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.
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
