Collaborate with the BC-TTP

We love hearing about opportunities to collaborate with individuals, organizations, or institutions to help advance sustainability in the beekeeping industry through research, education, and knowledge transfer. If your project needs support or resources, complete our request form below and we'll be in touch as soon as we can. Please complete the form in full. If any information is unknown, add comments at the end to indicate this. Submission requests are reviewed by our Steering Committee (who meets biannually) and the BCHPA Executive for feedback and final approvals.

Contact Us

Hours
Monday–Friday
10am–6pm

Contact
Email : info@ttp-bchpa.ca

Location
Main Office : Abbotsford, BC
Serving BC Province-wide

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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,