Years 2 & 3 Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your first Three Years Spring Hive Cleaning Time! • Select…
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Package Delivery Day
By: David MacFawn This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Saturday, March 16, 2019 Robert’s Apiary,…
Read MoreMaking Splits: Steps to Success
By The Ontario Bee Journal; Appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Splitting existing colonies is a great way…
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A Difference of Opinion
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Early in American history it was…
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Build a Wax Strainer
By: Ed Simon This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years It happened again. I received another…
Read MoreInstalling Packages
By: Kim Flottum This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Bees are collected, either by shaking…
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The Kenyan Top Bar Hive
By: Tina Sebestyen This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years My first mentor was a commercial…
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To: Someone Thinking About Starting Beekeeping From: A New Beekeeper
By: Buck Bradley This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years So, you are thinking about getting…
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Getting to Know Beekeeper and Author Ross Conrad
By: Alice Eckles This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years We have some Great writers and…
Read MoreFirst Year Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Goal-all comb drawn by end of…
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From the Editor; Interview with Dr. Jamie Ellis
By: Jerry Hayes A 4.5 Million Dollar state of the art Honey Bee Lab, dozens of grad students over the years, a series of…
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Pesticide Ignorance
By: Michele Colopy Last year at a state beekeeping conference an academic researcher discussing bee health stated “glyphosate does not harm bees.” When questioned…
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Horizontal Beekeeping
By: Tina Sebestyen My first mentor was a commercial beekeeper, so I learned Langstroth style management, but it was a Kenyan top bar hive…
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Why are Bees Stripey
By: Mary Montuat, Editor of The Irish Beekeepers Journal My eye was caught recently by a bizarre news item from Japan. It described an…
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Found in Translation, Beeoptimism-Five Reasons
#Beeoptomism 2.0: Let’s not go viral. By: Jay Evans I am a huge fan of the #Beeoptimism movement. Built on a similar effort to…
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New Years Resoultions
Author: Ann Harman You have your new Bee Culture calendar all ready to hang up. Your New Year’s Eve celebrations are all arranged. You…
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Found in Translation
Author: Jay Evans Last month I reviewed fundamental studies that have used hand-tagged bees to determine with actuarial precision the typical worker bee lifespan…
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A New Decade
Author: James E. Tew The year was 1964 I was 16. My grandparents were alive and well and lived on the family farm. Life…
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Fired Up for Bee Hunting!
Author: Thomas Seeley Bee hunting is the sport of finding wild colonies of honey bees. To pursue it, you usually start by capturing a…
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Economic Outlook for 2020 Almond Pollination Season
Author: Brittney Goodrich The following article summarizes my outlook for the 2020 almond pollination season in terms of estimated demand for colonies, pollination fees,…
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