Beekeeping Program at Nashville Rotary

Fred Douville, president of the Southwest Arkansas Beekeepers Association, talked to the Nashville Rotary club on Wednesday about the importance of bees and the impact of colony collapse disorder. He told Rotarians that the true honeybee was imported into the United States years ago and therefore can not be put on the endangered list. Douville noted information that found unusually high losses of thirty to ninty percent of bee hives from 2006 to 2007. The nationwide loss on average has been forty percent. Douville says he hopes to attract more interest through education and the junior beekeeping program. Bees are important to much of the country’s food crops. To learn more information, contact Douville at (870) 210-6264 or visit swabeekeepers.org or find Southwest Arkansas Beekeepers Association on Facebook.

Nashville Rotary club president Larry Dunaway also presented member Carol Murray with a Paul Harris Fellow award. Rotarians Glenn Lance and Daniel Kirkpatrick presented two books to Nashville Primary School Librarian Kim Conatser.