Written by Tim Tucker from Bee-Informed

The rise of a honey by-product, propolis, as a wonder ingredient for the global pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries is driving new sales for farmers across Kenya, with groups and companies alike reporting that the demand for the product is growing faster than any producer can expand.

Maureen Maxwell has been appointed regional president for the Oceania Commission of Apimondia, the Rome-based international federation of beekeeping associations. "We are highly regarded as a nation when it comes to beekeeping and punch well above our weight. It's my intention to be the voice of the Oceania region and specifically create more awareness about beekeeping because it has the potential to be New Zealand's next industry darling," says Ms Maxwell

Work is under way by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre to identify appropriate sampling and testing methods for the presence of pollen in honey. The research follows the European Court of Justice’s recent ruling on pollen and its implications for the enforcement of legislation on GM food.

The Socialist Group in the Great Canary Cabildo has been urged to implement an eradication program of the "wasp killer," a foreign insect found in the archipelago in recent years may lead to the extinction of species like the black bee themselves, said. The so-called "bee wolf" has been detected "massive" in mediocre Northwest of Great  Canary , and in Telde and the capital, where "gone the whole hive population" due to the action of the call scientifically "Philanthus triangulum"

Using an insecticide, criminals so far unidentified killed hundreds of bees from an apiary in a farm located on the campus Cumba Atacames Canton. The goal was to steal the honey that was ready for harvest, reported to the Attorney Polivio Morillo, owner of the apiary.

Honey production in the state is well below the expectation that the State Office of Information for Sustainable Rural Development (Oeidrus) provides for this 2011. According to the prognosis of Oeidrus, the estimated production of 527 tons of honey to this 2011, by the end of September, only 183 tons were accounted.

Productivity and adequation of honey marketing, the disappearance of bees in Brazil and worldwide, the poisoning of bees by pesticides and notifiable diseases beekeeping will be the focus of discussion among veterinarians participating in the 38 th Brazilian Congress of Veterinary Medicine (CONBRAVET ), an event that occurs between days November 1 and 4 , in Florianopolis Hotel in Florianopolis

The Maroons of Porto Velho, Iporanga, in the Ribeira Valley (SP), celebrated the inauguration of the Processing of Honey, which will strengthen the generation of income in the community. The goal is to increase honey production in the Ribeira Valley quilombos as an alternative to complement income.

Governor André Puccinelli (PMDB) proposes that the beekeepers of Mato Grosso do Sul add a tag that says "Honey Pantanal" as a way of creating identity of the product quality.