Honey Bees, Antibiotics and Gut Microbia
By: Rebecca Novak Tibbitt The role of antibiotics is both good, and bad in honey bee microbia. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin,…
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Killer Bee Honey
By: Abu Bakr Ladd African Bees Make Honey From Magic Trees. “And thy Lord has inspired the bee saying, ‘Make thou houses in the hills…
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History of the Muth Bottle, Part 1
By: Jim Thompson The first jar invented specifically for honey. I collect old honey jars and when I heard that the Muth Jar was…
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Converting Customers To Cremed or Granulated Honey
By: Howard Scott Make more money. Work less. In the market shelf these days, I see more and more cremed and crystallized honey. There…
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Zika and Bee Kills
By: Tom Rearick Bee kills from pesticide treatments are not new. What is new is a rational fear of the Zika virus and the…
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Backyards and Bees
By: Eugene Makovec Four years ago I moved bees from Kirkwood, Missouri – the heart of the St. Louis suburbs – to my new…
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The Voices of Bee Culture
SEPTEMBER 22-24, MEDINA, OH COME HEAR THE VOICES OF BEE CULTURE SPEAKING THE WAY THEY WRITE Visit our site at https://beeculture.com/
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Bee kid’s corner
In Search Of The Better Beehive
By Ann Harman In Search Of The Better Mousetrap Beehive When people start looking for a place to live – a home to…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Honey Daze This was going to be the year. We were determined to harvest honey this year. I hadn’t had a…
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On Honey Bees and Fungi
By: Ross Conrad The relationship is a complicated one… The honey bee has an interesting relationship with fungi. Some fungi are harmful to bees…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Robbing or swarming? A couple of things that I feel I need to say. Odds and Ends – Hot bees and…
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Bottom Board
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Liquid nitrogen is very cold – between -320° and -346°F. And it’s not cheap, but Katie Lee told me you…
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A Closer Look
TROPHALLAXIS Trophallactic interactions can frequently be seen non-randomly between all members of the colony. Trophallaxis, the transfer of food by mouth from one individual to another,…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Minerals And The Bees’ Needs Rachael Bonoan and colleagues at Tufts University have been studying the impacts of salt and other minerals on honey…
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Bigger Picture
Swarm Shaming I don’t know how everyone else’s Spring season went with their bees, but we had an insane amount of swarms this year….
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Bee Venom Therapy
If modern medicine is unable to help you, try Bee Venom Therapy (BVT)…you have little to lose. The use of honey bee products for…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Processing thick honey from heavy combs. An aggressive colony in a suburban area. My opening comment last month For this continued honey processing topic, I…
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The Honey Bee Health Coalition
Recent Accomplishments And Where We Are Heading Shapiro, Dykes, Sears, Hays, Berthelsen, Waycott Intro/Overview, by Julie Shapiro Honey bees play an integral role in…
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Pacific Northwest Foraging
In this series thus far we’ve jumped hither and yon over much of the West. This month, we’ll focus on the Northwest. “Pacific Northwest…
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