Category: Articles
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
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 Observations at the Hive Entrance By: Richard Wahl (Click on images to enlarge) The Asset of a Close Location Observing bees at the entrance of a hive can reveal a…
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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! Surveying the SurveysBy: Tracy Farone Many of my pre-health professions and pre-graduate students must take a statistics course in order to graduate, whether they like it or not. Navigating the commonly quoted “lies, damn lies, and…
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2025 ABRC Proceedings
Part 1 https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.5.25.1 The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) is an organization consisting of professors, state apiarists, scientists and students who all study and work with honey bees (Apis mellifera). The goals of the AAPA focus on three major areas: 1) promoting communication within and between industry, academia, and the beekeeping community; 2) developing…
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Supering
The Art and Science of Supering By: Ross Conrad Of all the creatures on earth, the honey bee is the only one (other than humans) that will take a lot more than it needs from the world around them. Their hoarding instinct is so strong that as long as there is room in their hive…
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Beekeeper Story
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Dr. Gina Calvo Sandor Hi, I am Dr. Gina Calvo Sandor, DVM, Cheatham County Animal Clinic, Ashland City, TN. In high school, I was taught about 2 different versions of heroes. There was the typical protagonist,…
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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! Eggcitement By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Between the skyrocketing price of chicken eggs, the Resurrection and magical bunnies, eggs keep popping up in our newsfeed, so it is a good time for…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
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 Interests in Beekeeping (Where to Begin) By: Richard Wahl (Click on photos to enlarge) Some Interest or (The Just Curious) It seems to me that there are three levels of…
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General Honey Bee Swarm Biology and Management (Part 1)
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Overview of a Typical Honey Bee Swarm EpisodeBy: James E. Tew The Springtime event The general story is that a colony – probably headed by queen that is more than one year…