Nadja’s Favorites: A City Ecosystem
By: Becky Masterman and Bridget Mendel Finding Nadja’s Minneapolis home on a Summer day does not require house numbers. Just drive until you find the…
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Asian Giant Hornet
By: Jennifer Berry The first time I saw the video of Asian giant hornets devouring a honey bee colony, I was heartbroken. To watch…
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Murder Hornet: The Japanese Perspective
By: Allen Summers Yeah – I’ve been seeing the articles in media lately about “Murder Hornets” like you have. Think the way it’s being…
Read MoreMake a Calendar for Your Bees
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Each year in January we get…
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Time & Money Saving Tips & Tools
By: Darryl Gabritsch This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years A lot of books and bee…
Read MoreFirst Year Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article first appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years • Monitor Varroa with alcohol wash…
Read MoreThe 4 P’s of Beekeeping
By: Michele Colopy This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Pests, pathogens, pesticides, and poor forage…
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Boxes 101 | Measure Twice, Check Once, Cut a Few Hundred Times
By: Zachary Lamas This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Building boxes can be quite profitable…
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What Not to Worry About During Your First Year Beekeeping
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Beekeeping has gotten complicated: Feeding, mites,…
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The Next Generation
By: Erin Hayes This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years In a rural town in northern…
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Keeping Bees | Lessons From the Ultimate Coop
By: Jackie Hough This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years A few months ago, a good…
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Urban Swarms: Why You Should Care
By: Marcel E. Durieux This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years One of the happy differences…
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We Aren’t the Problem
By: Peter Keilty This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years We live in an age where…
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Years 2 & 3 Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years • Harvest honey during first two…
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On Darwinian Beekeeping
By: Malcolm Sanford This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The board of directors applauds Dr….
Read MoreA Brand New USDA Bee Research Lab
By: Julia D. Fine and Arathi Seshadri This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years On January…
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Why Honey Pollen Is Difficult To Interpret
By: Vaughn Bryant I have been examining pollen in honey samples for over 50 years and I am just now getting good at…
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Veteran Mike
By: Becky Masterman Over an open colony of bees, Mike Roche told me how thankful he was to be alive. He was a man…
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2019 NATIONAL HONEY REPORT
Released March 19, 2020, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Special Note Honey…
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A Silver Bullet
By: M.E.A. McNeil “Brilliant. Just brilliant.” Oregon State University microbiologist Maude David was speaking about a honey bee gut bacterium engineered to defend against…
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