Category: Authors
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The Mind of the Honey Bee
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Intelligence Isn’t Strictly a Human Characteristic By: Ross Conrad Vertebrates are considered to be group of organisms that are among the most advanced beings on earth. Mammals which generally have larger brains compared…
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Old Queens and Old Frames
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 Beekeeper’s Thoughts By: James E. Tew September Requeening For most beekeepers, September is the last gasp time for requeening a colony. That late in the season, the replacement queens have probably…
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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…
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A Fun Bee Removal
By: Ettamarie Peterson The call came from a contractor who had been hired to refurbish a very old barn up on our little Sonoma Mountain not far from where I live. He told me the barn was over a hundred years old and the owner wanted it to be around for another hundred years. His…
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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! Counting Bees By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel How Many Bees? What impresses non-beekeepers the most about a colony of bees is the sheer number of bees. Six hundred thousand bees does drop…
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Old Broken Things
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 Opposites attract. My wife and I are verified proof of that. Look no further than our cleaning habits. As a child, I learned early on that shoving toys under the…
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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! Egg Sizing By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab James Tew gave a great review of The Quiet, Quick Life of the Honey Bee Egg in the May 2024 issue of Bee Culture.…