BIGGER PICTURE: A Yellow Jacket Adventure
Jessica Louque I’ve seen a lot of unfortunate misidentifications of bees lately. It could be because I work with honey bees on a daily…
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PESTICIDES WINTERING IN YOUR HIVES
What pesticides are hibernating with your honey bees? by Michele Colopy Now that it is November, honey bees across the U.S. have been moved…
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Back To Basics: Foundation
by Jim Thompson Honey bees are amazing insects, but you already know that but I just wanted to reaffirm that information. The strongest geometric…
Read MoreMoses Quinby
America’s Father Of Practical Beekeeping by David Edwards In 1853, Lorenzo Langstroth of Massachusetts and Moses Quinby of New York published their books on…
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The Things We Do For Research
In the last article I mentioned how difficult research can be at times and that the current project we are working on has been…
Read MoreA Closer Look: Fat Bodies
Scattered all through the body cavity of the honey bee but especially in the abdomen are irregular masses of a soft, usually white tissue…
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Bees on Fire!
Bees on FIRE!! American Foulbrood! The worst nightmare of a beekeeper to say the least. Recently I had the unfortunate opportunity to witness the…
Read MoreRule 7 Part 1
I’m jumping ahead this time but we’ll get back to Rule 3 soon. But this time I’m looking at something more timely…. The Seventh…
Read More10 Rules: Rule #3 Part 3
Russian Bees Get It Right A noted honey bee scientist in the U.S. said some time ago he was weary of dealing with Varroa….
Read More10 Rules: Rule 3, Part 2
Isolation is ideal, and mostly impractical any more. But for some it has worked for years. No new bees in the neighborhood can…
Read MoreTen Rules: Rule # 3 Part 1
Pest Management – Rule 4 Although the staple pests and diseases are still with us, and will rise and shine on occasion, the 5000…
Read MoreWhy We Keep Bees?
Reasons you may not have thought of. by Joe Traynor Ask a beekeeper – commercial, sideliner or hobbyist – why he/she keeps bees and…
Read MoreTen Rules: Rule 2 Part 2
by Kim Flottum Finishing up on Rule 2 about having Good Genetics, we get to the basics…resistant of the common problems, efficient producers, and…
Read MoreTen Rules- Rule 2 part 1!
Rule 2 – Good Genetics The fundamentals of this rule are simple. Accomplishing them is somewhat more difficult, but you have to have a…
Read MoreFive Friends Any City Beekeeper Wants to Have
by Toni Burnham City beekeepers often worry about the resources surrounding our bees. Well, here is another reason to take heart! We live in a…
Read More10 Rules Part 2
Picking up where we left off with Good Queens, the next obvious piece of this is that good queens should be healthy beyond belief….
Read MoreTen Rules of Modern Beekeeping… Part 1
10 Rules of Modern Beekeeping There are, I’m certain, far more than 10 rules that you can use to guide you through the common…
Read MoreClosing down
It’s been a hard autumn this year. A long, but not particularly difficult recovery from back surgery last fall kept me at mostly three…
Read MoreSpreading the Good News, and the Honey
About 60 yards or so from my house runs one of the many small creeks Ohio seems to have. I live just north of…
Read MoreNew Pesticide Labels Will Better Protect Bees and Other Pollinators
From the EPA: WASHINGTON – In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide…
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