Building Community By Killing Varroa
By: Toni Burnham Losing Too Many Hives Here’s an admission: I have been complaining a lot about urban beekeeping lately. For my first six years,…
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Writing Beekeeping History
By: Bill Mares & Ross Conrad How Vermont Is Making It Work The Story of One State’s Beekeeping History – How some Vermont beekeepers are…
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Young Harris Institute
By: Jennifer Berry It’s amazing how many meetings and workshops one could attend around the county, state, or country. This week alone at only one…
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A Closer Look
By Clarence Collison POLLEN CONSUMPTION AND DIGESTION Protein (pollen) consumption is necessary for the glands to develop fully and to produce high quality protein-rich…
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Jay Evans
By: Jay Evans Studying The Weather Goes A Long Way In Knowing Colony Health Honey bee colonies, along with humans and the rest of…
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Sunny and Chair
By: Alan Guebert The chairman gaveled the Ag Committee to order. “We’re here today,” he announced in his best radio voice, “to rapidly confirm…
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From a Beekeeper’s Wife-
The Farm, March 1, 1917. Dear Sis, Rob is making out the order for new beekeeping supplies for this year, and while he does…
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Flower Power
The Physics Of Pollination By: Marie Davey Pollination. The word brings to mind the droning buzz of fat yellow and black bumblebees bouncing from…
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Pesticides in Colonies Linked to Honey Bee Deaths
By: Kirsten Traynor and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, et al* Honey bee colonies in the United States have been dying at high rates for over a…
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The Layens Hive
By: Leo Sharashkin Using Local bees, And An Appropriate Hive.Unconventional? Perhaps. “Keeping bees requires little effort, and barely any capital to get started,” wrote…
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Just Mite Work!
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden We live in the foothills of the Cascades in western Washington, northeast of Seattle. While we’re not technically in…
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It’s Summers Time!
Spring, Galveston, Time With Ann. In theory by the time you read this it will be almost officially Spring. I’m not sure what that…
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InnerCover
We routinely conduct reader and customer surveys to keep tabs on what you are up to, and what you think about what we do…
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March Report
Where Do They Sell Their Honey? What do people sell, and where do they sell it. When it comes to honey, there’s a predictable…
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Bee Pollen- An Overview
By: Ross Conrad Bee Pollen: Implications for Human Health Last month we looked at bee pollen: what it is; how it is collected by…
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HOLLY BEE
By: Kurt Knebusch and Paul Snyder Plant these for bees, and the holidays this year. Here’s seven hollies that can take it when…
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WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GIANTS
By: Peter Sieling Visiting with the Cogshall Brothers and G.M. Doolittle. Many years ago, my dad, the first beekeeper I ever knew, took me to…
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A “NET GAIN” CELL BUILDING SYSTEM
By: Joe Latshaw Not how big, but how small can a cell building colony be and still do a good job? Queen rearing is…
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Honey By The Ton From Top Bar Hives
By: Wyatt Mangum This article provides data on cotton honey production from top-bar hives collected over two seasons. The first season was a trial…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby Shipping Day It broke my heart yesterday when Mike came for our steers Jem and Buttercup. In the Spring we bought…
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