Frame Time: All About Feeding Bees
By: Jennifer Berry This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years When the hot, sweltering days of…
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Beeswax
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years A colony of honey bees tends…
Read MoreThe Editor’s Hive
By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The Care and Feeding Of Honey…
Read MoreHive Tasks: October, November, December
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years • Make October first “Put Mouse…
Read MoreGood Stuff From Ann: Ready, Set, Go!
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years During October, November and December you…
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Small Scale Wax
By: Ed Simon This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years All the capping wax is sitting…
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Other Hives: Wintering Your Top Bar Hive
By: Christy Hemenway This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Gold Star Honey bees® is a…
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Got Questions? Phil Knows!
By: Phil Craft This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Q: How to get a hive…
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Pollen Substitutes
By: Clarence Collison This article appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The use of a pollen substitute in…
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Inner Cover
It was a good garden season this year. Appropriate rain in the spring, but then dry, dry, dry all of June, July and the…
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It’s Summer’s Time
LABOR DAY WEEKEND by- Kathy Summers As I write this we have just finished up Labor Day weekend 2016 – can you believe it….
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Democracy
What we can learn from the bees. by-Tony Harris Honey bees perform the waggle dance on the comb within a nest to inform other…
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Observations From The International Pollinator Research Conference
by-Michele Colopy The Third International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health & Policy, held July 18-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University. It was supported by…
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The Cappings Scratcher or The Uncapping Fork
by- Jim Thompson It all depends on how you plan to use the Cappings Scratcher or the Uncapping Fork as to what you want…
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Sabine Creek Honey Farm
by- Kim Flottum The city of McKinney, Texas, is north and a tad east of Dallas and sits smack in the middle of Collin…
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Do I Need a Vet for My Bees?
by- Chris Cripps A Q&A on FDA’s new antibiotic regulations. Q. I heard I have to have a veterinarian for my bees –…
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Master Beekeeping Programs
by- Jerry Bromenshenk The face of beekeeping education looks vastly different than it did 10 years ago and is continuing to change. There is…
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Manuka Honey Thefts in New Zealand
by- Alan Harman Organized crime is targeting New Zealand’s lucrative honey industry, threatening its NZ$242-million- (US$176.5-million-) a-year export market. At a recent meeting, New…
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A Closer Look
Sperm Viability by- Clarence Collison The survival of a honey bee colony depends, in part, on the reproductive success of the queen, which in…
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Processing Propolis: Part 1
by: Ross Conrad The crisp cool Autumn weather arrives at a time when the color of the leaves change, mice build nests in well-protected…
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