20 Awesome Facts About Honey Bees
By: Gail Damerow This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Honey bees make up less than…
Read MoreHive Tasks: July, August, September
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years First Year • Monitor and decide…
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Summer Increase
By: Larry Connor This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Summer increase colonies are easy to…
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Selecting the Appropriate Protective Clothing
By: James E. Tew This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Go to task with proper…
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City Bees: Mosquito Summer
By: Toni Burnham This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping your First Three Years I have to credit one of…
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Water Gardens
This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Bees Need Water and Will Find It…Somewhere. By: Larry…
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Winter in July
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years In Antarctica, yes. But here in…
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Colony Development
By: Larry Connor This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Mastering Bee Biology To be successful…
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The Beekeeper
By: Jim Thompson This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Over the years a beekeeper develops…
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Got Questions? Phil Knows!
By: Phil Craft This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years How to recognize a queenless hive …
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Colony Robbers: When Good Bees Go Bad
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Honey bee workers normally forage for…
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Summering Your Top Bar Hive
By: Christy Hemenway This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Consider heat, rain and queen loss…
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Is Natural Really?
By: Jennifer Berry This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years When the most recent and well-publicized…
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Good Stuff From Ann
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years What’s on the menu? Sugar It…
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Food Safety Modernization Act
By: Ann Harman ‘He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.’ – Jonathan Swift I suppose that that ‘bold man’ would have…
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August Crossroads
By: Larry Connor August is a frantic crossroad month when Summer management runs into the needs of Winter colony survival. While I have written…
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Pollinator Decline & Self-Medication
By: Rachael Bonoan Can we help pollinators help themselves? Pollinators Can Get Medicine from Their Food While there are plenty of activist groups raising…
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The Chemistry of Honey
By: Sharla Riddle Honey bees are chemists. Using enzymes and dehydration, these scientists of the natural world are able to change the sugar…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum On the 10th of August we’re holding our second Pollinator Day here at the Root Company’s Pollinator Meadow, behind our…
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It’s Summer Time
By: Kathy Summers The duck, Anthony and Brushy Mountain Field Day. It’s been another crazy, busy month for us – lots of travel and…
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