Category: Authors
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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 Communications Within the Colony By: Richard Wahl Methods of CommunicationAs the new beekeeper’s skills improve they will begin to note the ways in which bees use scents, bee dance movements…
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The Brave New World of Beekeeping Created By Our Climate Emergency 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! A sober look at some of the ways the unsustainable use of fossil fuels is damaging our industry By: Ross Conrad (Click on photos to enlarge) The climate crisis is rapidly changing our…
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And Yet a Few (More) Comments on Honey Bee Swarm Biology and Management (Part 2)
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! The Swarm in Transition to a ColonyBy: James E. Tew In the hive In the April 2025 issue of Bee Culture, I spent my article space discussing some aspects of elementary swarm biology of honey bees…
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Part 3 – Take the Temperature of Your Colony
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Varroa Treatments By: Theresa J. Martin I begin by clarifying that BroodMinder does not compensate me in any way for my statements about its product. What I write is my uninfluenced opinion based…
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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! What’s Your Diagnosis?By: Tracy Farone (Click on photos to enlarge) Many things can kill honey bee colonies and often times “the” cause is multiple stressors occurring at the same time or accumulating over time. “What is…
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2024 Saskatchewan Beekeepers Development Commission Convention
By: Sarah Wood 1. Obshta, O., Raza, M.F., Enadeghe, R., Edirithilake, T.L.K, Janser, M., Jose, M.S., Woodrow, H., Tellarini Prieto, E.E., Bezerra da Silva, M.C., Camilli, M.P., Lopes Neto, B., Tregobov, J., Moshynskyy, I., Simko, E. Wood, S. (2024). Surveillance of AFB in Saskatchewan and worldwide. Oral presentation, Saskatchewan Beekeepers Development Commission Annual Convention, Saskatoon,…
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Colony Loss Survey
Annual U.S. Colony Losses Hit Record High Over Winter of 2024-2025 By Ross Conrad These words are being written at the end of February, but by the time you read this, chances are you have already come across alarming headlines of recent massive U.S. honey bee losses. Results from a Project Apis m (PAm) survey…
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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! The Man Who Gave Up Beekeeping (or Did He?) By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Do you remember your first introduction to beekeeping like it was yesterday? You were on Summer break from…