Category: January 2024
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What Beekeeping Taught Me in 2023
Best Lesson Learned So Far By: David Burns I’ve been keeping bees for twenty-eight years and you would think I’d have it figured out and at my age, probably be well past learning anything new. However, last year was probably the year that I learned the most important lesson in beekeeping, and it probably isn’t…
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Honey Recipe
Honey-Graham Fruit Pizza from the National Honey Board Website (https://honey.com/recipe/honey-graham-fruit-pizza) Ingredients □ 1¾ cups all-purpose flour □ ½ cup whole wheat or graham flour □ 1 tsp baking powder □ ¼ tsp baking soda □ ¼ tsp salt □ ¼ cup (½ stick) butter or margarine, melted □ ⅓ cup honey □ 1 tsp vanilla…
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Innovative Approach to Extracting High Quality Propolis
By: Dvykaliuk Roman Propolis is a sticky resinous substance collected from the buds, leaves and stems of wild plants and processed by bees, which has bactericidal properties and is used by bees to seal cracks in a hive, polish walls of wax cells and embalm corpses of enemies (mice, reptiles, etc.) (DSTU 4662, 2006). The…
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The Early Days
Bee Research and Extension Programs at University of California, Davis: The Early DaysThe UC Davis Series By: Elina L. Niño Named after the “father of honey bee genetics” Dr. Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., the Bee Research Facility is a part of a larger, as I like to refer to it, Bee Complex located only a…
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Bees and Women
Mrs. Susan Hall By: Nina Bagley Susan Hall was born in 1841 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Her parents were Daniel and Mary Hall, both born in England. They had three children: Robert born in 1838, Susan born in 1841 and, after immigrating to America in 1848, Mary born in 1850. During 1815 and 1837, Ely…
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For the Love of Bees
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Some of the ways backyard beekeepers benefit commercial operations and vice-versaBy: Ross Conrad The beekeeping community is generally divided into two primary categories. There are commercial entrepreneurs and small-scale part-time backyard beekeeping enthusiasts.…
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A Conversation with Kim Flottum, Part 2
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Retired, Longtime Bee Culture Magazine Editor By: James E. Tew Last Month Bee Culture readers, last month, Kim told us the story of his early years as editor of this magazine. Editor Jerry, the current…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Interview with Dr. Hongmei Li-Byarlay, Associate Professor and Project Director for Pollinator Health, Central State University, Ohio By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Where are you from originally? *I was born…