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
Ross Conrad The chart and table below were inadvertently left out of Ross Conrad’s article in our September issue. We apologize to Ross and…
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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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Preparing Honey For Market
Honey Processing Ross Conrad When it comes to processing honey, beekeepers have it relatively easy. The bees do the lion’s share of the work….
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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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Harvesting Honey & Old Comb
By: Ross Conrad This article appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years When is the best time to harvest…
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Nectar Flow: Be Ready!
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years And We All Know What May…
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Honey Harvest: Early or Later
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years When is the right time for…
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More on Spring
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years If you’re using nucs, you have…
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Let’s Make Candles
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Candle Making When thinking of products…
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Honey Bee Packages
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Honey Bee Packages The majority of…
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Beeswax
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years A colony of honey bees tends…
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Colony Robbers: When Good Bees Go Bad
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Honey bee workers normally forage for…
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Deeps, Mediums, Shallows
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Decisions, Decisions, Decisions In the old…
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Bermuda: Bees or Bust
by Ross Conrad One of the benefits of having written a book on beekeeping is I occasionally get invited as a presenter to speak…
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Flow Hive
by Ross Conrad Stewart and Cedar Anderson of Byron Bay, Australia have made history and are fast becoming legendary. The father and son team…
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Need A Beekeeping Mentor? Why Not Ask The Bees
Ross Conrad Many indigenous cultures around the world believe that everything in the natural world has something to teach us if we are open…
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