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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Minding Your Bees and Cues
The Merchant of Honey By: Becky Masterman and Bridget Mendel Somewhere in Minnesota, in the biggest shopping mall in America, there is a small…
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BEEing Diverse: Inspiring Leaders in Beekeeping
Mark Your Calendars for September 30 – October 1, 2022 Thank you to everyone who attended! Meeting Address: Bee Culture Conference Room 640 West…
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Life, Death and Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon
By: National Geographic Explorers Rosa Vásquez Espinoza and Ana Elisa Sotelo For centuries, communities in the Peruvian Amazon foraged for the hives of Amazonian…
Read MoreMaryland Holds a Honey Show Judging Class
Allen Hayes, EAS Master Beekeeper Does your state have enough qualified honey show judges? Are the same people asked to judge year after year?…
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Curing an MRSA Infection with Direct Application of Local Honey
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban In the first years of the 21st century, my husband and I hired a carpenter-friend, John McCabe, to work on our 1855…
Read MoreHoney is Baked in Comfort food
Alice Eckles Everyone was baking. Flour was flying off the shelves. People who never baked a loaf of bread in their lives decided that…
Read MoreThe tale of an ecological whodunnit
Rosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
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Your Ad Deer, Inc.
Stephen Bishop For anyone looking for prime advertising space, boy have I got a deal for you. Last night, while I was driving home…
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Book Reviews
Kim Flottum Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Third Edition. Dewey M. Caron and Lawrence John Connor. Published by Wicwas Press LLC, Kalamazoo, MI 49001….
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Prepper Nation Jessica Lawrence I am so tired of politics. What was once a (mostly) mildly disagreeable topic that could be discussed with some…
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Bee Vet
The Diagnosis of the Shrew Dr. Tracy Farone One thing about beekeeping is it always provides an opportunity to learn something new. It definitely…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bee Environmental Monitoring Clarence Collison Human Activities Produce Contaminants Human activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s…
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John Miller Science is hard. The beekeeping industry doesn’t fund a lot of bee research science. We do some very good science – but…
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All My Fault Ed Colby It’s a snowy 3 a.m. on May 4 here in western Colorado. Can’t sleep. My head is filled with…
Read MoreFound In Translation
Do Bees Feel Sick? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab In our own species, disease can be swift and devastating. In the U.S. alone,…
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