The Inner Cover
Toward the end of this month we will be hosting three webinars as part of the Healthy Bees 2020 program organized by Project Apis…
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No Spraying Required
A Better Way To Protect Crops, and Bees By: John Dietz Beekeepers may be delivering a new service for crop producers, in North America…
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Pandora’s Box
African Honey Bees & Climate Change By: Ed Edwin Pandora, of classical Greek mythology, was given a box which contained all the evils of…
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Requeening, Again
By: Larry Connor The young worker looked at the owner, dumbfounded. “You want me to kill all the queens I find in these colonies?” The…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Extracting honey from cantankerous combs. Odds and Ends – Dark socks and crystallized honey. By: James E. Tew Extracting from cold, older combs I…
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Regional Honey Price Report
June Report Spring Reckoning We went to our reporters this month and asked about their Spring weather, and how it had affected the…
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It’s Summers Time!
Root Company, Kids and Still…No Ducks! A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity for the second year in a row to talk…
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Bee Audacious
By: Mark Winston Bee Audacious was a collaborative working conference that utilized dialogue to envision bold evidence-based ideas through which honey bees, other bees,…
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The Beehive Thief
By: Peter Sieling Dresden, NY Feb. 1919 – William Keefer awoke to discover that eight of his honey bee colonies were missing. He was the…
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Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (CBPV)
By: Don Coats Watch for this killer. It’s not passed by Varroa. Introduction: This article reports on a honey bee colony struggling for survival…
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Build a Sales Display
By: Ed Simon It was time to put a little pizazz into our sales display that we use for flea markets and other events….
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Pesticide Kill Redux
It has to do with the soil, rain and location. By: Bob Brachmann When the first break in the weather at the end of…
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Experiences With a Top Bar Hive
By: David Dawson If you’re going to manage your top bar hive for honey production – you’re going to have problems. Introduction. Keeping bees…
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Bill Sheppard, Jr.
As Good As It Gets For Bees & Beekeepers In NC By: Lane Kreitlow A NC treasure from age six on – Bill was…
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Xenophobia
What honey bees have taught me. By: Benjamin Eichorn My dad, Peter, has been keeping honey bees along the central coast of California since…
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No Lifting!
Something Old Is New In America By: Brian Drebber Slovenian or AZ hives have been around as long as the more common Langstroth hive…
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#SCIENCEMARCH
By: Toni Burnham Honey bees, unlike marchers, stay inside when it pours down rain. Here in DC, advocates for pollinator research got soaked, instead….
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A Closer Look
Worker Reproduction Reproductive workers are seldom seen in colonies with a laying queen. Honey bee workers are sexually undeveloped females and under normal hive…
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Found in Translation
By Jay Evans Can Propolis Be Used To Improve Colony Health Having visited Brother Adam’s apiaries at Buckfast Abbey and his honey sites in…
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A RUDE AWAKENING
By: Ross Conrad My typical Winter losses over the last decade have tended to hover between 10-18%. Not ideal, but far better than what most…
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