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Urban beekeeping on the rise in Montreal - Linked by Michael Levenston 
Quebec’s Animal Health Protection Act allows urban beekeeping under certain conditions.
By Stephanie O Hanley
Open File
June 15, 2011
Excerpt:
Beekeepers say people don’t understand bees and confuse docile honeybees with aggressive wasps and hornets.
“When you say ‘bee’ it equals stinging, anaphylactic shock and death” says Branislav Babic, who founded the McGill Apiculture Association in 2007.
“They [honeybees] don’t sting just for nothing,” says Babic. “You have to step on it or poke around a hive entrance for a bee to sting you.”
When he arrived as a microbiology student at McGill University’s Macdonald campus, Babic says he was “shocked” to find no beehives.
“There is no beekeeping culture here like there is in Europe,” says Babic, who used to raise bees in Serbia. “Back there no one is bothered by bees unless someone puts them in front of a sidewalk.”
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Quebec’s Animal Health Protection Act allows urban beekeeping under certain conditions.
By Stephanie O Hanley
Open File
June 15, 2011
Excerpt:
Beekeepers say people don’t understand bees and confuse docile honeybees with aggressive wasps and hornets.
“When you say ‘bee’ it equals stinging, anaphylactic shock and death” says Branislav Babic, who founded the McGill Apiculture Association in 2007.
“They [honeybees] don’t sting just for nothing,” says Babic. “You have to step on it or poke around a hive entrance for a bee to sting you.”
When he arrived as a microbiology student at McGill University’s Macdonald campus, Babic says he was “shocked” to find no beehives.
“There is no beekeeping culture here like there is in Europe,” says Babic, who used to raise bees in Serbia. “Back there no one is bothered by bees unless someone puts them in front of a sidewalk.”
Read the complete article here.
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Chris J. Slater @ GrownFoods { 06.26.11 at 11:27 pm } Agree. Most people are very ignorant of the insect world and don’t even know the difference between bees, wasps and hornets. Basically bees are vegetarians who collect nectar and pollen from blossoms for food and turn it into honey for winter use; their sting is for defensive self protection and to use it is death for that bee. If it flies, and stings someone, most people call it a bee. But wasps (and hornets) on the other hand are carnivores and their sting is an offensive weapon – to kill their prey for consumption; so they can use their stinger repeatedly and with far less provocation. To clarify click on the link:
Bee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
Wasp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp
Hornet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet
