Baton Rouge Scientist Spotlight
By: Kate E. Ihle In the USDA lab in Baton Rouge, our mission is to breed stronger, more resilient honey bees. We typically do…
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Buying and Establishing Bee Colony Splits
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Our Bobcat By: Ed Colby Up the road at the nudie hot springs, the mercury hovers in the ‘teens. Shafts of early morning sunlight…
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2023 American Honey Queen & Princess Hail from Florida & Iowa
By: Anna Kettlewell, American Honey Queen Program Chairperson The American Beekeeping Federation is proud to announce that Selena Rampolla and Allison Hager were selected…
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Tropilaelaps
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Read MoreTradescantia – A Pollinators’ Feast for Shade
By: Alyssum Flowers It is relatively easy to find blooming plants for sunny areas, but growing shade plants that provide food for pollinators can…
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A Closer Look
Tropilaelaps Mites By: Clarence Collison A potential future threat of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) in North America are the parasitic mites in the…
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Sometimes the Solution is Simpler Than You Think
By: John Kefuss In 1975, I went to Weaver Apiaries in Navasota, Texas to learn commercial queen rearing and package bee production. At that…
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Minding Your Bees And Cues
CRP R(Evolution) By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel In the early 1970’s, the Soviet Union experienced massive crop failures. Keep reading… Desperate, the USSR…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
New(ish) Beekeeper Column Off the Wahl Beekeeping Nucleus Hives and Splits Richard Wahl All too often, the beginning beekeeper tries a few shortcuts, such…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Being Heard By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel A check in with our favorite farmer and pollinator promoter, Keith Johnson, reminds us that we…
Read MoreIf Bees Disappear Then What?
By: Ed Erwin No Bees – No Sex (for Some Plants) It has been purported that Albert Einstein said: “If the bees disappeared off…
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2023 Hive Life Conference
Beekeeping Critical Thoughts By: Earl Hoffman The 2023 Hive Life Conference was held in Sevierville, Tennessee at the Sevierville Conference Center on January 5-7,…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison Pollen Micronutrients Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals available to honey bees are factors responsible for the amount of progeny produced,…
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Iona Fowls By: Nina Bagley Iona Fowls was born on September 7, 1882 in Oberlin, Ohio. She had an older sister Violet and a…
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Bee Vet
State Apiarists and Veterinarians By: Dr. Tracy Farone Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to reach out to several State Apiarists to discuss…
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1890 Land-Grant Funded Bee Researcher
By: Austin Carey Dr. Hongmei Li-Byarlay is an Associate Professor of Entomology at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Hongmei Li-Byarlay was born in…
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Small-Scare Pollination Pricing
By: David MacFawn Note: all data, numbers, tables and equations used in this article was collected in late-2019/early-2020. Crop pollination can be a viable…
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Lessons of 2022 By: Ed Colby Oh, fun time!” my cheerful pharmacist laughed when I informed her of my impending colonoscopy. For those of…
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The Classic System of Two-Queen Colony Honey Production
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