Bigger Picture
New Year’s Resolutions, 1 By: Jessica Louque For most people, January instills the need to make resolutions of some sort that are supposed to…
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Elina Niño
New U.C. Davis Extension Apiarist By: M.E.A. McNeil The quest started years ago, when Eric Mussen began to contemplate retiring from his job as…
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Unfinished Business
By: Peter Sieling Dick’s widow, Alice, called me on the first of September about a bee swarm. She probably thought of me because I…
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Inner Cover
Old Guys. Honey Report. Invasives. By: Kim Flottum There are few things I enjoy more than attending a beekeeper’s meeting. It’s a place where…
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Wait, How Much Water?
By: Frank Linton In Winter, bees generate warmth by ‘burning’ the honey they have stored, i.e., by digesting it and using the resulting energy…
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A Closer Look
Salivary Glands By: Clarence Collison Salivary glands are involved in digestion, cleaning, softening foods, metabolism, growth, labor transition, brood pheromone and hormone regulation, saliva…
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An Amish Snowboarder By: Ed Colby My gal Marilyn is such a schemer. I told her, “The Medina County beekeepers want to fly me…
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Hive Tracks
By: James Wilkes Hive Tracks is beekeeping software created by beekeepers for beekeepers with the goal of improving the quality and experience of beekeeping…
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It’s Summers Time
Calendar, Chickens and Winter By: Kathy Summers If you are one of our regular subscribers you have just received your 2015 Annual Bee Culture…
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Which Came First?
By: Timothy Norray Tim Norray here from a little town of Berne, New York (Albany County). My father Jack has kept bees for over…
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Ask Phil
Got a Question? By: Phil Craft A beekeeper in Missouri writes: What is in the flowers’ nectar that makes honey light colored (typically Spring…
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