Category: Audio
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Some Common Hive Entrance Bee Activities
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! It is enjoyable and easy By: James E. Tew A handy colony inspection procedure Through the years, as I have increasingly become an older beekeeper, I have grown in my support of the…
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To Bravely Run Away
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 My dad is not a beekeeper, but that has never precluded him from odd behavior. One of my earliest memories is of my dad trapping a honey bee under a…
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No Honey Needed
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 After a few years of writing a monthly humor article for a beekeeping magazine, you begin to exhaust your ability to generate material, and you have to rent a heavy-duty…
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The Quiet, Quick Life of the Honey Bee Egg
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! The critical, but unassuming development stageBy: James E. Tew The quiet beginning The beginning stage of a honey bee’s life is the smallest and quietest of any of the four developmental stages –…
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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! Nature’s Timing By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Phenology is the scientific study of when things happen. When fruit trees bloom, when drones first appear in the colony, when basswood or black locust…
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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 Feeding Your Bees By: Richard Wahl Background For the past two years I have been a partner mentor with four or five other beekeepers that have provided on-site, hands-on instruction…
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Do I Have a Future in Beekeeping?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A fifty-year reflectionBy: James E. Tew Your present perception of beekeeping is only a snapshot in time Beekeeping today is not beekeeping past or future beekeeping. Apiculture as we know it is simply…