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​Best Management Practices

BMPs

The pollination service honey bees provide is essential for a healthy food system.  The stability of the agricultural industry is threatened when these crucial pollinators are not performing.  Everyone must work together to manage honey bees in a way that protects them from pests, pathogens, and environmental factors.  Beekeepers, bee brokers, growers, farm managers, pest control advisors, applicators, regulators at all levels, and researchers all need to follow the same guidelines to ensure honey bees can deliver a diverse diet to our plates.  Best Management Practices (BMPs) have been developed by different stakeholders and organizations interested in protecting and utilizing the honey bee in the most efficient way possible.

​A Best Management Practice is a practice, or suite of practices, determined to be the most effective and practical means to achieve a desired objective.  Beekeepers and growers alike share the same objective--to enhance the health and vitality of honey bee colonies while improving crop production.  BMPs serve to guide all interested parties to this objective.  Project Apis m. has worked with the Almond Board of California and the Honey Bee Health Coalition to create BMPs for managing Varroa and Nosema, and assisting almond pollination.  BMPs can be adopted by everyone in the chain of communications with shared goals, so please share and download them freely.  While considered the “best” by experts, BMPs are voluntary practices and not legally binding.     

​Download the Honey Bee Health Coalition's 2019
​"Best Management Practices for Bee Health"  


​Project Apis m. BMP Publications:

  • PAm's BMPs Guide for Beekeepers  (Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter)  Click Here
  • PAm's Growers Guide for Planting Forage for Honey Bees  Click Here​​
  • PAm's Guide for Honeybee Colonies Entering California Click Here
  • PAm and The Managed Agricultural Project's BMPs for Beekeepers Pollinating California’s Agricultural Crops Click Here

Sample Pollination Contract

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BMPs for Almond Growers
Colony Management BMPs
Honey Bee Nutrition BMPs
Varroa BMPs
Nosema BMPs
Equipment Management
​and Maintenance BMPs

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Project Apis m.
    • PAm Staff
    • Scientific Advisors
    • PAm Board of Directors
    • Annual Reports >
      • 2022 Annual Report
      • 2021 Annual Report
      • 2020 Annual Report
    • Contact Us
    • Join The Team
  • News
    • PAm eNewsletter
    • Project Apis m. Blog
    • Inside the Hive TV
  • Honey Bee Research
    • Honey Bee Research
    • PAm-Costco Scholars
    • Request Funding
    • RFPs
  • Seeds For Bees
    • Apply to Enroll
    • Seeds For Bees FAQs
    • Seeds For Bees For the Grower >
      • Water Requirements
      • Cover Crop Competition
      • Nitrogen Management
      • FAQs for Growers
      • Seeds for Bees Resources
      • Seeds For Bees Net 30 Agreement
    • PAm Seed Mixes >
      • PAm Pollinator Brassica Mix
      • PAm Annual Clover Mix
      • PAm Bio Build 3 Mix
      • PAm Wildflower Mix
      • Vetch-Grain Mix
      • PAm Perennial Clover Mix
    • Seeds For Bees Supporters
  • Forage
    • Forage (Home)
    • Forage Videos
  • Resources
    • Guide to Indoor Storage of Honey Bee Colonies in the USA
    • Guide to Shipping Honey Bee Queen Cells
    • Guide to Honey Bee Queen Banking
    • Best Management Practices For Beekeepers (Home) >
      • Honey Bee Nutrition
      • Varroa
      • Nosema
      • Honey Bee Equipment Management and Maintenance
      • Honey Bee Colony Management
    • Best Management Practices For Almond Growers
  • Video
  • Supporters
    • Our Supporters
    • Support Us
    • Honey Saves Hives
    • Christi Heintz Scholarship
    • Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities
    • Testimonials