Some Carrot Family Bee Plants
By: Connie Krochmal The Umbelliferae family is a treasure trove of pollinator plants. This group is named for the flower heads, which are typically umbrella-shaped….
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Make This Bee Lining Box
By: Frank Linton A Package Of Cookies, Some Rubber Bands, Sticky Tape And Your Jacknife. Improvised Bee Lining Box Can you recall a time…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Conflicted beekeepers and invasive plant species. The inspiration of talking to super-senior beekeepers. Odds and Ends. I’m conflicted about my bees and invasive plant…
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2018 Almond Pollination Market Outlook: Demand, Supply, and Contracts
By: Brittney Goodrich The end of 2017 is here, and the upcoming almond pollination season in California looms on the horizon. Many of you…
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DOWNTOWN New Hope In The Fight Against Varroa
Samuel Ramsey One thing you might hear about Samuel Ramsey, soon-to-be-Ph.D from the University of Maryland, is that he is a great speaker: during…
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It Took 50,000+ Dead Bumble Bees . . .
By Dewey Caron In Wilsonville, Oregon there was a massive kill of bumble bees in the parking lot of a Target store on a…
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Bigger Picture
The Business of Bees: Part II of III In Part I of this series, I explained how to do a Sole Proprietorship for a…
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It’s Summers Time!
THE NATIONAL HONEY SHOW AND ENGLAND I wanted to share a bit more of our trip to England with you. Leaving my own country…
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Regional Honey Price Report
JANUARY REPORT Some Management Practices We asked our reporters about some of their management practices this month, expanding it some from the survey we…
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Neonicotinoid Pesticides: A Major Problem For Bees, Part IV
By: Ross Conrad The often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by the…
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Found in Translation
By: Jay Evans #Beeoptomism: What if the super really is half full? My ears perked up recently on hearing several leaders in environmental…
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Inner Cover
Quentin Starr Wagner By: Kim Flottum When I first moved to Medina I lived in a rented house for several months, letting John Root, my new…
Read MoreWhy We Keep Bees?
Reasons you may not have thought of. by Joe Traynor Ask a beekeeper – commercial, sideliner or hobbyist – why he/she keeps bees and…
Read MoreTen Rules: Rule 2 Part 2
by Kim Flottum Finishing up on Rule 2 about having Good Genetics, we get to the basics…resistant of the common problems, efficient producers, and…
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Rule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a…
Read MoreFive Friends Any City Beekeeper Wants to Have
by Toni Burnham City beekeepers often worry about the resources surrounding our bees. Well, here is another reason to take heart! We live in a…
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Picking up where we left off with Good Queens, the next obvious piece of this is that good queens should be healthy beyond belief….
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10 Rules of Modern Beekeeping There are, I’m certain, far more than 10 rules that you can use to guide you through the common…
Read MoreClosing down
It’s been a hard autumn this year. A long, but not particularly difficult recovery from back surgery last fall kept me at mostly three…
Read MoreSpreading the Good News, and the Honey
About 60 yards or so from my house runs one of the many small creeks Ohio seems to have. I live just north of…
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