American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA)
Announces Winners By: Priyadarshini Basu The winner of the 2022 Extension Activities Award is PhD student Peter Fowler of Michigan State University, who is…
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Bulk Raw Honey Prices Analyst Project all time Highs
Brady Doran, Mann Lake For the past few years, U.S. honey prices have been retracting. Honey imported from a variety of sources has been…
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Measuring Pollinator Attractiveness
of Cultivated Flower Varieties By: Laura Kraft As gardeners become more interested in seeking out pollinator-friendly plants, the horticulture industry has a growing need…
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No Time for Fishing Ed Colby Doctors keep quitting on me. Two retired, one took an administrative position, another moved to India. Yet another…
Read MoreCattleman Includes Honey Business
James Howard In the flatlands of South Georgia, honey flows rich and golden. One man takes his heritage of farming and blends it with…
Read MoreThe Darby Bee Escape: Simple, Cheap and Effective
Peter Sieling In the early twentieth century, J.E. Crane wrote a series of articles in Gleanings in Bee Culture on his experiences as an…
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Thinking Outside the Bee Box:
Unusual Ways to Turn a Profit Stephen Bishop Life is full of little ironies. Last year I was on a podcast—and get this, the…
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Honey Bees Join Humans as the Only Known Animals that can Tell the Difference Between Odd and Even Numbers
Scarlett Howard & Adrian Dyer & Andrew Greentree & Jair Garcia “Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don’t wait.” As children, we learn numbers…
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The Times They Are A Changing
John Miller A trend is underway in manufacturing and transportation. Seems we are convulsed with trend changes, abrupt and sometimes shocking. This one is…
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Book Review
Mark Winston The recent full-on Russian invasion has focused and heightened attention on Ukraine and distinctive aspects of its culture, among other things bringing…
Read MoreOff the Wahl Beekeeping
Queen Rearing Richard Wahl In the April 2022 issue, I spoke about increasing your hive count and made the assumption that any splits with…
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A Closer Look
Division of Labor Individual workers perform different tasks at different ages Clarence Collison Colony life is organized by a complex and sophisticated division of…
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Oh, Bear; don’t despair
Zack Comeaux It wasn’t what I expected to see; I sort of went into shock. Toppled boxes and scattered frames. I had just expected…
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Minding Your Bees And Cues
Robbing the Honey Bank Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Honey bee management inspection protocols change throughout the season and beekeepers need to look to…
Read MoreFound in Translation
Herbal medicine for bees? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Bees have been reliant on plants, and vice versa, for tens of millions of…
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The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Bee
Ross Conrad The Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) has been in the news in recent years having made landfall in North America in late…
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Measuring the Mites
The Mite-A-Thon is a Conversation that is Keeping Colonies Healthier and Overwintering Stronger By: Savannah Christiansen (Pollinator Partnership), Anne Marie Fauvel (Bee Informed Partnership)…
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Honey Recipe
Apple Cinnamon Bread By: Shana Archibald Ingredients □ 1 cup honey □ 4 cups all-purpose flour □ 2 tablespoons baking powder □ 1 teaspoon…
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A Different Kind of Bee
By: Jim Thompson If you have read some of my articles, you know that my postcard collection influences some of my articles and this…
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Identification of a Parasite-Specific Viral Infection Associated with an Apis mellifera Honey Bee Colony from the Midwest
By: Roger A. Moore and Dave Wick In this article we present a case study regarding an Apis mellifera honey bee colony with a…
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