Supporting Honey Bee Producers Across British Columbia

What We Do

The BC Tech Transfer Program is a Non Profit Organization on a Mission to Promote Honey Bee Health & Productivity, and to Advance the Sustainability of the Beekeeping Industry in British Columbia through Research, Education and Knowledge Transfer.

Resources for Beekeepers

We work with beekeepers to ensure that the community has access to current knowledge & information that supports healthy & productive bees. Whether you are a beginner or experienced beekeeper, this is the place to go for resourceful information.

Healthy Bee Research

Producing relevant honey bee research for the beekeeping community is one of the BC-TTP’s top priorities. We run ongoing scientific projects and studies to address the needs of both honey bees and beekeepers to directly help honey producers make their hives thrive.

Get Involved

We want your involvement to help make a tangible difference in our beekeeping community! Get involved with us by attending workshops, collaborating on research projects & participating in citizen science projects.

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Make a Sweet Difference

By donating to our cause, you contribute directly to the support and protection of honey bee producers province wide. Donations play a critical role in enabling us to provide vital resources, education, and research to beekeepers, empowering them to overcome the challenges they face and thrive in their essential work.

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Bees use two major senses to find flowers: sight and smell. According to Caron & Connor (2013), “Flowering plants offer both colors and patterns. Many flowers have nectar guides giving the flower a ‘bulls-eye’ pattern of differe
Foraging bees are essential members of the hive whose job it is to seek and supply nectar, pollen, and water for the colony. They primarily use their site and smell to locate sources, and once accustomed to a particular type of flower based on its co
Tomorrow marks the first ever International Day of Women in Beekeeping! We deeply appreciate the women here at the BC-TTP and the BCHPA and all the hard work they do to keep our hive thriving. Grateful for our beekeeping community and excited to see
Nuria Morfin is the BC-TTP’s program lead! She is responsible for designing a strategic plan for the BC-TTP, identifying priorities for the program, forming a team and guiding their work, planning research projects and designing educational act
Leilani Pulsifer is the BC-TTP’s Science Communicator! My job is to take complex information and break it down into bite sized pieces for you. Whether you’re reading this post or checking out our banners at the AGMs, odds are I made it!
Becky Miller is our indispensable Administrative Assistant! She keeps the TTP running smoothly by bookkeeping, managing payroll, reporting, and purchasing. We couldn’t do half the things we do if it wasn’t for her! 🐝 #BCHPA #staffintro
It’s been a busy year for the BC-TTP! Here are some of the major accomplishments we met this year: • Completed and published the sector analysis of BC’s beekeeping industry. • Finished Varroa monitoring project. • Assisted
The BC-TTP is wishing you and your bees health and happiness this holiday season! 🐝 #BCHPA #happyholidays #newyear #honeybees #holidayseason #seasonsgreetings
Unfortunately, we did not receive enough responses to determine the relationship between mite levels in the fall with colony mortality in the spring. However, from the 93 colonies that we received information from, we found that: • The participa
We hope you’re gearing up to create some sweet moments with your loved ones this holiday season 🍯🎄 🐝 #BCHPA #honeybees #beekeeping #beekeeping101 #britishcolumbia #pollination #honeybeeresearch #varroamites #holidayseason #beemerry #honey
In the fall of 2022, we released a survey to beekeepers in BC to investigate management practices and Varroa destructor levels in different parts of BC. It’s important to note that 58% of the observed colonies were monitored before treatment,