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Pollination
We are currently taking reservations for 2010 spring pollination in Northumberland and Durham Counties. Please contact us with your location, required number of colonies, estimated required delivery and removal dates, and a daytime/evening phone number, and we'll provide you with a quote. If you are an organic farmer, no cost permanent apiaries may be available for your area, e-mail us with your location. Please be aware we will not bring our bees to pollinate any field or neighboring field spraying The Bayer Company's imidachloprid based products. Pollination for organic farmers are given top priority and no-spray farms secondary priority. Bees are in short supply this year.
A Few Things to Consider About Pollination
- Bee colonies must be moved into pear orchards when trees are 30 to 50% in bloom. Due to low sugar content in the pear nectar, the blossoms are not very attractive to honeybees. However, if the trees are well into bloom, they will work the blossoms for a period until they find a more attractive source of nectar. If there is only a small amount of bloom, they will start working more attractive sources almost immediately.
- All apple varieties should be considered self-unfruitful; therefore, cannot effectively pollinate themselves. Even such so-called "self-fruitful" varieties as Golden Delicious, Rome, Wealthy, Baldwin and Jonathan, etc, need another variety nearby to serve as a pollen source (pollinizer) to set consistent crops. No apple variety is sufficiently self-fruitful to be dependably productive when planted alone.
- With sweet cherries, move bee colonies in a day or two before the first blossoms open. The flowers have a short period of viability. Sweet cherries must be pollinated quickly. If bees are one day late, the crop can be reduced considerably.
- If dandelion bloom is heavy, mow days before bees are placed. Heavy bloom is competition for the apple bloom. Light dandelion bloom will just help feed the bees.
- With ample pollination, the grower may also be able to set his blooms before frost can damage them, set his crop before insects attack, and harvest ahead of inclement weather. Earliness of set is an often overlooked but important phase in the crop economy.
Dancing Bee Apiary is committed to providing the highest quality bee products. Our mission is to advance beekeeping in Ontario, by helping bring more awareness to this wonderful hobby. After all, our food choices would be very limited if we did not have these incredible pollinators.
Our honey is not pasteurized. We follow organic beekeeping methods. Our Apiaries are located in safe areas away from farmers fields where pesticides may be used. We only harvest surplus honey , ensuring the bees have enough to last the winter.
We offer the following; pure raw honey, pure beeswax candles, wax sales, queens, nucs, pollination, and beekeeping lessons.
Queen cells and Nucs - Please place your orders in April. Dancing Bee Honey Queen cells are $12 each. Nucs are $130 each.
Beekeeping Lessons- Groups of 5-10 people. Lessons are hands on, and packed with info. Starting in the Spring, afternoons from 1p.m to 3:30p.m. Please contact us to register.
Pollination- Dancing Bee Honey provides pollination services in the Northumberland and Durham regions. Our hives are guarantied to be healthy, queen right hives.
Beeswax- We have raw and refined beeswax for sale
