Category: 2025
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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! Micronutrients With Large Impacts By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab After hundreds of millions of years, pollen is a pretty perfect food for raising bees. This is not an absolute; some pollens…
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Can’t We All Just Work for the Hive?
A Spotlight on AHPA’s Role in the IndustryBy Anne Marie Fauvel, AHP Program Director Let’s be honest — the beekeeping industry can use all the help it can get. With challenges like declining colony health, unsustainable honey prices and fraudulent honey imports, lack of forage and management tools, the problems are complex and deeply interconnected.…
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Honey Recipe
Pumpkin Muffins with Honey ButterBy: Granny Ruth Bake: 375°F Time: 20 minutes Servings: 12 Muffins Ingredients The Muffins □ 15 oz Canned Pumpkin □ ½ C Salted Melted Butter □ ¾ C Packed Brown Sugar □ ½ C Honey □ 2 Eggs □ 1 tsp. Vanilla □ 1¾ C Flour □ 2 tsp. Baking Powder…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bee Digestive/Excretory System Functions By: Clarence Collison “The worker honey bee ingests 4 substances: nectar, honeydew, pollen and water (Morse and Hooper, 1985b).” “The digestive system of the bee has two main functions, to provide for the nutritional needs of the bee itself and also as a means of storage and temporary transport of…
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BeeCAUSE Alliance
By: Charles Linder Just recently, Bee Culture’s very own Jerry Hayes was on an episode of the “Beekeeping Today” podcast. Be sure to give it a listen. Jerry correctly points out a huge problem in the beekeeping Industry at the moment. While we have several local groups for camaraderie, and some in more national groups…
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Smells
By: Kevin Cheatham-McFaddenThis article was originally published in The Bee Line Introduction Much of the information we gather about the world comes through our senses — taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight. Of these, smell is especially powerful in stirring emotion, often unlocking vivid memories tied to specific scents. You can probably think of a…
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A Traveling Man
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Well, I’ve done it. I have joined the ranks of migratory beekeepers. Granted, this is similar to the time I joined the ranks of America’s soybean farmers. On that occasion,…
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Hopeful Future
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Thoughts on building a healthier beekeeping future – It can be easy for beekeepers to become discouraged these days, but there are reasons to be optimistic and to keep the…