There may soon be renewed interest in biomass technology as the cost of fuel continues to rise. University of Toronto has done fairly extensive development of clonal poplar and willow stock, an effort that could be re-activated. The honey price has not improved as hoped for. It is too early to get a good reading on the honey market as the European buyers are all on holiday for the month of August. Art has bee yards about 15 miles east of the Niagara River.
Art migrates to Florida for the winter.
He has been aware of the SMB for two years in his hives. He fells that his hives are well isolated from others in Florida until he moves to the citrus groves for honey production in the spring. He fells that the beetles do not build as quickly when the hives are up in New York for the summer. He has not lost hives to the beetles to this point. We really had to look for the beetles by going right down to the bottom boards but we could find some in every hive.