Pesticides in Colonies Linked to Honey Bee Deaths
By: Kirsten Traynor and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, et al* Honey bee colonies in the United States have been dying at high rates for over a…
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Just Mite Work!
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden We live in the foothills of the Cascades in western Washington, northeast of Seattle. While we’re not technically in…
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Winter? What’s That?
By: Ann Harman While Old Man Winter is delivering wind and snow to the north, let’s take a little vacation way down south where…
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Found in Translation
By: Jay Evans What’s Going On At The Beltsville Bee Lab? Practical research discoveries follow a twisting path. Basic research driven by the human…
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CLARENCE COLLISON: A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison VARROA MITE POPULATION GROWTH A factor that might contribute to the growth of Varroa populations is the migration of mites into…
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WAS 2016
Notes From The Hawaii Meeting By: Malcolm Sanford The 2016 version of the Western Apicultural Society (WAS) met in Hawaii October 12 through 15…
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HELP
We need a speaker! Well, here’s some ideas for your club. It’s January and the East Cupcake Beekeepers Association does not have a speaker…
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A Closer Look
PARASITE, PATHOGEN, PESTICIDE, POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS Honey bees are suffering from elevated colony losses in the northern hemisphere possibly because of a variety of emergent…
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Sharing Knowledge
Iraqi Youth Learn From Oregon Beekeepers By: Charlie Vanden Heuvel Portland Urban Beekeepers (PUB) hosted a delegation of enthusiastic, Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program…
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Honey Bee Gut Microbia
What Is It and Why Is It Important? In June 2016, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin published the study “Gut Microbial…
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A Closer Look
Orientation Flights And Scouting Behavior By: Clarence Collison Honey bees take repeated orientation flights before becoming foragers at about three weeks of age (Winston 1987)….
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A Closer Look
Varroa Mite Phoretic Phase By: Clarence Collison The Varroa mite life cycle consists of two distinct phases: a phoretic phase during which the females…
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Democracy
What we can learn from the bees. by-Tony Harris Honey bees perform the waggle dance on the comb within a nest to inform other…
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Observations From The International Pollinator Research Conference
by-Michele Colopy The Third International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health & Policy, held July 18-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University. It was supported by…
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Do I Need a Vet for My Bees?
by- Chris Cripps A Q&A on FDA’s new antibiotic regulations. Q. I heard I have to have a veterinarian for my bees –…
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Master Beekeeping Programs
by- Jerry Bromenshenk The face of beekeeping education looks vastly different than it did 10 years ago and is continuing to change. There is…
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A Closer Look
Sperm Viability by- Clarence Collison The survival of a honey bee colony depends, in part, on the reproductive success of the queen, which in…
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Pollen Quality
The nutritional value of pollen has been demonstrated by measuring such diverse parameters as the growth and development of fat body, the development of…
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Take Care of the Bees
By Jennifer Berry This past June, Brushy Mountain Bee Farm had a Field Day,which attracted about 150 participants. I was invited to lecture on…
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Protecting Pollinators
By: Gail Wells and Moneen Jones Two new ways to stop killing bees! Protecting bees from pesticides just got easier with the release by…
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