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See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/bees.htm for more information on Famer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, identified inadvisable practices of beekeepers near Tamale, Northern Region Ghana.

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/bees.htm for more information on Famer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, inspect bee trees near Tamale, Northern Region Ghana.

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/bees.htm for more information on Famer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, transfer a wild nest of African bees from the soffet of a building in Tamale, Northern Region Ghana into a Kenya Top Bar Hive (KTBH). The transfer was done at night when the bees are cooler and, thus, less aggressive. We didn’t find the queen during the transfer and the next morning the bees had swarmed into a nearby tree. We got the bees out of the tree, found the queen and made sure we got her into the hive this time.

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/bees.htm for more information on Famer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, transfer a wild nest of African bees from the soffet of a building in Tamale, Northern Region Ghana into a Kenya Top Bar Hive (KTBH). The transfer was done at night when the bees are cooler and, thus, less aggressive. They are also not as likely to fly in the absence of much light but will fly at lower light levels than European bees (hence the need for night vision setting on the video). We didn’t find the queen during the transfer but got her the next morning where the bees had swarmed into a nearby tree.

See http://www3.telus.net/conrad/bees.htm for more information on Farmer-to-Farmer and/or beekeeping development.
Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, OIC Tamale Beekeeping Technical Specialist, and Conrad Bérubé, Farmer to Farmer Volunteer, are treated to a celebratory song and dance by beekeeping trainees who have successfully completed a night-time hive transfer and honey harvest near Tamale, Northern Region Ghana.