Easy Hive Monitoring
By: Phil Craft With all the challenges facing honey bees and beekeepers today, Varroa mites are still the greatest threat. Last month, in my…
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Meghan By: Ed Colby I like to say I’m retired, but I’ve never been busier. A hundred and fifty colonies keep me occupied. That,…
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TAKE YOUR CLUB TO THE NEXT LEVEL
By: Tina Sebestyen February, it seems like spring will never arrive. In an effort to escape darkest Winter, we bring out our seed catalogs,…
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MAKE A SUPPORT SYSTEM IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
By: Ettamarie Peterson Recently I got a packet of thank you letters from a third grade class that I had visited to educate them…
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By: Ed Colby Getting Ready Last November down by the Colorado River, Paul and the boys stacked four-way pallets of bees three high. Semis…
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Meet Derrick
By: Ed Colby At the turn of the century, Derrick Maness and I worked together for Colorado commercial beekeeper Paul Limbach. Derrick still does….
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Keeping Venom Out of Your Bee Club
By: Becky Johnson By Involving All Members In The Good And The Bad, Listening To Concerns And Forever Adapting To New Ideas And Ways,…
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Hands On Mentoring After The Classes There’s Very Little Formal Education For New Beekeepers
By: Buddy May Dedicated mentoring of the new and inexperienced beekeeper is perhaps the single most important aspect of successful management in beekeeping. I…
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BEESPEAKER There are lots of things you can do to make sure this works.
By: Frank Mortimer, Jr. As president of the Northeast NJ Beekeepers Association, I am actively engaged in educating the general public about the importance…
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Midwest Master Beekeepers
By: Moneen Jones The MO Master Beekeeper Certification Program is now the Midwest Master Beekeeper Certification program thanks to a collaboration with the Missouri Conservation…
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Fire In The Belly We went to Scottsbluff, Nebraska for the eclipse. Scottsbluff’s prettier than you think. An entrepreneurial farm family rented us a…
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Neonicotinoid Pesticides: A Major Problem For Bees, Part I
By: Ross Conrad The often heard refrain that Varroa is the primary cause of colony losses associated with CCD is simply not supported by…
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By: Ed Colby A Tale From The Dark Side Waiting for the gal Marilyn while she got a massage, I struck up a conversation…
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Autumn Thoughts
By: Ross Conrad Fences, honey and queens. Electric Fence Considerations According to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, the black bear population in the state…
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The Voices of Bee Culture
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By: Ed Colby The Good Samaritan The pot grower down the road told me his bees are doing fabulous. I asked him how his mites…
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Beekeeping In Costa Rica Pura Vida – It’s All Good
By: Sarah Gabric Everywhere you might go in Costa Rica, from the capital city of San Jose, to a remote barrio, to a tourist…
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The Voices of Bee Culture
SEPTEMBER 22-24, MEDINA, OH COME HEAR THE VOICES OF BEE CULTURE SPEAKING THE WAY THEY WRITE Visit our site at https://www.beeculture.com/
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On Honey Bees and Fungi
By: Ross Conrad The relationship is a complicated one… The honey bee has an interesting relationship with fungi. Some fungi are harmful to bees…
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Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Liquid nitrogen is very cold – between -320° and -346°F. And it’s not cheap, but Katie Lee told me you…
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