Good factsheets from Canada

[Finsky]

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http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/factsheets/

The amout of food for winter is at same level here but bigger in Canada. They recommend in Canada 35-45 kg  sugarsyrup (65%) for winter and we use in Finland 20 kg as dry sugar.  

We have here insulated winterboxes. Canadians have mostly noninsulated solid wood .  
When I had  3 cm solid wood deeps during winter, food consumption was 50% bigger than nowadays  in styrofoam boxes.

45% x 0,66  = 30 kg.   ... Figure matches  with that figure   20 kg + 50% =30 kg

Our winter is longer than in Canada.
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[shemer]

i was told yesterday that canadian beekeepers are the best in the world in terms of the quantity of cololies they`re dealing with. like some folks in the industry have up to 10 000 colonies. is that true?

[Kathyp]

http://www.honeycouncil.ca/

here is one link.  if you don't find the info on here, you might find a link that leads to it.  also search "canadian beekeeping".  there a many more links.  maybe some of our canadian members will have other ideas for you.