whole lecture that Dr. Walter Farina offered on Saturday May 6 during the "Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Center of the Country" about "A world of Smells inside the beehive: Its importance when harvesting food" In Espacio Apícola 71st, we had published the abstract of the original work, carried out by Andrés Arenas and Vanesa M. Fernández. In the 73rd edition, we refered to the immediate impact that this lecture had during the Fair.

Andres ArenasVanesa Fernandez
Andrés Arenas and Vanesa Fernández authors.

That impact led into new contributions published in this edition. Considering that the information given during the lecture exceeded widely the summary published, we publish the whole conference to evaluate the arguments presented, so each one cam take his own conclusions, maybe find a explanation to some phenomena we see and why not, start to make test taking advantage of these experimental data.
The work with all its illustrations include more than 15 pages and it's presented with the following subtitles:
- INTRODUCTION
- BEE AND ECOSYSTEM
- THE BEEHIVE
- INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: IMPORTANT ARGUMENTAL BASE
- THE WORK DIVISION
- CAN WE POINT THE BEES WHERE WE NEED THEM TO GO?
- USED EXPERIMENTAL METHOD
- ANALYSIS OF RESULTS
- CONCLUSIONS
It implies: - Obviously the bees manage global information of what is happening inside the beehive about food
- Smell memories can be formed in very long time, from the stored smell food inside the beehive.
- These kinds of memories can be remembered in harvesting, for example: landing in the right flowering or for example extending the proboscis when receiving that smell.
- OUR GOALS

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JUJUY - ARGENTINA: POLLEN CONTAINED OF HONEYS FROM JUJUY
- Ana Carina Sánchez and Liliana Lupo
anacarina_s@yahoo.com
lupoli@imagine.com.ar
Faculty of Agrarian Sciences - National University of Jujuy - Jujuy - Argentina

For the first time we have the pleasure of publishing a beekeeping flora report of Jujuy province. There the activity is having an important growth in the last years. This work was presented during the “XIV Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Center of the Country”.
INTRODUCTION
The flora wealth of Jujuy province is shown in the five phytogeographic provinces: "Chaqueña", "Yungas", "Prepuna", "Puna" and "Altoandina" (Cabrera, 1976), among those, only the first three have a commercial beekeeping activity. The natural nutritious resource that these provinces contribute with is complemented with the human action that brings valued species for the beehive. The honeys present variations of their physical, chemical and organoleptic characteristics as a consequence of the diversity of botanical origins (Carretero 1989, Tellería, 2001). At the moment, due to the beekeeping productiion conditions in the region, we must point to the segment of bottled honeys, with identity of botanical and geographical origin that allows us to get better prices and reach new markets (Bedascarrasbure, 1995).
The present work looks for analyzing the pollen contained of honeys coming from different province regions, determining which are the main types.
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Bibliography

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