Urban Forests: Plant City Trees for City Bees
By Christine Taylor It starts in the trees, densely covered with thousands of flowers give bees an eco-rich source of nectar and pollen. However,…
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Selling Honey for $20 a Pound
30 Tips On Selling Honey. You Don’t Have To Be Clever, Just Honest By: Leo Sharashkin “Do you have local honey?” inquired a store…
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NOD Apiary Products’ Story Of Innovation The Challenge
Part 1, Developing An Environmentally Friendly Miticide By: David VanderDussen and Kathleen Ireland This article is the first of three about the process of…
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DOWNTOWN Easy Urban Crime Reduction
Apiary Hygiene! At this month’s club meeting, we handed out 6” by 16” rectangles of eight-to-the-inch hardware cloth to any member who wanted one,…
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A Closer Look
VIRAL DISEASE SUSPECTIBILITY AND TRANSMISSION Transmission among colonies is a central feature for the epidemiology of honey bee pathogens.. Honey bees are social insects living in…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Pollen Counts: New Ways To Assess Forage Quality A clear understanding of the range and diversity of pollen collected by honey bees is important…
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It’s Summers Time!
SWARMS, CHICKEN BULLYING AND BEE FEST We’ve had a busy, but fun and exciting late Spring and early Summer. I have lots to talk…
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Ann Harman: Worker Bee Extraordinaire
By: Dewey Caron A bee colony has to have many worker bees to get all the tasks done. So too does an organization, as…
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The Inner Cover
It started out as a typical hectic Spring. Then it got worse. Then it got real worse. Worse, as in things kept happening that…
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Ed Colby
Two Dollops of Honey By the time you read this, it’ll be over. But right now, in the merry month of May, I…
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July- Regional Honey Market Report
Honey Label Use We took a look at honey jar labels this month, seeing what our reporters use, and don’t use. Perhaps you will…
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Pollinator Day 2017
On Saturday, July 15th we’re holding our third Pollinator Day here at the Root Company’s Pollinator Meadow, behind our Corporate Headquarters. There’s a several…
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The Inner Cover
Toward the end of this month we will be hosting three webinars as part of the Healthy Bees 2020 program organized by Project Apis…
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No Spraying Required
A Better Way To Protect Crops, and Bees By: John Dietz Beekeepers may be delivering a new service for crop producers, in North America…
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Pandora’s Box
African Honey Bees & Climate Change By: Ed Edwin Pandora, of classical Greek mythology, was given a box which contained all the evils of…
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Requeening, Again
By: Larry Connor The young worker looked at the owner, dumbfounded. “You want me to kill all the queens I find in these colonies?” The…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Extracting honey from cantankerous combs. Odds and Ends – Dark socks and crystallized honey. By: James E. Tew Extracting from cold, older combs I…
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Regional Honey Price Report
June Report Spring Reckoning We went to our reporters this month and asked about their Spring weather, and how it had affected the…
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It’s Summers Time!
Root Company, Kids and Still…No Ducks! A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity for the second year in a row to talk…
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Bee Audacious
By: Mark Winston Bee Audacious was a collaborative working conference that utilized dialogue to envision bold evidence-based ideas through which honey bees, other bees,…
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