Tammy Horn Potter
By: Barbara Gillette Kentucky State Apiarist and author Dr. Tammy Horn Potter blazed a trail across literary and beekeeping circles in 2005 with the…
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Bottom Board- Dave Goulson
By: Ed Colby One of Britain’s foremost conservationists, University of Sussex Professor Dave Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that promotes bumblebees….
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Mark Bennett From The Chatham, VA Dadant Branch
By: Jessica Louque I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mark Bennett for years. Mark is the branch manager of the Chatham Dadant in…
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Meet David Tarpy
By: Ann Harman Today David Tarpy is well known in the honey bee world. He was interested in science as a youth but his…
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Buzz & Nancy Riopelle
By: Kim Flottum Buzz Riopelle is the first beekeeper I got to know when I moved to Medina for my job here. The Medina…
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Sam Comfort
By: Ross Conrad Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries is on a mission – two missions to be precise: Make more hives than televisions, and…
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Bear Kelley
By: Jennifer Berry Growing up, some of us wanted to be rich while some of us wanted to be famous. Some of us wanted…
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Jake Reisdorf
By: Dennis Taylor His plan is to save mankind! In their dreams, most middle schoolers envision themselves pitching for the Cubs, or crooning their…
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SCIENTIFICBEEKEEPING
By: Kim Kaplan An interview with Randy Oliver Randy Oliver is the owner of Golden West Bees in northern California – about 1,000 colonies providing…
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Dr. Elina Niño California’s New Extension Specialist
by Larry Connor The University of California, Department of Entomology at Davis, has a new entomologist on staff covering extension and research in…
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In Memoriam
Eric H. Erickson Jr. 1940 – 2016 Dr. Eric Erickson died April 13, 2016, 13 days shy of his 76th birthday. He is…
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West Virginia Veterans & Warriors
Jack Blackford Walking out to what was about to become a new apiary, I spotted a mixed bunch of folks listening to one of…
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Bigger Picture: Travel Notes
by Jessica Louque Bobby and I have had quite a lot of travel over the last few years in the bees. We have driven…
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An Interview With Dan Conlon At Warm Colors Apiary
by Larry Connor This is an interview with Western-Massachusetts commercial beekeeper Dan Conlon, who works with his wife Bonita to run Warm Colors Apiary….
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Gene Robinson
By Jerry Hayes The world of Honey Bees, even though small in comparison to other hobbies or businesses, is full of humans who have…
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Keith Delaplane
by Jennifer Berry It’s interesting how things work out. How one minute your life is heading down a certain path, then the next it…
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Champlain Valley Apiaries
Three Generations of Beekeeping by Ross Conrad The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Charles Mraz (1905-1999) kept bees in Woodside, Queens, an enclave of Czech…
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Tom Seeley
by Ann Harman You have read his books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1996), and Honeybee Democracy (2010). You have attended…
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Stuart Anderson: Co-Inventor of the Flow Hive
by Toni Burnham If you are a beekeeper in North America, and you have a connection to the Internet (or anyone you know has…
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Bigger Picture: Don Hopkins, NCDA Chief Apiary Inspector
by Jessica Louque As an apiary inspector for North Carolina, Don Hopkins normally needs to be notified when you bring in bee packages from…
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