2018

2018, Beekeeping, May 2018April 23, 2018

Dill And Related Herbs As Bee Plants

By: Connie Krochmal This article continues the series on herbs in the carrot/parsley family. Nearly 10 or so of these species are attractive to…

2018, Beekeeping, May 2018April 23, 2018

Checking In

By: Ross Conrad How often is enough? I recently had a fairly new beekeeper ask me how often they should inspect their hive. Apparently…

2018, May 2018, ProfilesApril 23, 2018

World Bee Day May 20th! Celebrate!

By: Ann Chilcott World Bee Day? Yes, it’s official. On the 20th December 2017 the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring…

2018, May 2018, ProfilesApril 23, 2018

All Hail! The King or Queen

By: Tina Sebestyen The queen I am referring to is the president of the bee club. Of course, not all bee club presidents are…

2018, Beekeeping, Business, May 2018April 18, 2018

U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2017

By Kim Flottum United States honey production in 2017 from producers with five or more colonies totaled 148 million pounds, down nine percent from…

2018, April 2018, ResearchMarch 27, 2018

Processing Honey: A Closer Look

By: Bob Binnie The debate on what constitutes good food seems to be endless. Diets abound with notions that are as varied as the…

2018, April 2018, Beekeeping, HoneyMarch 26, 2018

Harvesting Honey

By: David MacFawn Harvesting and extracting your honey crop in the Southeast region can occur as early as April or May. In South Carolina…

2018, April 2018, Health, ResearchMarch 26, 2018

Peering Into The Future A Path To The Genius Hive

By: Joseph Cazier The Genius hive will be able to tell you what it needs to do better. Introduction Many of the changes we are…

2018, April 2018, BeekeepingMarch 26, 2018

Bring Those Packages Home!

By: Tina Sebestyen Sometimes tragedy strikes beekeepers and bee clubs. One fellow I know had an emergency that demanded immediate attention just as he was…

2018, April 2018, BeekeepingMarch 23, 2018

SWARM INITIATION A Nurse Bee Hypothesis

By: Edward Balogh Maybe the nurse bees start it all. Dr. Tom Seeley (46) acknowledged and restated that “he would love to know how…

2018, April 2018, BeekeepingMarch 23, 2018

Garden Time

By: Ann Harman Garden catalogs are timed to arrive about the first of January. You search the pages (or online) for the vegetables and…

2018, April 2018March 23, 2018

Found In Translation

By: Jay Evans C-C-Decade –Reflections On 10 Years Of Chasing A Curse We in the scientific world can bask in many battles won through…

2018, April 2018, ProfilesMarch 23, 2018

Figure

By: Stephen Bishop In twilight, my wife’s poppaw Lowry was already sporting blue-plaid pajamas and was supposed to be retired for the day. Yet there…

2018, April 2018, ProfilesMarch 23, 2018

The Dystopian Bees Of Blade Runner 2049

By: Miles Sarvis-Wilburn The word dystopia is the antonym of utopia, the latter commonly thought of as an ideal place or good imaginary world….

2018, April 2018, ProfilesMarch 23, 2018

911

By: Peter Sieling Many years ago, an 11-year old neighbor girl followed me around the bee yard. For three or four years, Lindsay called…

2018, April 2018, BeekeepingMarch 23, 2018

Oxalic Acid & Varroa

Charlie Vanden Heuvel From commercial to backyard beekeepers the number one threat to the honey bee is Varroa Destructor Mites. Since 1987 assets coupled…