Category: Articles
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Bee Vet
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! More SOAPing By: Tracy Farone In the June 2025 episode of Bee Vet, I introduced readers to the concept of “SOAPing”. To refresh your memory, here is a review. The acronym “SOAP” is used in medicine…
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Does Beekeeping Have to Be So Frustrating?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Anyone who thinks beekeeping isn’t hard hasn’t kept bees very long. From the outside — or through the eyes of a brand-new beekeeper — it looks peaceful, relaxing, maybe even…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Tropilaelaps and Co. By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much has been written about Tropilaelaps mites and their impacts on honey bees both in their native range and, following recent hops, in…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! This Might Sting, Part 2 By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Bee Venom We promised to investigate the benefits of bee venom for you. Humans have known that the sting of a honey…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Harvesting Honey By: Richard Wahl Honey The primary reason individuals get into the hobby of beekeeping is to at some point be able to collect honey. Although there are those…
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Bees in High Places
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Another swing, another miss. This was supposed to be the year, the year I put everything together. My production hives made it through Winter in great shape. In the fifteen…
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Hidden Beehives
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew (Click on the photos to enlarge them) Nary a hive I just returned from a two-thousand-mile road trip to visit my two brothers and be introduced to some brand-new…
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Winter is Coming
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Warm and Snug Beats Cold and Drafty By: Theresa J. Martin (Click on photos to enlarge) Bees evolved to live in a thick-walled, well-insulated, stuffy, humid tree cavity with a single, small 2-square-inch…