Minding Your Bees and Cues
Propolis 10 Ways By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel What is propolis? Etymologically, propolis derives from the Greek for “before the city” (pro=before, polis=…
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Stress and Sickness
By: Jay Evans Honey bees are interconnected within colonies, with a crowded three-dimensional space that favors constant contact. Add shared feeding and a mite…
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Reading a Colony
By: Daivd MacFawn When examining a hive, the beekeeper can tell what is going on inside by answering a few important questions. Does the…
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Cover Crops – Worth It?
Author: Bill Sync This year the entire West and Northern Midwest is experiencing drought, leaving some growers with barely enough water to keep their…
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Varroa Population Dynamics
By: Ross Conrad Last month we reviewed the results of a trial comparing treatment-free cultural controls with a commercially approved acaricide (Bee Culture September…
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Common Floral Bacteria
By: Shawn Christensen, UC Davis Certain species of floral bacteria can enhance pollen germination, according to a study published from the University of California,…
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Critical Thoughts
Seasonal Beekeeping Management By: Earl Hoffman Please consider these critical thoughts to guide your beekeeping management – Now that Summer solstice is over, and…
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Winter is Coming
Found in Translation By: Jay Evans When this column comes out, many in the northern hemisphere will still feel the heat of a long…
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A Tanging Tempest in the Beeyard
By: James E. Tew Should I apologize? Should I immediately apologize for spending your reading time on an antiquated subject like “tanging” while other…
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Cell Punch Queen Rearing
By: Roland Gerner With this method, even beekeepers who have difficulties with grafting due to failing eyesight or other reasons can breed queens. It…
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Florida State Science Fair
Most teens favor dogs, cats, or maybe fish. Atreya Manaswi, a 9th grader from Orlando, Florida, prefers a very different creature: Apis mellifera, the…
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Going for a Ride
How Bees Carrying Fungi are Protecting Agroecosystems Part 1 By: Charlotte Coates et al. In recent years, the global decline in pollinator populations has…
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Resilience
By: Jay Evans I have been wearing the same underwear for 25 years. And the only thing weird about that is how well they…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Do You Really Need to Spray That? By: Becky Masterman and Bridget Mendel On a recent trip to an apiary, we encountered a neighboring…
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Bee Management Anxiety
By: James E. Tew A cold, steady rain is coming down: It’s May 9th in Northeast Ohio. Maple blooms – long gone. This season’s…
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Grant Money to Start Beekeeping
By: Jon Zawislak Government agencies, private entities and virtuous citizens have all been concerned for the plight and peril of pollinators for over a…
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Sylvatic
By: Dr. Tracy Farone In honor of pollinator month this June, I have decided to highlight the sylvatic side of bee medicine: Our wild bees….
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Pollinator Week
By: Matt Mulica By now we’re all familiar with the sobering statistics of population declines among honey bees. From 2013-2020, annual managed bee losses were…
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Dogs Can Smell Honey Bee Disease
By: Dewey Caron Dogs are famous for their sense of smell. A dog’s sense is so advanced they can smell disease in bees or…
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Bee Keepers’ Guide To Honey Bee Viruses
Anna Gajda DVM, Phd, Warsaw University Of Life Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Bee Diseases, anna_gajda@sggw.edu.pl Ewa Mazur DVM, Warsaw University Of…
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