Category: James Tew
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Some Common Hive Entrance Bee Activities
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! It is enjoyable and easy By: James E. Tew A handy colony inspection procedure Through the years, as I have increasingly become an older beekeeper, I have grown in my support of the…
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The Quiet, Quick Life of the Honey Bee Egg
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! The critical, but unassuming development stageBy: James E. Tew The quiet beginning The beginning stage of a honey bee’s life is the smallest and quietest of any of the four developmental stages –…
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Do I Have a Future in Beekeeping?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A fifty-year reflectionBy: James E. Tew Your present perception of beekeeping is only a snapshot in time Beekeeping today is not beekeeping past or future beekeeping. Apiculture as we know it is simply…
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What New Beekeepers Should Know About Old Beekeepers
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Old beekeepers really do mean to be helpful.By: James E. Tew Jumbled thoughts I know what I want to say, but my thoughts are tumbling over each other. Let me start like this,…
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Some Bee Behavior Bullets
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A few of your questions with some suggested answersBy: James E. Tew No shortage of questions There is no shortage of honey bee questions, but answers are not always easy to derive. Following…
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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…