Category: Articles
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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! Divide and Prosper By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel When it comes to doing Spring divides, beekeepers are divided. We were raised with Spring splits as a beekeeping rule, not a management exception.…
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Carolina On My Mind
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 I have divided allegiances. I’ve spent most of my life living within fifteen minutes of the North Carolina/South Carolina line. I lived on the northern side, while my grandparents lived…
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Escaping the Virion?
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! By: Tracy Farone (Click on images to enlarge) As we trod through the end of Winter season into March, we see hopes of Spring in the occasional warm day, allowing us to get outside and get…
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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 Frame Manipulations By: Richard Wahl From Supers to Frames In last month’s article I wrote about reversing brood supers, when to add honey supers, feeding options and some generalized inspection…
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PFAS and Bees
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Forever Chemicals: An Endless Threat to Honey Bees (and their keepers) By: Ross Conrad It has never been so hard to keep bees alive as it is today. Many of us even measure…
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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! Bite, or at Least Fight, the Mite By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Hope springs eternal and now is a good time for beekeepers to enact positive changes for the genetics of…
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Learning From Neil Specht, Successful Canadian Beekeeper
By: Neil Specht & Jerry Hayes (Click on images to enlarge) I have known successful commercial Canadian Beekeeper Neil Specht, since we were both young and good looking. Neil has always impressed me with his openness to learn, discuss and disagree nicely in order to get to a logical and meaningful answer. I was honored…
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Bobbing For Piranha
By: John Miller In recent editions, I’ve been vocal – alarmed – distressed by the Tropigeddon calamity. I’ve tub-thumped the subject, loud and long. I hope I’m wrong; very wrong. The top-line in early December was the annual colony loss report – for the first time, colony mortality in America exceeded 50% annually. 50% of…