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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The Layens Hive
By: Leo Sharashkin Using Local bees, And An Appropriate Hive.Unconventional? Perhaps. “Keeping bees requires little effort, and barely any capital to get started,” wrote…
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Just Mite Work!
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden We live in the foothills of the Cascades in western Washington, northeast of Seattle. While we’re not technically in…
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March Report
Where Do They Sell Their Honey? What do people sell, and where do they sell it. When it comes to honey, there’s a predictable…
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Bee Pollen- An Overview
By: Ross Conrad Bee Pollen: Implications for Human Health Last month we looked at bee pollen: what it is; how it is collected by…
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HOLLY BEE
By: Kurt Knebusch and Paul Snyder Plant these for bees, and the holidays this year. Here’s seven hollies that can take it when…
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A “NET GAIN” CELL BUILDING SYSTEM
By: Joe Latshaw Not how big, but how small can a cell building colony be and still do a good job? Queen rearing is…
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