MAKING INCREASE
A Comparison Of Different Methods Of Obtaining Honey Bees By: Patrick Dwyer Making increase is a fundamental activity of beekeeping whether one is a…
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Bottom Board
By Ed Colby Galveston Paul and I depart in the teeth of a snowstorm. Over Vail Pass, up the long hill to the Eisenhower…
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Searching For Pollen In Honey
By: Vaughn Bryant, Texas A&M It’s Not As Easy As You Think! “Hello, Dr. Bryant could I visit your lab this weekend and learn how…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Talking and writing about bees – modern beekeeping minefields, and comments on dealing with old frames. Talking and writing about bees –…
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Royal Jelly- A worker bee produced, protein rich, mother’s milk
By: Stephanie Bruneau Did anyone ever tell you ‘you are what you eat’? There is no creature for which this is more true than…
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Kid’s Corner
Blue Blossoms For Honey Bees
By: Janet Davis There’s something about shimmering blue flowers that fascinates gardeners – in fact some love them so much that they devote a…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison The Queen’s Court Usually eight or more worker attendants are present when a queen is stationary, but they tend to lose…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
By: Jay Evans Good Bug, Bad Bug As I finish this column on Super Bowl Sunday I am reminded of a sarcastic comment used…
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One Hundred Years Down A Breeding Rabbit Hole
By: Bob Brachmann Over the last 33 years, starting with the discovery of tracheal mites in the U.S., there’ve been many new challenges to honey…
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New For the BeeKeeper
HB Hive Co. Protects Honey Bees With Inventive Beehive And Beehive Feeder. Established in 2016, HB Hive Company designs and builds beekeeping equipment with…
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It’s Summer’s Time
Turmeric, Chickens, Ducks and Wooster. I wish that all of you were having the kind of Winter that we are. We have been very fortunate…
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INNERCOVER
Been watching the price of honey lately? Our monthly honey report has been on a slow but steady no-movement-at-all flatline for about a year…
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April Regional Honey Price Report
Winter So Far . . . Honey prices keep coming up in discussions, so we took a look at January vs. April prices on…
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All About Her Majesty The Queen
By: Larry Connor This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Before obtaining the first bee colony,…
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Got Questions? Phil Knows!
By: Phil Craft This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Q: A beekeeper in Virginia writes:…
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Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Spring is a busy time for…
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Let’s Make Candles
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Candle Making When thinking of products…
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City Bees: In the U.S., Cities Are About as Native as Honey Bees
By: Toni Burnham This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Since it’s Winter for many of…
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Do Bees’ Feet Have Suckers?
By: Ian Stell This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The short answer is: no, they…
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