The beekeeping that better meets your needs

Original in Spanish

This time, Espacio Apícola is pleased to publish 10 years of continuos research by PhD Mónica Wingenroth in the desert of Mendoza, which we could accompany from the word go. The study supports the sustainability of beekeeping with proper handling, and confirms the necessity of continuos and long - term studies, to achieve concrete and reliable results. Also in this edition, it is published an article on the necessity of converting or updating the beekeeping company, to face the adverse environmental condicions before the expansion of the agricultural frontier. Moreover, you can find here everything that took place during the XVIIth Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Centre of the Country, Río Cuarto 2009.

(Thanks to Miss Melipal Esteban for the translation of this page)
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Main titles of the 88th edition of ESPACIO APICOLA,
June-July 2009.

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EDITOR WORDS:
ACHIEVED OBJECTIVES
Fernando L Esteban (Córdoba, July 30th 2009) Together with this new edition of Espacio Apícola, we are pleased to announce the realization of a pair of goals we had set some years ago. On the one hand a model of science for sustainable productive development and, on the other hand, the beekeeping that better conforms each of us.
Regarding the first topic, the presentation of the conclusions of uninterrupted 10-year research by PhD Wingenroth together with Pedro Calderón and other beekeepers and technicians in Lavalle, Mendoza, show concrete results of what happens to beekeepers in a specific area. It takes at least 10 years to do a reliable analysis of the activity, in an area that minimally retains its characteristics. It is not only a useful contribution to the beekeeping company that needs to make plausible estimations regarding production and comercialization of a product, but it is also a contribution to the design of production strategies nationwide that imply the feasibility, sustainability and aspirations of all the projects that may arise.
Considering the second item, the experiences of Suriak and Prieto, seemingly disparate, show the seriousness with which they both lead their companies; pursuing different goals according to their own possibilities, needs and styles, and, with different responses to similar situations. They are both in the highest levels of competitiveness in Argentina.
This edition is the result of many years of work and the generous collaboration of beekeepers, technicians and profesionals that please us with their contributions. Nowadays, we must make out those leaders that take these contents to decorate their speeches and not to implement them. Enjoy and stand up for this Espacio Apícola
Fernando L. Esteban - Director
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Desert Crops
"Uninterrupted 10 years of Melisopalinological studies"
Melisopalinological characteristics of honeys from La Asunción (32º33'21''S / 68º14'45''W) Lavalle, Mendoza, Argentina (1999-2009)


PhD Mónica Cristina Wingenroth
wingenro@lab.cricyt.edu.ar
Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales - CCT - CONICET

ABSTRACT
With the collaboration of the technician Andrea Farrando and the beeekeeper Pedro Calderón, this paper deals with the contribution of pollen in the honeys of La Asunción, Lavalle, during 10 consecutive years. During said time, we tried to achieve the temporal sustainability of pollen input through proper beekeeping handling, trying to explain, at the same time, the causes of the observed variations. In terms of this handling, it was shown that it is possible to keep, during several consecutive seasons and within certain limits, the physico-chemical, organoleptic and microbiological characteristics of the honeys (except from atypical seasons because of weather or environmental inclemencies).


Pedro Calderón, looking for green Honey for the preliminary studies, also published in Espacio Apícola No. 48

The products made in this way retain regional characteristics constituing a scientific basis for advancing in their quality with designation of origin and have a qualitative advantage to be commercialized. What is important is the sustainability of the quality of the product, and this quality can even be divided into mono, bi or plurispecies honeys.


Tamarind blossoms (Tamarix gallica)
In the honeys corresponding to the three selected intervales during all analyzed beekeeping seasons, it was always registered (except from some preparations) the presence of pollen from Capparis atamisquea, Prosopis pos. flexuosa y Tamarix gallica, varying only the pollen percentages.
Subtitles:
-INTRODUCTION
-LOCATION
-CLIMATE
-VEGETATION
-POLLEN
-MATERIALS Y METHODS
-PROGRESS IN APPLIED METHODOLOGY
-PARTIALLY ADOPTED METHODOLOGY
-LANGUAGE EVALUATIONS
-RESULTS, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
-FIRST INTERVAL OCTOBER - DECEMBER
-SECOND INTERVAL DECEMBER - JANUARY
-THIRD INTERVAL JANUARY - MARCH
-COMMON FEATURES IN THE THREE INTERVALS
-ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANTHROPIC FACTORS
-CONCLUSSIONS

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Handling and Bees under Agricultural and Weather Pressure III
Ricardo Miguel Prieto
Junín - Buenos Aires - Argentina prieto@infovia.com.ar


Feeding Beehives in brood chamber and super I wanted to separate the comments on the handlings that accompany the feeding handling that was discussed in the last edition, considering that feeding is nowadays "THE handling" par excellence, the key that allows us to go on practising beekeeping, at least to those beekeepers who do not usually make transhumance. The feeding after crop is perhaps more importante than spring feeding, since this last one does not avoid winter mortality, and with a good feeding during autumn, post - crop feeding hardly needs spring one. Here they are pushibled reflections, pieces of advice and experience on some other handlings, oriented to facilitate and adapt beekeeper's job to the current situation of our apiaries. It is important to mention that not any sugar syrup can be given to bees, since their digestive apparatus is very simple and lacks the abitility to assimilate some complex sugars called "dextrins"
Subtitles:
- OTHER HANDLINGS
- QUANTITY OF BEEHIVES PER APIARY
- TIMES OF CARE AND QUANTITY OF BEEHIVES PER BEEKEEPER
- SYRUPS: Qualities
- QUEEN CHANGES
- MARKING THE BEEHIVE WITH COLOUR PINS
- DOUBLE QUEENS
- CURES
- NUCLEOUS
- HOW MUCH DO BROOD CHAMBERS WEIGH?

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The Beekeeping Company under Agricultural and Weather Pressure
"Production circuit of Dual Purpose Sowing and Polination Services"
Héctor Suriak y Luis Diez
Venado Truerto - Santa Fe - Argentina


"Optimizing Costs" Variables to have into account: Manpower, Beehives, vehicles, tools.

Luis Diez and Héctor Suriak approached the current beekeeping problems from a purely business perspective during the "XVIIth Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Centre of the Country", which took place last May in Río Cuarto, Córdoba. After having tried to make a producer association or partnership, from Héctor's experience inside groups of "Cambio Rural", in the south of Santa Fe; they showed their association's progress, their current performance and how they face the challenges that are posed by the expansion of adverse agricultural systems, the weather variables, and the oversizing of the bureaucratic structure, current legislation and public administration. We submit to our reader a summary of the lecture given by Luis Diez and Héctor Suriak, which certainly fosters discussion.
Subtitles:
- BEEKEEPING AT SCALE
- CONCEPT OF COMPANY
- HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES
- ADDRESS THE LACK OF FIELD
- PRODUCTION GOALS
- PERSONAL
- LAND-AND-CATTLE INTEGRATION
- BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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"XVII th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Centre of the Country"
Api - Expo Río Cuarto 2009

Circles of Brood and Detail of Oviposition up to September, 10th 2008

Under the slogan "The Beekeeping that better meets your needs", the
"XVII th Fair and Beekeeping Meeting from the Centre of the Country"
took place in the Sociedad Rural of Río Cuarto (Córdoba, Argentina), last May 15, 16 and 17th.


On Friday, during the Update Time on Beekeeping Sanitation, Agronomist Enrique Sosa, Julio Spadoni and Diego Oses, from the National University of Córdoba, lectured on "Nosema Disease Situation in the Province of Córdoba"; Matías Toledo, invited by APILAB laboratory lectured on "Varroa and bee parasites treatment"; Microbiologist María Juliana González, from the National University of Río Cuarto, presented he work on "Vegetable extracts against Paenibacillus larvae, causal agent of American foul brood".


Ms. Magdalena Fey



Matías Toledo lectured about "Treatment of infectious diseases and bees nutrition".
During Saturday, the axis was the Integration of Beekeeping with other Land-and-Cattle productions, aiming towards a "Conversion of the Beekeeping Company". Vet Paula Melegatti, from UNRC, presented "State of Affairs of Beekeeping Activity in Río Cuarto Department, Córdoba, Argentina", a work carried out together with the local council; Agronomist Héctor Suariak and Agronomist Luis Diez presented their business organization, published in this edition under the heading "Production circuit of Dual Purpose Sowing and Polination Services".
After a short interval, Agronomist Juan José Mange presented his work "Towards a technology of fruit pollination in the Valley of Río Negro" - 10-year experience in the coordination of Pollination Services - a true innovation for the thematic and extent of systematization.
In the early afternoon, the traditional Beekeeping Meeting focused on "Native Flora as a resource for differentiated productions and as a complement of the beehives before and after pollination". PhD Alicia Basilio from UBA lectured on "Pollen Production in the lower Delta of Paraná River"; Professor Biologist Cristina Costa, BSc Ariel Vergara and BSc Estela Pistone from UNC lectured on "The Floral Origin and Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Honeys from Central Valley of Catamarca".
Finally, BSc Rosa S. Jiménez, from the Lab of current and quaternary Palinology - CCT CONICET Mendoza - lectured on "Native Flowers for diferentiated production of honeys and pollen grains".
On Sunday, Agronomist Hérman Zorzín summarized his study entitled "Practising Beekeeping, improving knowledge in other activities"; after that, Vet Patricio Crespo presented "Measuring the frequency of visits of Apis Mellifera to different species of legumes in 5 hectares of grassland". Agronomist Juan Juricich together with Technician Diego Lema made the presentation of "Program of genetic improvement of Mendoza". After a break, the meetings finished with an impressive presentation, based on countless records, in charge of Ricardo Miguel Prieto, who refered to "Handling and Bees Under Agricultural and Weather Pressure", that we have dealt with in the last editions of Espacio Apícola.

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