BEEWEEK IN BRUSSELS
By: Joseph Cazier Why Americans Should Care Introduction From June 26-28, 2018 the European Parliament hosted the seventh annual BeeWeek in Brussels, Belgium. I was…
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Where the Girls Are
By: Kim Flottum 2018 USDA NASS Colonies Report This is the third year this report has been published, beginning in 2015. Below is the summary…
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Tom’s Podcast Special
Tom Theobalds’s 2010 Neonicitinoid Article Listen to his July 2018 Podcast with Bee Culture here
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby Insurance Woes I was a little surprised when the quote for “beekeeper” insurance for the Colorado Beekeepers came in at $1,450…
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A Closer Look: Piping, Tooting, Quacking
By: Clarence Collison It can be pretty noisy in a beehive. Just listen carefully. Acoustical signals have been found to be used for communication…
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Found In Translation
By: Jay Evans Bees, Beenomes, And Benefits From Science Close your eyes and imagine a realm where you are seeing features of biology for…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison SWARMING BEHAVIOR Reproduction by colony fission, or swarming, is a spectacular example of a behavior that requires the simultaneous coordination of…
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Is There A Proper Way To Wear A Bee Veil?
By: Jim Thompson Sometimes you see things that are very funny and you break out laughing even when it is really a serious situation….
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What’s In Your Bees
By: Peter Snyder and Kim Flottum Last September we published an article on this operation. If you recall, NAGC honey bee research and assay…
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IPM Research At The University Of British Columbia
By: Shelley Tomlinson Biologists, beekeepers and economists are all working together at the University of British Columbia (UBC) to help beekeepers deal with challenges…
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Sleep Deprivation
By: Antonia DeGroot & Gard Otis It may come as a surprise to learn that honey bees sleep, and that sleep is a fundamental…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison A TEMPORAL POLYETHISM The regulation of age-based division of labor among workers demands a high level of colony integration. Honey bee…
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The Hive Mind
By: Peter Borst When I first got interested in honey bees, I had this feeling there was something unknown waiting to be discovered in…
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The Technology Acceptance Model – Nudging Beekeepers Into The Future
By: Joseph Cazier, James Wilkes, Edgar Hassler Introduction In the April issue of Bee Culture we introduced the concept of a Genius Hive. Then…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
By: Jay Evans Holding The Line On Trait Rot and Inbreeding This month I describe three challenges in bee breeding along with recent efforts…
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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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Found in Translation
By Jay Evans Over In Winter I don’t want to dwell on loss for a second month, but there are increasingly good studies recently…
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A Closer Look- Waggle Dances
By: Clarence Collison Little is known about how waggle dance followers are able to read the waggle dance in the darkness of the hive….
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What Do Bees See?
By: Peter Borst When I first thought of writing about honey bee vision, the painted hive fronts of Slovenia seemed a good place to…
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Honey As An ANTIBIOTIC It’s the little things that count, it seems!
By: Tianna Kolody Honey is widely accepted as a source of natural antioxidants, with applications for food preservation and human health. In general, antioxidants…
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