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A Persistent Bear Ed Colby That bear keeps coming around. She hasn’t gotten past the fence around the bee yard, yet. But she’s intrigued….
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Going Places with Balloon Flower
Alyssum Flowers A true blue champion in the garden is balloon flower or Chinese bellflower, Platycodon grandiflorus, a two foot tall clump forming perennial…
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Study Hall
From the Editor, Jerry Hayes WEED KILLER and BEES QUESTION If I spray to kill Johnson Grass on my farm, will I potentially harm…
Read MoreWorld Bee Day in Ukraine During the Russian Invasion
Tanya Richardson & Leonora Adamchuk The UN created World Bee Day in 2018 to highlight the importance of pollinators and the threats that they…
Read MoreHoney Bees: Should they be banned from native plant restoration areas?
Kathy Keatley Garvey What’s a honey bee to do? The dwindling resources of pollen and nectar producing plants in California greatly concern bee scientists…
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The Imprecise Precision of Beekeeping
Hey beekeepers, it’s perfectly normal. By: James E. Tew Beekeepers slowly grow to accept the obvious If you read any bee book, beekeeping is…
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Bees and Women
Nina Bagley Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper was a complex and cunning woman beekeeper in the 1800’s that all beekeepers should know. She was born…
Read MoreFrom Alaska to Scotland: in Search of History, Honey Bees and Sustainability
Lisa Hay Recently I traveled to Scotland with my son in order to spend some quality time with him and to introduce him to…
Read MoreSalivating Over Salvia
Alyssum Flowers Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the sage family (the mints, Family Laminaceae) with over 1000 species of annuals, perennials…
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Bee Vet
A Surgical Approach Dr. Tracy Farone Did you ever have a moment within the crazy pace of life where you suddenly stopped, looked around…
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Bulk Raw Honey Prices Analyst Project all time Highs
Brady Doran, Mann Lake For the past few years, U.S. honey prices have been retracting. Honey imported from a variety of sources has been…
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No Time for Fishing Ed Colby Doctors keep quitting on me. Two retired, one took an administrative position, another moved to India. Yet another…
Read MoreCattleman Includes Honey Business
James Howard In the flatlands of South Georgia, honey flows rich and golden. One man takes his heritage of farming and blends it with…
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Thinking Outside the Bee Box:
Unusual Ways to Turn a Profit Stephen Bishop Life is full of little ironies. Last year I was on a podcast—and get this, the…
Read MoreThe Darby Bee Escape: Simple, Cheap and Effective
Peter Sieling In the early twentieth century, J.E. Crane wrote a series of articles in Gleanings in Bee Culture on his experiences as an…
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Honey Bees Join Humans as the Only Known Animals that can Tell the Difference Between Odd and Even Numbers
Scarlett Howard & Adrian Dyer & Andrew Greentree & Jair Garcia “Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don’t wait.” As children, we learn numbers…
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The Times They Are A Changing
John Miller A trend is underway in manufacturing and transportation. Seems we are convulsed with trend changes, abrupt and sometimes shocking. This one is…
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Book Review
Mark Winston The recent full-on Russian invasion has focused and heightened attention on Ukraine and distinctive aspects of its culture, among other things bringing…
Read MoreOff the Wahl Beekeeping
Queen Rearing Richard Wahl In the April 2022 issue, I spoke about increasing your hive count and made the assumption that any splits with…
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A Closer Look
Division of Labor Individual workers perform different tasks at different ages Clarence Collison Colony life is organized by a complex and sophisticated division of…
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