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2024 Vita calendar winners

The overall winner of this year’s Vita Bee Health international photographic competition is Susan Kimber. She wins Є100 and the two runners up, each winning Є50, are Grace Madden and 宋俞瑩 牧野工坊.

The 2024 month-by-month line up is:

January Grace Madden

February Sue Howe

March Claudia Gannon

April Keith Pownall

May Ann Chilcott

June Karen Jeffries

July Wendy Noblet

August Susan Kimber

September 宋俞瑩 牧野工坊

October Sue Howe

November Bryan Nellist

December Vincent Hakizimana

Sebastian Owen, commercial director of Vita Bee Health, said, “As ever, we thoroughly enjoyed looking at the superb entries and were then challenged picking winners. The winning photograph by Susan Kimber beautifully encapsulates the honey bee and its work. Congratulations also to Grace Madden and 宋俞瑩 牧野工坊 who have captured apiaries in different parts of the world – England and Taiwan.

“We warmly thank everyone who entered and the judging panel. Please feel free to download the pdf of the calendar.”

Winners will shortly be receiving the beautifully printed limited-edition desk calendars.

High-resolution pdf 2024 Vita Bee Health calendar

The winning image by Susan Kimber:

Vita Bee Health’s 2023 photo competition – the round dozen!

Vita Bee Health is calling for entries to its 12th annual international photo competition. Winning entries appear in the sought-after limited-edition calendar, which is sent to the Vita distribution network across the world. The closing date is 31 October 2023 (all time zones considered!), and entries are now being accepted.

The 2023 calendar cover

The outright winner of the competition receives a cash prize of €100, and two runners up €50 each. The photographs of eleven other winners will also appear in the 2024 Vita Bee Health calendar and feature in Vita’s monthly email newsletters. All winners receive a copy of the desk calendar.

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Photo competition winners 2022

This year’s overall winner of the Vita Bee Health international photographic competition is  辜立萱(KU, LI-HSUAN) with a beautiful image of brace comb being built above frames.

Featured photographers – in calendar month order – are:

Jan   辜立萱(KU, LI-HSUAN)

Feb  Ainars Millers

Mar  Karen Ford

Apr  Leka Huie

May  Sue Howe

Jun  Keith Rolleston

Jul  Kelvin Liu

Aug  Iain Bailey

Sep  Ann Chilcott

Oct   Joseph Nicolai

Nov  Margaret Edge

Dec  Ainars Millers

Plus Shu-Dhan Chen

Sebastian Owen, commercial director of Vita Bee Health, said, “We were especially pleased this year to see entries from all over the world, the winner being from Taiwan. Another, by Kelvin Liu showed a stunning photo of an apiary alive with honey bees and glowing fireflies. It was a fitting competition for our 25th anniversary as a company, showing the reach of our invaluable and committed distributors.

“We warmly thank everyone who entered and the judging panel. Please feel free to download the pdf of the calendar.”

Winners will shortly be receiving the beautifully printed limited-edition desk calendars.

High-resolution pdf 2023 Vita Bee Health calendar

Canadian beekeepers have new treatment to counter recent high winter colony losses

Last winter, Canadian honey bee colony losses in many areas often exceeded 50%, affecting honey production and honeybee supply for crop pollination across the country. Several factors have been implicated in the honeybee colony losses, the most serious reported being a failure to control the parasitic varroa mite, Varroa destructor. Nosema, other bee diseases and severe winter conditions are also in the mix.

Following huge Canadian honeybee losses last winter and spring, a product to combat two major honeybee diseases has been revitalized and reintroduced to market by honeybee health specialists Vita Bee Health. By helping to stem the losses of honeybee colonies, the treatment, OxyTet-62.5, will also be of huge benefit to Canadian agriculture which is so dependent upon healthy and plentiful pollinators.

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Vita Bee Health’s 2022 photo competition

Vita Bee Health, about to celebrate its silver anniversary, is calling for entries to its annual international photo competition. Winning entries appear in the sought-after limited-edition calendar, which is sent to the Vita distribution network across the world. The closing date is 31 October 2022, but enties are now being accepted.

Photo: Ainars Millers

The outright winner of the competition receives a cash prize, and the photographs of eleven other winners will also appear in the 2023 Vita Bee Health calendar and feature in Vita’s monthly email newsletters. All winners receive a copy of the desk calendar.

Photographs should relate to any aspect of honey bees and beekeeping. Those which reflect a particular month or season are particularly welcome.

Entrants may submit up to four photos (at least 2MB in size and preferably as attachments) by emailing them to .

The deadline for entries is 31 October 2022.

Sebastian Owen, commercial director at Vita Bee Health, said: “We never fail to be delighted by the entries to our competition from across the world. Despite all the challenges faced by honey bees and their keepers, the hobby and occupation are coping well as the photo entries show. The resulting and sought-after limited-edition calendars go to the competition winners and to our global distribution network, where we know they take pride of place on desks. ”

The competition will be judged by an international panel of beekeeping specialists and suppliers.

The outright winner of the competition will receive a €100 cash prize. Runners-up will receive a copy of the limited-edition Vita 2023 Calendar. There is also a special prize for the winner of the under-16s category.

All suitable entries will be added to the Vita Gallery, a free online resource of hundreds of honey bee-related photos now used by beekeeping lecturers and associations across the globe.

Terms and Conditions of the 2022 Vita Photo Competition

The competition is open to any individual. Up to four photos (at least 2MB each in size) relating to honeybees or beekeeping may be submitted. Please include your name, postcode (or equivalent) and country in your email. You may also include captions for your photographs if you wish.

The deadline for entries to the competition is 31 October 2022.

Entrants must certify that the image/s they are submitting is their own work and that they own the copyright. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws. In providing images for the competition, each entrant agrees that Vita can put it in the online Vita Gallery for others to use and in the Vita Calendar and to use it for marketing purposes.

Wherever used, Vita will endeavour to credit the contributor.

Postal addresses will be required from winners and runners up, these addresses will only be used to post the calendars and/or prizes. For the cash prize, bank transfer details will also be required at the appropriate time.

The judges’ decision will be final.

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