
Life, Death and Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon
By: National Geographic Explorers Rosa Vásquez Espinoza and Ana Elisa Sotelo For centuries, communities in the Peruvian Amazon foraged for the hives of Amazonian…
Read MoreBy: National Geographic Explorers Rosa Vásquez Espinoza and Ana Elisa Sotelo For centuries, communities in the Peruvian Amazon foraged for the hives of Amazonian…
Read MoreCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban In the first years of the 21st century, my husband and I hired a carpenter-friend, John McCabe, to work on our 1855…
Read MoreAllen Hayes, EAS Master Beekeeper Does your state have enough qualified honey show judges? Are the same people asked to judge year after year?…
Read MoreRosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
Read MoreAlice Eckles Everyone was baking. Flour was flying off the shelves. People who never baked a loaf of bread in their lives decided that…
Read MoreStephen Bishop For anyone looking for prime advertising space, boy have I got a deal for you. Last night, while I was driving home…
Read MoreKim Flottum Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Third Edition. Dewey M. Caron and Lawrence John Connor. Published by Wicwas Press LLC, Kalamazoo, MI 49001….
Read MorePrepper Nation Jessica Lawrence I am so tired of politics. What was once a (mostly) mildly disagreeable topic that could be discussed with some…
Read MoreThe Diagnosis of the Shrew Dr. Tracy Farone One thing about beekeeping is it always provides an opportunity to learn something new. It definitely…
Read MoreHoney Bee Environmental Monitoring Clarence Collison Human Activities Produce Contaminants Human activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s…
Read MoreJohn Miller Science is hard. The beekeeping industry doesn’t fund a lot of bee research science. We do some very good science – but…
Read MoreAll My Fault Ed Colby It’s a snowy 3 a.m. on May 4 here in western Colorado. Can’t sleep. My head is filled with…
Read MoreDo Bees Feel Sick? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab In our own species, disease can be swift and devastating. In the U.S. alone,…
Read MorePlacing A Hive and How Many Richard Wahl Siting a Hive: Hive placement can be one of the first critical considerations if you are…
Read MoreBy: Chris Hiatt, AHPA On May 9, 2022, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) voted unanimously that U.S. beekeepers producing raw honey were…
Read MoreDavid MacFawn There are multiple ways to increase colonies and control swarming. Splitting colonies is one method to help the beekeeper. Walk-away splits (where…
Read MoreA novel experience that only adds to my indecision James E. Tew Any time and no time Any time and no time are both…
Read MoreHow to Start Greg Carey Forewarned is forearmed. When I first started thinking of keeping bees, I did not know that “all the bees…
Read MoreSienna Malik Beekeepers needn’t be told about the importance of bees as pollinators, or about the threats to the global economy and food security…
Read MoreFrom the Editor, Jerry Hayes VARROA CONTROL QUESTION Thank you for your Zoom presentation to the Maine Beekeepers Association. I was going to write…
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