The Elusive Varroa Resistant European Honey Bee
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The Best Tasting Honey in the World
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Winter Insulation Revisited
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News Notes
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To Insulate or Not To Insulate
How important is hive insulation really? By: Ross Conrad This is the time of year when beekeepers throughout North America start preparing their colonies…
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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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The Reliability of Science – Part 2
Ross Conrad We beekeepers put a lot of faith in science, but that faith isn’t always well placed. Last month we looked at the…
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The Reliability of Science – Part 1
The Reliability of Science – Part 1 By: Ross Conrad We have all come to rely on science. It is responsible for most of…
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Electromagnetic Radiation – Part 2
And Honey Bee Health – Part 2 By: Ross Conrad In the February edition of Bee Culture we looked at some of the scientific…
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Electromagnetic Radiation – Part 1
And Honey Bee Health – Part 1 By: Ross Conrad The potential for harmful impacts from electromagnetic radiation to bees first came into the…
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20 Celebrity Beekeepers
Ross Conrad Beekeeping is a quirky profession, full of characters and interesting people. The beekeeping community is also relatively small and that may be…
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An Interview with James T. Key
Ross Conrad While there are African American beekeepers in the United States, generally speaking with a few notable exceptions (such as the city of…
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Epipen
The EpiPen pricing scandal: A symptom of the legalized corruption embedded within the only profit oriented health care system that still exists in any…
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Varroa Population Dynamics
All Beekeeping Is Local Ross Conrad Last month we reviewed the results of a trial comparing treatment-free cultural controls with a commercially approved acaricide…
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Comparison Of Treatment-Free Cultural Controls With Formic Acid Varroa Mite (Varroa destructor) Treatments In Managed Apis mellifera Colonies
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Ross Conrad ABSTRACT The parasitic mite, Varroa destructor is the most widespread pest of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera. This mite reproduces in…
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Why Keep on Keeping Bees? Here Are 17 Reasons…
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years I am not going to sugar…
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What Not to Worry About During Your First Year Beekeeping
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Beekeeping has gotten complicated: Feeding, mites,…
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A Difference of Opinion
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Early in American history it was…
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Spring Feeding
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The end of Winter and early…
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