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The Bane of Bottlenecks
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Bottlenecks are the bane of a beekeeper’s existence. Just when you think you’ve solved one, another appears.“It sure would be nice to have an automated uncapper,” I said one afternoon,…
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Found in Translation
Tracking Tropi Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Jay Evans After millennia of infesting Asian honey bee colonies, Tropilaelaps mites discovered they could survive and thrive in colonies of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The most widespread…
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Rebuilding the Buzz in Ohio’s Farm Country
By: Jake Zajkowski Twenty years ago, trailers of commercial beehives movedthrough Ohio to pollinateanything with a flower. Their stops included the state’s orchards, forage operations and David Paynter’s buckwheat fields.In late Summer during the crop’s bloom, Paynter hired commercial beekeepers who traveled from field to field to improve buckwheat yields.“When you walked along the edge…