Found In Translation
By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab I have highlighted the insightful work by Dr. Samuel Ramsey showing that Varroa mites slice their way…
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The Story of A.I. Root
By: A.I. Root To make it a little more of an object for some beekeeper in every neighborhood to canvass his locality for subscribers,…
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Producing Ross Rounds By: Kim Carpenter What is Comb Honey Simply stated, comb honey is honey that is produced by the bees in the…
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A View From French Hill
By: Adam Foster Collins Meeting Mike Palmer, Part 1 Vermont is my childhood home and bees have been in my family for generations. I…
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Bee Farming In The United Kingdom (From The Beginning To Now, Part 1)
By: Ann Chilcott This is the first article in a three-part series on bee farming in the United Kingdom by Tony Harris N.D.B. (National…
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The MiteCheck App
By: Jonathan Engelsma (Grand Valley State Univ), Meghan Milbrath (MI State Univ), Karen Rennich (BIP), James Willkes (Appalachian State Univ) Early Spring is the time…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum I’ve been talking with someone who is interested in starting a business dealing with the beekeeping industry. He has extensive, successful experience…
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The Story of A.I. Root (Gleanings In Bee Culture – The Early Days, The 1870s)
By: A.I. Root Gleanings in Bee Culture was started on January 1, 1873, as a quarterly for the purpose of answering the multitude of…
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Sustainable Beekeeping (Never Buy Bees Again. Part 2)
By: Meghan Milbrath A few spring-like days means that beekeepers are peeking in their hives, hoping to find big clusters and heavy boxes. Inevitably, we’ll…
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Good Queens Good Real Estate Good-Bye Mites
By: Maryann Frazier As beekeepers we disagree about many things (some would say, most things) regarding how best to keep bees healthy and productive. And…
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GORMANSTON
BY: Ettamarie Peterson Many years ago I started visiting the Irish Beekeepers’ Yahoo List to learn what they were doing “across the pond” as they…
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Decoding the Songs Of Bees
By: Jerry Bromenshenk, Robert Seccomb, Colin Henderson, David Firth Bee Alert Technology Inc; Missoula, MT NPR 02/18/2019, Headline: Massive Loss of Thousands of Hives…
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Thermal Efficiency
By : Derek Mitchell Honey bees collect flower nectar to make honey, but that is only the beginning. It can be shown that they…
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The Story of A.I. Root
By : A.I. Root Humbugs & Swindles In The Bee Business “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in…
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It’s Summers Time – Meetings, Friends, October and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers Spring is trying to be in the air, but without much success. It was 22°F this morning when we got…
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INNERCOVER
By : Kim Flottum Take a look at that article on thermal efficiency on page 61. Read it, then read it again. I found…
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The Next Generation In Disease Control
By : Gerry Hayes Phages are a virus that eat bacteria At the 2019 American Honey Producer Association (AHPA) held in Phoenix, AZ I…
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SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING
By : Meghan Milbrath I used to keep a small flock of sheep, and I would go through a lot of hay. One day…
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Found In Translation – Winter Stirrings
By : Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Some people say spring starts with the mating of great-horned owls in late December. These people are…
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Imagining The Unimaginable – A World Where Honey Bees Thrive
By : Ross Conrad In the September 2018 issue of Bee Culture we explored what a world in which honey bees and pollinators are…
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