Category: Articles
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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! Some Don’t Like it Hot By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Despite a surprisingly long Summer and Fall, I am sure that by February we in the North will be hoping for…
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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! Confessions of Upper Winter Entrance Beekeepers By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel We never thought our wintering methods were scandalous, let alone distressing, but here we are. Our low R factor cardboard boxes,…
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Fewer Bees and Other Pollinating Insects Lead to Shrinking Crops
This article was originally published in The Conversation By: Rachel Mallinger Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in the U.S., due in part to pesticides, climate change, invasive plants and diminished habitats.…
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Career Change and Honey Bees
By: David Burns I want to share my story about how honey bees created a career change and total life change for me…for the better. My early life wasn’t too much different than most people. I got married, went to college, graduated, pursued a career and had a family. As a young man I started…
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The UC Davis Series
Apivectoring Technology and a Heartfelt Thank You! By: Elina L. Niño As the UC Davis series comes to a close I wanted to devote this short and sweet final article to a fun topic that I didn’t get a chance to talk about, but which still very much holds my interest: Apivectoring! This simply means…
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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! My Beekeeping Story By: Richard Whal Preface Most of my articles in the past three years have been based on my experiences and adjustments as a beginner and were aimed at helping the…
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Boy vs. Brainpower
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 The streams have crossed. For once in the last month, my ability to generate enough mental brainpower to write has exceeded my son’s ability to mentally exhaust me. Four-year-old boys…
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Pesticide Residue Testing
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Laboratory Protocols Help Cover Up Chemical Contamination in Bee Hives By: Ross Conrad A funny thing happens sometimes when I sit down to write an article. I start by gathering a bunch of…