Tag: 2026
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Working Bees on the Big Island
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Alaskan Beekeeper’s Brief Immersion in Hawai‘i’s Queen-Rearing World By: Jason Davis The ad in an email from Bee Culture caught my eye: “Help Wanted at Kona Queen Hawaii for November & December…bring…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
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Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Robbing and DIY Robbing Screens By: Richard Wahl Robbing Season Honey bee robbing occurs when foragers from one colony decide to invade another colony to steal honey or nectar. Robbing…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Hemolymph Tales By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Hemolymph (Blood) Biomarkers Honey bee hemolymph research is amazing and biomarkers are the reason. Scientists are asking questions about honey bee health and development and…
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Counting My Blessings
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! It is nice to experience an exceptionally good honey crop every once in a while despite the climate extremes By: Ross Conrad The 2025 season was a wild one for me in the…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! DNA Fingerprinting By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Long before your personal fingerprints became a tool to open computers, they were used to help solve crimes and other mysteries. Unique to all…
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The Unobservant Drone
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Beekeeping is mostly a matter of rearranging the contents of the hive to accomplish an apicultural objective without disturbing and irritating the inhabitants of the hive. In that regard, beekeeping…
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Two Tews – Both Beekeepers
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew Family members Many beekeepers have stories and histories of family members and friends who encouraged them to pursue beekeeping. In a way, that was my path – but not…
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Bee Vet
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Mentoring is a Loving Gift By: Tracy Farone In February, we celebrate love for others. One of the greatest things you can do for someone is mentor them. As a college professor, I…