Category: Authors
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Directional Discourse
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Directional Discourse By: Stephen Bishop Not to brag, but I may be one of the only humans on Planet Earth capable of admitting my inability to navigate in the right direction. Yep, I’m…
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Wax Moths and Honey Bees
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Old Combative Relationship By: James E. Tew At First Glance… Our old frenemy, the wax moth, is clearly a pest to both beekeepers and their bees. But for just a moment, consider…
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Recommended Control Options By Seasonal Phase
STUDY HALL From the Editor, Jerry Hayes As I promised, here is all of the information available from the Tools for Varroa Management Guide on Varroa control. It gives you multiple options. And as I have said before, if you have sampled your colonies based on sampling directions in last month’s Study Hall and you…
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Milkweeds Are Not Just For Monarchs
By: Alyssum Flowers Although milkweed has often been considered a weed, and to farmers, an annoying nuisance, it has recently enjoyed new respect and attention due to our desire to “save the Monarch Butterfly”. The Common name of Milkweed is derived from the milky sap in the stem which contains cardiac glycosides – toxins that…
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Commercial Beekeeping Is Stormy
By: John Miller Beekeeping is stormy. A beekeeper is justified fretting over myriad threats big and small. I have (finally) learned: There is no point fretting over the weather. It took a long time to stop fretting over uncontrollable matters (I still have lapses). It does not matter how hard we stare at the radar.…
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A Beekeeper’s Primer
For Integrated Pest Management By: Edward Hsieh and Adam Dolezal The term “pest control” frequently conjures up images of masked exterminators dispensing poisonous chemicals from sprayer wands a la Dale Gribble from the TV series King of the Hill or crop-dusters dropping pesticides overhead. Combined with other depictions of pesticides, this seems to lead people…
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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! Nature, Nurture and Varroa Resistance By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Western honey bees were hygienic long before the scourge of Varroa mites, or really any known mite pressures. It is literally…
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A Tough Crowd
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 Somewhere in the crevices of my brain, I have repressed the memories of my college public speaking class, which for extreme introverts like me is a class that ought to…