Honey Bee Health Coalition Building Bridges

摘要

The Bee Integrated Demonstration Project taught beekeepers, farmers and the program’s proponents in the Honey Bee Health Coalition a number of important lessons about colony health, best management practices (BMPs) and improved foraging habitat. Butthe most pressing lesson of the project, which paired farmers and beekeepers in North Dakota from 2017 through 2021, was the importance of communication.“The drumbeat that came through loud and clear throughout the Bee Integrated Demonstration Project was that beekeepers wanted farmers to understand how importantit was to their livelihoods that the farmers practiced BMPs in the field, and farmers really wanted to know that there was a real, live beekeeper who benefitted from the practices they adopted and the habitat they planted,” said Matt Mulica, facilitatorof the Honey Bee Health Coalition. “It was all about communication.”