Bee Diagnostic Services for Canada

加拿大养蜂人管理着75万个蜂箱，用于蜂蜜生产和授粉服务，为加拿大农业贡献了40多亿美元。 养蜂人需要健康强壮的蜂群。自2007 - 2008年冬季以来，越冬蜂箱的损失一直超过保持可持续性所需的10%至15%。 2011年，地区养蜂人要求格兰德草原地区学院提供专门的诊断服务。 国家蜜蜂诊断中心（NBDC）于2013年4月作为技术获取中心（TAC）开放。 先进的实验室提供及时、准确、可靠和保密的诊断服务，使养蜂人能够做出合理的管理决策，保持生产力和竞争力。养蜂人依靠NBDC-TAC开发创新技术，然后提供服务，以应对紧急的蜜蜂健康和相关的市场挑战。 更新后的NBDC-TAC正在加强对行业和蜜蜂研究人员的应用研究支持。 它将正式确定其分子诊断课程，开发相关的蜂巢健康管理短期课程，并重塑其高价值的边工作边学习的学生体验。NBDC-TAC直接为加拿大养蜂业的可持续发展，充满活力，健康和盈利做出贡献。

Canadian beekeepers manage 750,000 hives for honey production and pollination services, contributing over $4 billion to the Canadian agriculture industry. Beekeepers require healthy and strong colonies. Since winter 2007\2008, overwintering hive losses have consistently exceeded the 10% to 15% rate needed to remain sustainable. In 2011, regional beekeepers asked Grande Prairie Regional College for specialized diagnostics services. The National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) opened as a Technology Access Centre (TAC) in April 2013. The state-of-the-art laboratory provides timely, accurate, reliable and confidential diagnostic services needed by beekeepers to make sound management decisions, remain productive and competitive. Beekeepers rely on NBDC-TAC to develop innovative techniques and then the services that will meet the emergent bee health and related market challenges. The renewed NBDC-TAC is enhancing applied research support to industry and bee researchers. It will formalize its molecular diagnostic course, develop related hive health management short courses, and reshape its high-value learn while you work student experience. NBDC-TAC contributes directly towards a sustainable, dynamic, healthy and profitable Canadian beekeeping industry.