Oh, Bear; don’t despair
Zack Comeaux It wasn’t what I expected to see; I sort of went into shock. Toppled boxes and scattered frames. I had just expected…
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Minding Your Bees And Cues
Robbing the Honey Bank Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Honey bee management inspection protocols change throughout the season and beekeepers need to look to…
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Herbal medicine for bees? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Bees have been reliant on plants, and vice versa, for tens of millions of…
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The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Bee
Ross Conrad The Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) has been in the news in recent years having made landfall in North America in late…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
The Merchant of Honey By: Becky Masterman and Bridget Mendel Somewhere in Minnesota, in the biggest shopping mall in America, there is a small…
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Curing an MRSA Infection with Direct Application of Local Honey
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban In the first years of the 21st century, my husband and I hired a carpenter-friend, John McCabe, to work on our 1855…
Read MoreMaryland Holds a Honey Show Judging Class
Allen Hayes, EAS Master Beekeeper Does your state have enough qualified honey show judges? Are the same people asked to judge year after year?…
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Rosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
Read MoreHoney is Baked in Comfort food
Alice Eckles Everyone was baking. Flour was flying off the shelves. People who never baked a loaf of bread in their lives decided that…
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Your Ad Deer, Inc.
Stephen Bishop For anyone looking for prime advertising space, boy have I got a deal for you. Last night, while I was driving home…
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Book Reviews
Kim Flottum Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Third Edition. Dewey M. Caron and Lawrence John Connor. Published by Wicwas Press LLC, Kalamazoo, MI 49001….
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Prepper Nation Jessica Lawrence I am so tired of politics. What was once a (mostly) mildly disagreeable topic that could be discussed with some…
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Bee Vet
The Diagnosis of the Shrew Dr. Tracy Farone One thing about beekeeping is it always provides an opportunity to learn something new. It definitely…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bee Environmental Monitoring Clarence Collison Human Activities Produce Contaminants Human activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s…
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John Miller Science is hard. The beekeeping industry doesn’t fund a lot of bee research science. We do some very good science – but…
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All My Fault Ed Colby It’s a snowy 3 a.m. on May 4 here in western Colorado. Can’t sleep. My head is filled with…
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Do Bees Feel Sick? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab In our own species, disease can be swift and devastating. In the U.S. alone,…
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Placing A Hive and How Many Richard Wahl Siting a Hive: Hive placement can be one of the first critical considerations if you are…
Read MoreSplitting Colonies: Second Edition
David MacFawn There are multiple ways to increase colonies and control swarming. Splitting colonies is one method to help the beekeeper. Walk-away splits (where…
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A novel experience that only adds to my indecision James E. Tew Any time and no time Any time and no time are both…
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