2019 NATIONAL HONEY REPORT
Released March 19, 2020, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Special Note Honey…
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A Silver Bullet
By: M.E.A. McNeil “Brilliant. Just brilliant.” Oregon State University microbiologist Maude David was speaking about a honey bee gut bacterium engineered to defend against…
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Varroa Resistant Bees Get $1 Million In Norway
By: Erik Osterlund Dr Melissa Oddie, a Canadian researcher, will continue her research for at least two years based on the Varroa resistant bees…
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PROBIOTICS: Pro = For, Biotic = Life
By: M.E.A. McNeil Probiotic: pro means for, biotic means life. For life. Yes, we’re for life. More life, more better, right? Maybe. Maybe not. For…
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The Other Bees – We Are Not Alone
By: Sam Droege Species in The United States:134 Species in Canada: 40 Common everywhere Size Relative to Honey Bee: ½ – 1.5X Flight Season: Spring…
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Found In Translation – Modified Bacteria To Contain Varroa
By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab When it comes to microbes in honey bee colonies, the bad guys get all the press. Since Aristotle…
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Who Put The Sugar In The Manure Pile?
By: Mike McNally How often have you heard beekeepers talk about why their bees are all over compost piles, manure piles or sawdust piles….
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Bee Talk
By: Jerry Hayes Question 1 More Bees are considered better than less honey bees in a colony. But, as Spring arrives populous, healthy honey…
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From The Editor – An Interview With Ross Conrad
By: Alice Eckles Alice Eckles – I know you were a communications major in college, how did you end up keeping bees for a…
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From the Editor; Interview with Dr. Jamie Ellis
By: Jerry Hayes A 4.5 Million Dollar state of the art Honey Bee Lab, dozens of grad students over the years, a series of…
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Pesticide Ignorance
By: Michele Colopy Last year at a state beekeeping conference an academic researcher discussing bee health stated “glyphosate does not harm bees.” When questioned…
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Horizontal Beekeeping
By: Tina Sebestyen My first mentor was a commercial beekeeper, so I learned Langstroth style management, but it was a Kenyan top bar hive…
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Why are Bees Stripey
By: Mary Montuat, Editor of The Irish Beekeepers Journal My eye was caught recently by a bizarre news item from Japan. It described an…
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Found in Translation, Beeoptimism-Five Reasons
#Beeoptomism 2.0: Let’s not go viral. By: Jay Evans I am a huge fan of the #Beeoptimism movement. Built on a similar effort to…
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New Years Resoultions
Author: Ann Harman You have your new Bee Culture calendar all ready to hang up. Your New Year’s Eve celebrations are all arranged. You…
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Found in Translation
Author: Jay Evans Last month I reviewed fundamental studies that have used hand-tagged bees to determine with actuarial precision the typical worker bee lifespan…
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A New Decade
Author: James E. Tew The year was 1964 I was 16. My grandparents were alive and well and lived on the family farm. Life…
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Fired Up for Bee Hunting!
Author: Thomas Seeley Bee hunting is the sport of finding wild colonies of honey bees. To pursue it, you usually start by capturing a…
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Economic Outlook for 2020 Almond Pollination Season
Author: Brittney Goodrich The following article summarizes my outlook for the 2020 almond pollination season in terms of estimated demand for colonies, pollination fees,…
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