It’s Hive Inspection Day With Your Mentee!
By: Ann Harman Every student of the beginning beekeeper classes of the East Cupcake Beekeepers Association is assigned a mentor. In order to help…
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MAKING INCREASE
A Comparison Of Different Methods Of Obtaining Honey Bees By: Patrick Dwyer Making increase is a fundamental activity of beekeeping whether one is a…
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Bottom Board
By Ed Colby Galveston Paul and I depart in the teeth of a snowstorm. Over Vail Pass, up the long hill to the Eisenhower…
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Searching For Pollen In Honey
By: Vaughn Bryant, Texas A&M It’s Not As Easy As You Think! “Hello, Dr. Bryant could I visit your lab this weekend and learn how…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Talking and writing about bees – modern beekeeping minefields, and comments on dealing with old frames. Talking and writing about bees –…
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Royal Jelly- A worker bee produced, protein rich, mother’s milk
By: Stephanie Bruneau Did anyone ever tell you ‘you are what you eat’? There is no creature for which this is more true than…
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Blue Blossoms For Honey Bees
By: Janet Davis There’s something about shimmering blue flowers that fascinates gardeners – in fact some love them so much that they devote a…
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One Hundred Years Down A Breeding Rabbit Hole
By: Bob Brachmann Over the last 33 years, starting with the discovery of tracheal mites in the U.S., there’ve been many new challenges to honey…
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April Regional Honey Price Report
Winter So Far . . . Honey prices keep coming up in discussions, so we took a look at January vs. April prices on…
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Mountain States Foraging
By: Connie Krochmal This month we’ll take a look at another volume in the Timber Press series on foraging – “Mountain States Foraging – 115…
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Sugar For Bees
By: Ann Harman To feed or not to feed… (My apologies to Will S.) We want our honey bees to survive and live a good…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James E. Tew This month can we just talk? Today is dark, cool, and raining. Good time for conversation. In this article, can…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby A Road Trip Last Fall on my gal Marilyn’s birthday trip to Cortez, Colorado, we visited the Pueblo cliff dwellings in…
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Reframing
Finding a Better Way to Fix Frames By: D.E. Bentley The frames, strung up between trees on clothesline, looked like an art installation with…
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Get Your Bait Hives Ready!
By: Morris Ostrofsky Recently I was corresponding with a German friend for whom English is a second language about bait boxes. It seems that…
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Swarm Instinct
By: Barbara Gillette On a late sunny afternoon in early August, intuition calls me out to my small apiary of three hives. I checked my…
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The Spin Around Queen
By: Billy Davis The Sustainable Honeybee Program (SHP) had its origin with a queen-rearing project back in the late 1990s. A location in rural…
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Building Community By Killing Varroa
By: Toni Burnham Losing Too Many Hives Here’s an admission: I have been complaining a lot about urban beekeeping lately. For my first six years,…
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Young Harris Institute
By: Jennifer Berry It’s amazing how many meetings and workshops one could attend around the county, state, or country. This week alone at only one…
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Flower Power
The Physics Of Pollination By: Marie Davey Pollination. The word brings to mind the droning buzz of fat yellow and black bumblebees bouncing from…
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