The Darby Bee Escape: Simple, Cheap and Effective
Peter Sieling In the early twentieth century, J.E. Crane wrote a series of articles in Gleanings in Bee Culture on his experiences as an…
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Thinking Outside the Bee Box:
Unusual Ways to Turn a Profit Stephen Bishop Life is full of little ironies. Last year I was on a podcast—and get this, the…
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Honey Bees Join Humans as the Only Known Animals that can Tell the Difference Between Odd and Even Numbers
Scarlett Howard & Adrian Dyer & Andrew Greentree & Jair Garcia “Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don’t wait.” As children, we learn numbers…
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The Times They Are A Changing
John Miller A trend is underway in manufacturing and transportation. Seems we are convulsed with trend changes, abrupt and sometimes shocking. This one is…
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Book Review
Mark Winston The recent full-on Russian invasion has focused and heightened attention on Ukraine and distinctive aspects of its culture, among other things bringing…
Read MoreOff the Wahl Beekeeping
Queen Rearing Richard Wahl In the April 2022 issue, I spoke about increasing your hive count and made the assumption that any splits with…
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A Closer Look
Division of Labor Individual workers perform different tasks at different ages Clarence Collison Colony life is organized by a complex and sophisticated division of…
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Oh, Bear; don’t despair
Zack Comeaux It wasn’t what I expected to see; I sort of went into shock. Toppled boxes and scattered frames. I had just expected…
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Minding Your Bees And Cues
Robbing the Honey Bank Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Honey bee management inspection protocols change throughout the season and beekeepers need to look to…
Read MoreFound in Translation
Herbal medicine for bees? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Bees have been reliant on plants, and vice versa, for tens of millions of…
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The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Bee
Ross Conrad The Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) has been in the news in recent years having made landfall in North America in late…
Read MoreMaryland Holds a Honey Show Judging Class
Allen Hayes, EAS Master Beekeeper Does your state have enough qualified honey show judges? Are the same people asked to judge year after year?…
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Curing an MRSA Infection with Direct Application of Local Honey
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban In the first years of the 21st century, my husband and I hired a carpenter-friend, John McCabe, to work on our 1855…
Read MoreHoney is Baked in Comfort food
Alice Eckles Everyone was baking. Flour was flying off the shelves. People who never baked a loaf of bread in their lives decided that…
Read MoreThe tale of an ecological whodunnit
Rosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
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Your Ad Deer, Inc.
Stephen Bishop For anyone looking for prime advertising space, boy have I got a deal for you. Last night, while I was driving home…
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Book Reviews
Kim Flottum Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Third Edition. Dewey M. Caron and Lawrence John Connor. Published by Wicwas Press LLC, Kalamazoo, MI 49001….
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Prepper Nation Jessica Lawrence I am so tired of politics. What was once a (mostly) mildly disagreeable topic that could be discussed with some…
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Bee Vet
The Diagnosis of the Shrew Dr. Tracy Farone One thing about beekeeping is it always provides an opportunity to learn something new. It definitely…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bee Environmental Monitoring Clarence Collison Human Activities Produce Contaminants Human activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s…
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