March 2016

by Ann Harman Bees produce a wonderful product – honey. It is up to you, the beekeeper, to make their product attractive for sales…

The Pollinator Stewardship Council Being A Nonprofit Means Being A Business by Michele Colopy Have you read Part I yet? If you haven’t, click…

by James E. Tew The modern chaotic honey bee Internet The answer is out there. Can you find it? Well here it is –…

Thermal Top Bar Hive Beekeeping by Wyatt Mangum Top-bar hive beekeeping is a popular and pleasant way to keep bees. There are no heavy…

Common Questions by Sue Cobey Introduction Selective breeding and stock improvement are recognized as the long term solution to challenges facing the beekeeping industry….

Make Excellent Bee Plants by Connie Krochmal The snowy white blossoms of the native serviceberries are a familiar sight during the Spring in most…

Bees, Beetles, Fine Art Prints and Teaching Beekeeping In Primitive Conditions by Larry Connor Bo Sterk and I met at the Florida Bee College…

Got A Question? He Knows! by Phil Craft A beekeeper in Kentucky writes: Ordered my bees for April 2016. I plan on setting up…

Pollinator Friendly Gardening. Gardening For Bees, Butterflies, And Other Pollinators. Rhonda Fleming Hayes. Published by Voyageur Press. 8” x 10”, soft cover, color throughout,…

Winter Uses For Thermal Cameras by Jerry Bromenshenk It’s Winter in Montana, 17oF outside, and snowing. Obviously, it’s not a good time to open…

Blue Moon by Jessica Louque Blue is my favorite color. Unfortunately, it’s not always nature’s favorite color. Either that or nature really loves blue…

by Ann Chilcott If you have never experienced a Scottish hillside in August with the heather in full bloom, and its unmistakably sweet scent…

by Ed Colby I like to mound snow around my beehives for insulation, and this clear, bitter-cold January day would be a good day…

by Jennifer Berry While the frost still lingers here in the south (and the snow to our north), it’s time to take care of…

by Clarence Collison Vibrations and sounds, collectively called vibroacoustics, play significant roles in intracolony communication in honey bees (Hunt and Richard 2013). For many…

A Bee Problem We Can Potentially Solve – Part 3 by Ross Conrad The dramatic increase in the earth’s atmospheric carbon levels and the…

by William Hesbach Two Queens One Colony As beekeepers discovered long ago, a single colony with two queens generally builds a large population of…

The Best Way To Kill Varroa With Oxalic Acid by Frances L.W. Ratnieks, Luciano Scandian, Hasan Al Toufailia Summary LASI research shows that of…