Minding Your Bees and Cues
Wasp Do You Know? Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel With Winter approaching, your bees need less attention. Why not spend time learning about the…
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No Accounting For Taste Ed Colby I thought I’d been bee-stung about everywhere a man can get stung. Then one sweltering day this Summer…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bee Navigation, Learning and Memory A Bee Has to Learn Color and Shape of Flowers Clarence Collison “Foraging is essential to a honey…
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Study Hall
From the Editor RNAi For Varroa Control Q – After reading the item from GreenLight in your August issue, I’ve tried to find more…
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A Closer Look
Comb Construction and Cell Capping Clarence Collison Significant Chemical And Physical Changes Occur In The Wax During Comb Building “Wax secretion is age-related, varies…
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Shana Archibald BROWN SUGAR & HONEY BACON 1 lb. bacon 2 c. brown sugar + additional ~1 c. 1 tbsp. red pepper flakes Honey…
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Fall Planning Dr. Tracy Farone “Fall Planning” Tomorrow the calendar will say “July” and many beekeepers are focusing on Spring extraction. It is easy…
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Dog Days Ed Colby It’s early July as I write, and hot enough to make a beekeeper cry for mercy. Our western Colorado highs…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Powering Your Bee With Flowers Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel What bees really need are more flowers. Seems easy enough, but like achieving world…
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It’s Summers Time –
Looking At Numbers And Saying Good-bye Kathy Summers So because of COVID and just in general being short-handed in our Publications department for the…
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Lots Happening In Medina It’s been busy here in Medina so far this Summer – at home, at work and just in general. First…
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Good Help Can Be Found Dr. Tracy Farone On a rare day off in mid-May, I went fishing with my family, ironically at Slippery…
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Aristotle And Bees Ed Colby My bee-hauling rig is a 1983 converted E350 Ford van. A former owner cut out the middle of this…
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Social Thoughts Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Honey bees, like other social insects, think both for themselves and for their colonies. All animals…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Genetic Diversification and Tracking Results Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel So you’re a new beekeeper and need to purchase a new queen (Who squashed…
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A Closer Look
Taste Perception Honey Bee Chemosensory Organs Clarence Collison “Taste is crucial for honey bees for choosing profitable food sources, resins, water sources, and for…
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Cooking with Honey
By: Shana Archibald This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years HONEY CHOCOLATE COOKIES 2½ C of…
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By: Tracy Farone, DVM This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years This semester I have been…
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It’s Summers Time – January, Travel and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
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INNERCOVER
By : Kim Flottum I’ve been attending one or the other, and sometimes but rarely both, of the National meetings in January almost every…
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