Category: Jay Evans
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Stress Management By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Many self-care routines have an element of putting stresses in context. Is that a big fire? Can you picture a way out? Is it…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Nature, Nurture and Varroa Resistance By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Western honey bees were hygienic long before the scourge of Varroa mites, or really any known mite pressures. It is literally…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Egg Sizing By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab James Tew gave a great review of The Quiet, Quick Life of the Honey Bee Egg in the May 2024 issue of Bee Culture.…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Flowers for All and All for Flowers By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Before you became a beekeeper you knew bees and beekeepers rely on flowers to succeed. Now that you keep…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Colony Turnover, The Big Picture By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Last month, I focused from inside the box on the beauty and productivity of honey bee colonies, and the parts that…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Let Bees be Bees By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Using insights from the natural habits of bees to improve one’s beekeeping is an old art. Hygienic behaviors are good examples of…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A Sense of Place for Honey Production By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much has been made of the effects of drought, crowding and other temporary disturbances on the yields gathered from…
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Bees Riding the Coattails of Crop Plants By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much is made of the challenges faced by honey bees and other pollinators living in agricultural settings and bee…