Category: Minding Your Bees and Cues
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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! How to Bribe a Honey Bee By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel About 100 million years ago, plants had a Lightbulb Moment – or more like Era. They were like, what if we…
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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! The Man Who Gave Up Beekeeping (or Did He?) By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Do you remember your first introduction to beekeeping like it was yesterday? You were on Summer break from…
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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! Eggcitement By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Between the skyrocketing price of chicken eggs, the Resurrection and magical bunnies, eggs keep popping up in our newsfeed, so it is a good time for…
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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! Divide and Prosper By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel When it comes to doing Spring divides, beekeepers are divided. We were raised with Spring splits as a beekeeping rule, not a management exception.…
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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! Promote Beekeeping By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel About a year ago, we shared a bit of a rant. In our Defend Beekeeping article, we named names and challenged beekeepers to defend beekeeping.…
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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! Confessions of Upper Winter Entrance Beekeepers By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel We never thought our wintering methods were scandalous, let alone distressing, but here we are. Our low R factor cardboard boxes,…
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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! Be Careful What You’re Good At By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel For this month’s interview piece, we decided to reach out to Brooke Nikkila. She recently became Wisconsin’s Apiary Program Coordinator &…
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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! A Survey of Newsworthy Bees By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel This year bees in the news got off to a dramatic start1 with unprecedentedly high rates of bee theft during almond pollination…