Keeping Venom Out of Your Bee Club
By: Becky Johnson By Involving All Members In The Good And The Bad, Listening To Concerns And Forever Adapting To New Ideas And Ways,…
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Hands On Mentoring After The Classes There’s Very Little Formal Education For New Beekeepers
By: Buddy May Dedicated mentoring of the new and inexperienced beekeeper is perhaps the single most important aspect of successful management in beekeeping. I…
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Beekeeper Fred Anderson or The Mystery of Crystal Mountain
By: Peter Sieling In 1896-1897, Bee Culture magazine, then called Gleanings in Bee Culture published its one and only serial novel. A few complained that…
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Meet Dr. Jay Evans
By: Ann Harman From Washington …… To Washington Jay is originally from Seattle in Washington State. Since his mother worked in a natural history…
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Meet Christian and Stephanie Ramthun
By: David MacFawn In late August I had the chance to visit Christian and Stephanie Ramthun’s honey bee operation which is based out of…
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Meet Dr. Geoff Williams
By: Jennifer Berry Legend has it that back in the 17th century, an “aha” moment occurred when a young scholar, Sir Isaac Newton, was…
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A Closer Look- Impact of Nosema Disease
By: Clarence Collison IMPACT OFNOSEMA DISEASE ON PRODUCTIVE CASTES The biological impact of Nosema disease has mostly been associated with worker bees, whereas drones…
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Found in Translation
History Tends To Repeat Itself It can be easy to forget when working with honey bees that our human existence as their keepers pales…
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It’s Summers Time!
CHICKENS, WINTER, A BIT ABOUT ENGLAND Another completed year here at Bee Culture. It’s hard to believe. We’ve had a good year and hope…
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New – Gifts For Yourself Or Others
BeeCounted.org is a map-based public website where beekeepers and the general public can see the extensive data being collected across the country through BroodMinder…
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Beeyard Thoughts- Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Hey look! I see some beehives. True beekeepers just can’t help looking . . . While traveling, my much younger family…
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Meet Randy Verhoek
By: Jessica Louque South Dakota Native Managing 10,000 Colonies In the past year or so, I’ve spent a bit of time with Randy Verhoek….
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A Very Different Kind Of Fire
By: M.E.A. McNeil What Californians know about tornadoes is that they happen somewhere else. Ask anyone – not here, no way. But tornadoes did…
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Take Me On A Bee Cruise
By: Katherine Kiefer In January 2017 at the joint meeting of the ABF, AHPA and CHC in Galveston, the University of Minnesota Bee Squad…
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BEESPEAKER There are lots of things you can do to make sure this works.
By: Frank Mortimer, Jr. As president of the Northeast NJ Beekeepers Association, I am actively engaged in educating the general public about the importance…
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It’s MAGIC! You CAN Sell Honey For $20/lb
By: Leo Sharashkin A Missouri statute says: “Farmer not merchant.” That’s spot on: for many farmers and beekeepers bringing in a great crop is…
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Ukraine Honey Exports
By: James Hydzik Beekeeping looms large in Ukrainian society: one in nine Ukrainians keep hives. The Ukrainian Orthodox Christian church calendar includes Medovyi Spas,…
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Midwest Master Beekeepers
By: Moneen Jones The MO Master Beekeeper Certification Program is now the Midwest Master Beekeeper Certification program thanks to a collaboration with the Missouri Conservation…
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What To Do On Facebook
By: Jessica Dally I’ve written quite a bit about social media, what to do, what not to do, how to start. Now it’s time…
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Proposition 65 In California, Anything Can Be Dangerous!
By: Alan Harman Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, has been added to California’s Prop 65 list, meaning that glyphosate is “known…
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