Tag: Authors
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Shutting Down Federal Bee Labs Threatens Bees, Beekeepers and the US Food System
This article was originally published by The Conversation Jennie L. Durant America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier…
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WHO KEEPS THE BEES?
A Portrait of the American Beekeeper Who they are, Why they do it, and What keeps them going By Mirza Tihic | Syracuse University You want to understand a beekeeper? Don’t start with the honey. Don’t start with the hives. Start with this: most of them are losing money, most of them knew they would,…
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Tropilaelaps Redux
Part 1 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad While yellow-legged hornets and reduced oversight and regulation of pesticides and pollution at the EPA are a couple of the latest concerns that have potential to be a…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Happy Birthday USA 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 On this 250th birthday of the United States I thought I would present something a bit different. Rather than more information on beekeeping, which has been the…
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Raise a Queen
Become A Better Beekeeper 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 Many beekeepers probably feel that raising queens is out of reach and best left for large-scale, commercial beekeepers with decades of experience. You might think that…
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For the Newer Beekeeper
An Overview of Common Neophyte Beekeeper Questions and Issues 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 Driving a car and keeping beesInitiating and developing beekeeping skills is much like learning to drive a car. Few people…
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Found in Translation
Tracking Tropi 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 After millennia of infesting Asian honey bee colonies, Tropilaelaps mites discovered they could survive and thrive in colonies of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The most widespread…
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The Bane of Bottlenecks
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 Bottlenecks are the bane of a beekeeper’s existence. Just when you think you’ve solved one, another appears. “It sure would be nice to have an automated uncapper,” I said one…