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New Kamloops meadery plans to make honey wine with help from local bees
A new meadery is in development in Kamloops, and while a few meaderies can be…
Finally something good can come from all those election signs
A beekeeper in Kamloops has a great idea for repurposing used campaign signs. Murray Willis…
Honey bee losses continue to increase in Kamloops, Okanagan
Experienced Kamloops beekeeper Murray Willis lost more than a third of his honey bees over…
iN VIDEO: Pollen covered bees busy at work in Kamloops garden
A couple of years ago avid Kamloops gardener Rupinder Sran Gill decided she was going…
iN PHOTOS: Warm weather brings blooms and busy bees in Kamloops, Okanagan
A spell of warm spring weather has brought out flowery blooms in Kamloops and the…
iN VIDEO: Honey bee swarm rescued on Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna
A beekeeper was called to a section of the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna this…
Meet the bees that live in those blue shelters in North Okanagan fields
People often wonder what those blue huts in farmers’ fields in North Okanagan are for.…
iN VIDEO: Don’t panic, it’s just a swarm of bees
KAMLOOPS — A swarm of bees may look scary, but if they are honey bees,…
Okanagan bees check-in to custom-built hotels
OKANAGAN – Even bees like to put of the ritz from time to time. They…
Nectar Trail Project hoping to create flowery stepping stones for bees in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Bees are giving gardeners another reason to plant flowers this year. The Nectar…
Have you noticed that buzzing sound in the Okanagan?
VERNON – It looks like spring in the Okanagan, and it sounds like it too.…
Hot weather, wildfires and changes in agriculture mean less Okanagan honey in the pot
OKANAGAN - An abnormally hot and dry summer appears to have had an unwelcome impact on Okanagan honey production. Helen Kennedy, who runs Arlo’s Honey Farm in Kelowna with her husband Rick Appel, says the season started off with an unusually early honey flow in May, likely due to above average spring temperatures. A productive...
Don’t bee afraid of prime swarms
WEST KELOWNA – It came over the horizon like a cloud of black smoke. Fast moving and unified, the swarm of around 40,000 honey bees crossed the Snyastan mall parking lot and settled in a tree only metres from the main entrance of Bosley’s Pet Food. Bosley’s manager Michelle Bell says she saw the swarm...