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 Winter Fit It Tips By: Richard Wahl (Click on photos to enlarge) Winter Doldrums Winter is a time when active interaction with our bees really slows down or even comes…
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HBB
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Dr. Tracy Farone (Click on photos to enlarge) In medicine and many other professions, common situations, phrases, and jargon are commonly abbreviated to make record keeping and communication between professionals, faster and…
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Dream Jobs
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 thoughtful consideration, I think I’ve discovered my new dream job. No, it’s not full-time beekeeping (that was my old dream job, then I became a sideline beekeeper and realized…
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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…