A RUDE AWAKENING
By: Ross Conrad My typical Winter losses over the last decade have tended to hover between 10-18%. Not ideal, but far better than what most…
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What’s Going On?
By: Ann Harman “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.” James Russell Lowell, American poet, certainly…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby What Happens When? This Winter I drove over the mountains to put down a rebellion of beekeepers who thought they might…
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Cooking with Honey
By: Ann Harman The Spring months are famous for the pick-your-own strawberry patches and for ripe blueberries. Use some of your honey to enhance…
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Caveat Emptor: Let the Buyer Beward
By: Vaughn Bryant, Texas A&M There is very little truth in honey labeling. “Houston, we have a problem!” Those were words that echoed around the world…
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The American Bee Research Report
A Summary Of The Proceedings From Galveston By: Elina L. Niño This year marked yet another tremendous joint conference of the American Beekeeping Federation, The…
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Downtown “Your City” Bees, LLC
By: Toni Burnham You Can Do This About a year and a half ago, one of my favorite newbee-ish beekeepers asked me to lunch….
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Bottom Board
What Happens When? This Winter I drove over the mountains to put down a rebellion of beekeepers who thought they might secede from the…
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Detecting Honey Adulteration
By: Robert Packer Using Infrared Spectroscopy. It’s as easy as A, Bee, C. Food adulteration: A global problem While many people are aware of…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Prime Time, Passing Along Immunity. What if you could predict the disease environment of your offspring and then do something to increase their odds…
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A Closer Look
Queen Rearing Behaviors Conflict and cooperation during queen replacement. The production of new queens is a colony level process involving the coordinated activities of…
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The National Honey Bee Survey In Vermont
By: Ross Conrad Made Possible by Samantha Alger and Alex Burnham The massive increase in U.S. honey bee colony losses in the last decade has…
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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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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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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison The Queen’s Court Usually eight or more worker attendants are present when a queen is stationary, but they tend to lose…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
By: Jay Evans Good Bug, Bad Bug As I finish this column on Super Bowl Sunday I am reminded of a sarcastic comment used…
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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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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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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison POLLEN CONSUMPTION AND DIGESTION Protein (pollen) consumption is necessary for the glands to develop fully and to produce high quality protein-rich…
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Jay Evans
By: Jay Evans Studying The Weather Goes A Long Way In Knowing Colony Health Honey bee colonies, along with humans and the rest of…
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