Pollinator Week
By: Matt Mulica By now we’re all familiar with the sobering statistics of population declines among honey bees. From 2013-2020, annual managed bee losses were…
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Dogs Can Smell Honey Bee Disease
By: Dewey Caron Dogs are famous for their sense of smell. A dog’s sense is so advanced they can smell disease in bees or…
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Bee Keepers’ Guide To Honey Bee Viruses
Anna Gajda DVM, Phd, Warsaw University Of Life Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Bee Diseases, anna_gajda@sggw.edu.pl Ewa Mazur DVM, Warsaw University Of…
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Cleared For Takeoff
By: Steve Repasky “Cleared for takeoff” is a common phrase heard at airports all over the world referring to the clearance given by air…
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Pollination In China
By: Mariann Fercsik It’s Not The Bees “With the introduction of China’s Home Responsibility System in the 1980s, the farmers of Hanyuan County in…
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Bees Need Meat?
By: Kirk Anderson The process of science involves new discoveries and continuous revision. The culture of science has placed a premium on novelty, but…
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Herding Genes With Epigenetics
By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Knowing the complete genome of an animal, whether human, bee, or worm, can go a long way toward…
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It Began with Brother Adam
By: Tina Sebestyen Brother Adam lived an incredible life, and contributed greatly to beekeeping in several ways, but most of all in creating a…
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American Bee Research Conference Abstracts
Introduction and Overview The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) is an organization consisting of professors, state apiarists, scientists and students who study and…
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Three Bees I Have Known
By: Gene Robinson Do you remember Barry B. Benson, played by Jerry Seinfeld in the 2007 film Bee Movie? Benson was a honey bee…
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An Early Swarm
By: Stephen Bishop This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Sometimes life, like swarm season, comes…
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What Your Mentor Forgot to Tell You!
By: Ed Simon This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The conventional wisdom about beekeeping is…
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In Clover
By: Leah Smith This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years “The pedigree of honey does not…
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Shopping For Bee Equipment?
By: Jim Thompson This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years I help run a bee museum…
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Open Air Beauty
By: Jackie Currie and David Arnal This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Our local club,…
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By: Scott Hotaling This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Our ancestors have a long history…
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Beekeeping: Keep it Simple! Just Keep Them Alive!
By: Suzanne D. Cohen This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years I’m a fretter, from a…
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Building Five Frame Nucs
By: Jim Berndt This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Spring and early Summer is the…
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Cooking with Honey
By: Shana Archibald This article originally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years HONEY CHOCOLATE COOKIES 2½ C of…
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A Lot to do in Spring
By: Zac Lamas This article orginally appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years You can do a lot of…
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