Working To Protect Honey Bees From Varroa
Katie Harrington You can tell the health of a beehive from its buzz. Just ask Barry Hart, who bought his first bees in 1987….
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4 Easy Steps
Jason Carr Four easy steps to minimize pollinator impact when spraying Through my lifelong experiences in agriculture and as a beekeeper, I have sometimes…
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Preparing Honey For Market
Honey Processing Ross Conrad When it comes to processing honey, beekeepers have it relatively easy. The bees do the lion’s share of the work….
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A Closer Look
Taste Perception Honey Bee Chemosensory Organs Clarence Collison “Taste is crucial for honey bees for choosing profitable food sources, resins, water sources, and for…
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Pose Long-Term Risks For Beekeeping Industry Matt Mulica Commercial beekeepers are finding success treating Varroa, a parasitic mite that kills honey bees, in their…
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Summer Recipes
Shana Archibald Honey Garlic Pork Chops 15 oz. (430 g) center cut boneless pork chops (3 pork chops) salt ground black pepper 1 tablespoon…
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Bigger Picture
The Devil’s In The Details Jessica Louque Most of us have our bees in fairly rural places. It can be shady, sunny, pristine, wild,…
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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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Cleared For Takeoff
By: Steve Repasky “Cleared for takeoff” is a common phrase heard at airports all over the world referring to the clearance given by air…
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Pollination In China
By: Mariann Fercsik It’s Not The Bees “With the introduction of China’s Home Responsibility System in the 1980s, the farmers of Hanyuan County in…
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Bees Need Meat?
By: Kirk Anderson The process of science involves new discoveries and continuous revision. The culture of science has placed a premium on novelty, but…
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Herding Genes With Epigenetics
By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Knowing the complete genome of an animal, whether human, bee, or worm, can go a long way toward…
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It Began with Brother Adam
By: Tina Sebestyen Brother Adam lived an incredible life, and contributed greatly to beekeeping in several ways, but most of all in creating a…
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