Tag: Authors
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Beekeeping is a Crime
A Cautionary Tale of Woe and Intrigue By: James Fischer Imagine buying a new home, zoned for mixed residential/agricultural use, and then having the town property board refuse approval for beehives on your land. Beekeeper association officers should heed this story because your local government might try the same dirty trick. This was Alex Urban’s…
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Found in Translation
A Tale of Two Viruses Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Jay Evans For mindless organisms with fewer than ten known proteins in their arsenal (several of which have the single role of building a shell to live…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
A Fungicide Miss Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Becky Masterman When honey bee workers entomb something in their nest, maybe we should listen to them? When colonies use propolis to wall off the pollen stores they invested…
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The Queen, Dr. Tarpy, and Endless Lessons
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Theresa J. Martin I attended the Eastern Apiculture Society (EAS) Conference on July 27-29, and came home with new knowledge, new questions, and a renewed appreciation for how much there is still…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Creating Beekeepers, Not Just Bee Owners Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Richard Wahl Clubs, Conferences or Bee SchoolsHaving visited many clubs and attended numerous conferences throughout my years as a beekeeper, I have experienced a wide variety…
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Bee Vet
“Disabeeity” – When the Doctor Becomes the Patient Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Dr. Tracy Farone A quick AI search of “the average age of the American beekeeper” presents results in the 50-60 years range. While there…
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The Egg Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
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 We’ve been keeping chickens for fifteen years, even though they serve no practical purpose but to provide the ambiance of a mild domestic disturbance. Apparently, we keep them for their…
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The Hidden Cost Of One More Hive
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns In my first few years as a new beekeeper, I thought that becoming a better beekeeper meant you started to have more hives. Even though I only started with one…