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Fourteenth Annual Field Day at the

Baton Rouge Honey Bee Lab


The Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics & Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana will hold its annual Field Day on Saturday, October 23, 2010. The one-day event will be held at the laboratory building and grounds at 1157 Ben Hur Rd. Gates will open at 9:30 a.m.; activities are scheduled from 10:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A registration fee ($12.00 for adults and $5.00 for children) includes refreshments and a catered lunch.


The field day will include activities for both beginners and experienced beekeepers. A highlight this year will be a queen-rearing workshop in addition to other interactive demonstrations. Beekeepers will have access to a number of activities including a beginning beekeeping course, artificial insemination, grafting, and more.


Those planning to attend must register by October 1 so that refreshments and the catered lunch can be arranged. Please mail your registration check (payable to the Louisiana Beekeepers Assn.) to, Honey Bee Lab, 1157 Ben Hur Road, Baton Rouge, LA. 70820. For more information contact Dr. Lanie Bourgeois (225/767-9299), Alva Stuard (225/261-2032), or the website for the Honey Bee Lab http://ars.usda.gov/msa/br/hbbgpru

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Beginning With Bees
?  The next time somebody new to bees asks, where does one start? Refer them right here to print out their own copy of Beginning With Bees.  Today, some of the technology has changed (such as pure beeswax foundation/verses plastic foundation) but the biology and behavior of the honey bee is right on!  Authors:  Dr. D. K. Pollet Professor (Entomology),  Dr. E. A. Cancienne, ARS (Retired)


 “NATURALLY LOUISIANA HONEY”

There are several reasons why Louisiana Honey should be the sweetener of choice.  Louisiana honey is a pure, natural, wholesome food product, the only un-manufactured sweet readily available.  It is man’s first sweetener as evidenced by references made in earliest records of many countries.

Louisiana Honey is easy to find in grocery stores, farmers markets, health food stores, local fruit stands or your local beekeeper.  Honey is sweet, fat free and healthy to eat.  It has a wide array of vitamins, essential minerals, enzymes and amino acids.  Honey also contains several compounds that function as antioxidants, which help make Honey a truly healthful food. 

It requires no digestive changes before being absorbed into the blood stream; it is often used as a quick energy food by many participating in vigorous exercises.  It is natures germ killer, as germs cannot survive in honey. 

The color and flavor of honey depends on the flowers from which bees gather the nectar.  It comes in a wide range of colors from water white through different shades of amber to dark amber.  The flavor depends also on the kind of flowers from which bees gather the nectar.  A hive of honeybees must tap 200,000 flowers and travel over 55,000 miles to gather enough nectar to produce just one pound of honey.  In fact, a worker honeybee will make only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime, making honey a truly precious natural commodity.

The honeybee is the world’s most beneficial insect, and it is also Louisiana’s state insect.  The remarkable and productive honeybee is the center of an active industry throughout the state.  Over one third of the food we eat depends on honeybee pollination.


Winners Of the 2009 Louisiana State Fair Honey Contest

Class 1, Light Honey
1st.
Randy Fair, Mansfield, La
2nd. Wanda Ricau, Slidell, La
3rd. Wanda Ricau, Slidell, La

Class 2, Amber Honey
1st.
Art Prell, Slidell, La
2nd.Margaret Prell, Slidell, La
3rd.Julian Laine, Talisheek, La

Class 3, Dark Honey
1st.
Randy Fair. Mansfield, La
2nd.Julian Laine, Talisheek, La
3rd.Julian Laine, Talisheek, La


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