Low-consumption hive, wild bees, news: the beekeeping day takes place on Saturday February 17 in Florac

Une journée de débats et d'échanges sur l'abeille, la ruche et l'apiculture. PNC – Olivier PROHIN

A day on bees and hives offered by the Lozère Beekeeping Union, the Lozère Bee Health Defense Group and the Cévennes National Park.

The Lozère Beekeeping Union, the Lozère Beekeeping Health Defense Group and the Cévennes National Park are organizing the 12th edition of the beekeeping day. It will take place on Saturday February 17, at the Parc headquarters, Salle Émile-Leynaud, in Florac.

On the program, at 9:30 a.m., coffee reception, and at 10 a.m., the low energy consumption hive and use of high performance insulated partitions. Understand, through the biology of the bee, the benefit of isolating the hive for the production of honey and breeding, but above all for the survival of the colony. Damien Mérit, beekeeper in Tarn, will present the experiments and innovations he has carried out with Marc Guillemain, and his hive improvement projects.

The Wild Bee

At 12:30 p.m., lunch break, possibility of paid meal at the Pont Neuf restaurant (optional). At 2 p.m., reconcile beekeeping and preservation of wild bees: sharing floral resources as a common good. Since 2020, the Park has been working with a team of researchers from INRAE ​​in Avignon and Toulouse on a study aimed at analyzing the interactions between domestic bees and wild pollinators. For four years, Léo Mouillard-Lample analyzed a large amount of data by collecting more than 7,500 wild and domestic bees in chestnut groves and callune moors of Mont Lozère and Bougès. He will present the results of the study.

Beekeeping news

And, at 3 p.m., beekeeping health news, with Philippe Clément, president of GDSA 48, who will present the Observatory surveillance system for mortalities and weakening of honey bees (OMAA) which has started in Occitania in 2023 and will share its first feedback on overwintering mortalities of colonies. The fight against the Asian hornet and treatments against varroa will also be discussed.

Free admission. Registration required before February 13 at 04 66 49 53 11 or at carine.lallemand@cevennes-parcnational.fr. For any information, contact Vivianede Montaigne: viviane.de.montaigne@cevennes-parcnational.fr or Philippe Clément: gdsa48@gmail.com. I subscribe to read more