Tag: Articles
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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! For the Love of Eggs By: Becky Masterman While the 2026 class of brand-new beekeepers are hunting for eggs in newly drawn beeswax comb, scientists are busy studying them (the eggs, not the…
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Is a New Queen Always the Right Queen?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Matchmaking – You and Your Queen By: James E. Tew “You” and your queensIs the best queen for your bees always the best queen for you – the beekeeper? Sometimes yes but sometimes…
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Why I Refuse to be a Mentor But Help Hundreds of Beekeepers
Duane Combs Every new beekeeper probably hears that they need to do three things: When I got my business degree and headed out into the real world, people told me to find a mentor. I looked and I looked but I could not find a person who was on the leading edge of business who…
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Facing Tropilaelaps – Country of Georgia
By: Maggie Gill This article was originally was previously published in BBKA News In February 2026, I will return to Thailand to continue my research into Tropilaelaps. This trip will take place almost exactly three years after my first visit to the country, and my first direct encounter with Tropilaelaps. One of the most striking…
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The 2026 Swarming Season
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Annual Event By: James E. Tew Over and again Oh, no! Not swarming – not again. How many times have you read articles or listened to presentations on the subject of swarming?…
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The Trojan Nut
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 A long time ago, the Spartan king Menelaus married the most beautiful woman in all the land, Helen. She was the envy of everyone’s eye (especially those one-eyed cyclopes over…
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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! Bee Birthdays? By: Tracy Farone Happy Spring – Happy Birthday! Every year in March, I turn another year older. For those of us that have had more than a few, we may not…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
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 Vertical Splits, The Demaree Method By: Richard Wahl Intro When I began working with bees as a result of a swarm catch in 2010 I never imagined that I would…