Category: Articles
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The Autumn Illusion: Why Healthy Looking Colonies Can Still Collapse
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 Fall is a season that allows beekeepers to take a breath. For most beekeepers, we’ve harvested our honey and treated for mites (again) and have equalized our hives by combining…
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Winter Losses
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Winter colony losses: I regularly come across statements that claim the most serious problem beekeepers face is the Varroa mite. With about a dozen approved acaricides available to U.S. beekeepers,…
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The Auburn Series
How the Auburn University Bee Center is Thinking About Tropilaelaps vs. Varroa Mites By: Dan Aurell (Click on images to enlarge) Basics It is easy to marvel at the abilities of the bees we work with. We admire their ability to build comb to tight specifications, their ability to remember and communicate the location of…
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Spotlight on Nutrition
A Complete Diet for Bees By Anne Marie Fauvel, Honey Bee Vitality, LLC & Dr. Brandon Hopkins,Washington State University (Click on photos to enlarge) Key takeaway A recently published scientific paper describes an encouraging pollen replacing diet. However, there is more to the story as this diet has been tested extensively in a variety of…
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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! What is HBVC?By: Dr. Tracy Farone (Click on photos to enlarge) This month, I will be fulfilling a request to feature an organization that I have been a part of since late 2019. The Honey Bee…
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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 1By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Bee Venom If the rose is symbolic of beauty and suffering, the honey bee doubles down by delivering extreme sweetness and pain. If…
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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! Found in Translation Diverse Bouquets By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab (Click on photos to enlarge) I recently wrote about new work showing how honey bees recruit nestmates to different flower patches…
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Five-Minute Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! For Those Short Times When You Need a Quick Bee Fix By: James E. Tew (Click on photos to enlarge) The concept The genesis for this article occurred about twenty-five years ago. At…