{"id":276139,"date":"2026-06-24T03:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:30:54","slug":"beekeepers-working-to-revolutionize-canadian-honey-industry-with-local-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276139\/","title":{"rendered":"Beekeepers working to revolutionize Canadian honey industry with local queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published on Jun. 23, 2026, 10:28 PM<\/p>\n

Breeding more queens in Canada could offer solution to bees dying in winter<\/p>\n

It might come as no surprise that Canada’s cold climate can pose a problem for beekeepers<\/a>, with a 2025 report from the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists’ finding that over 41 per cent of Alberta honeybee colonies failed that winter.<\/p>\n

It’s an issue Calgary-area company Beekeeping Innovations Ltd. has devised an innovative solution for: the Bee Cube, an apiary with a fully climate-controlled environment capable of housing multiple honeybee colonies<\/a>, designed in Okotoks.<\/p>\n

“The goal is to get bees through the winter in a comfortable environment,” said Herman Van Reekum, the company’s founder and CEO.<\/p>\n

But beyond helping bees survive the winter, the Bee Cube presents an opportunity the group says could shake up Canada’s beekeeping industry.<\/p>\n

\"Beekeeper\/Radja<\/p>\n

\nBeekeeper Herman Van Reekum in the Bee Cube, an apiary with a fully climate-controlled environment, in Okotoks. (Radja Mahamba\/Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n

“The real goal that we’ve figured out is how to make queens, how to reproduce queens in a very safe, in a very economical way, and this this is an ideal system for that,” Van Reekum said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Jun. 23, 2026, 10:28 PM Breeding more queens in Canada could offer solution to bees dying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-276139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}