Keeping Bees At Lee Correctional
By: Gee Atkinson The bee program here is only one of many we have. If you are like me, I rarely drive by Lee…
Read More
The National Honey Bee Survey In Vermont
By: Ross Conrad Made Possible by Samantha Alger and Alex Burnham The massive increase in U.S. honey bee colony losses in the last decade has…
Read More
It’s Hive Inspection Day With Your Mentee!
By: Ann Harman Every student of the beginning beekeeper classes of the East Cupcake Beekeepers Association is assigned a mentor. In order to help…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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 –…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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…
Read More
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,…
Read More
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:…
Read More
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…
Read More