Honey Bee Colony Losses 2018-2019 – Preliminary Results
By: The Bee Informed Partnership The Bee Informed Partnership (BIP; http://beeinformed.org) recently conducted the 13th annual survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the…
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Let’s Go For A Drink
By: Ann Harman “Whew! It’s hot up here on this rooftop. There’s plenty of sidewalk cafes here in the city – let’s go find…
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Found in Translation
By: Jay Evans Varroa mites remain enemy number one among the living threats to honey bees. This is despite decades of attempts to understand…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum So, the unemployment numbers in this country have been staggeringly low for the past few months, and I am quite sure that…
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The Story of A.I. Root
By: A.I. Root Comb Foundation Made of Paraffin In June, 1876, I was filling orders for comb foundation made of paraffin. In my experiments…
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By: A.I. Root In past years we have provided this report in our May issue, following a February release of this data. However, due…
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Save Lives! Monitor Hives!
By: Meghan Milbrath Our goal as beekeepers is to keep our bees safe and healthy, and to make sure that our beekeeping doesn’t affect…
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External Hive Inspection
By: Ross Conrad In the age of ubiquitous Varroa mites, potentially devastating small hive beetles, unpredictable weather patterns, rampant viral infections, nosema with minimal…
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Smokers
By: David MacFawn Smoker size and the fuel used can have an impact on the beekeeper’s satisfaction. Large smokers are generally easier to light…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum “Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming…” ― David Bowie “…and a lot of it will be wrong, but just…
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A Honey Bee’s Guide To Managing Beekeepers
By: The Beekeeper’s most common complaint, after the cost of equipment, bad queens, government idiots, and low honey prices, is that bees don’t read…
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Found In Translation
By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab I have highlighted the insightful work by Dr. Samuel Ramsey showing that Varroa mites slice their way…
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The Story of A.I. Root
By: A.I. Root To make it a little more of an object for some beekeeper in every neighborhood to canvass his locality for subscribers,…
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Producing Ross Rounds By: Kim Carpenter What is Comb Honey Simply stated, comb honey is honey that is produced by the bees in the…
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A View From French Hill
By: Adam Foster Collins Meeting Mike Palmer, Part 1 Vermont is my childhood home and bees have been in my family for generations. I…
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Bee Farming In The United Kingdom (From The Beginning To Now, Part 1)
By: Ann Chilcott This is the first article in a three-part series on bee farming in the United Kingdom by Tony Harris N.D.B. (National…
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The MiteCheck App
By: Jonathan Engelsma (Grand Valley State Univ), Meghan Milbrath (MI State Univ), Karen Rennich (BIP), James Willkes (Appalachian State Univ) Early Spring is the time…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum I’ve been talking with someone who is interested in starting a business dealing with the beekeeping industry. He has extensive, successful experience…
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The Story of A.I. Root (Gleanings In Bee Culture – The Early Days, The 1870s)
By: A.I. Root Gleanings in Bee Culture was started on January 1, 1873, as a quarterly for the purpose of answering the multitude of…
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Sustainable Beekeeping (Never Buy Bees Again. Part 2)
By: Meghan Milbrath A few spring-like days means that beekeepers are peeking in their hives, hoping to find big clusters and heavy boxes. Inevitably, we’ll…
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