Dronings From A Queen Bee
Settling In Charlotte Hubbard My friend Rob is a private pilot. He flies for fun on the occasional weekend, and flies (pre-pandemic) internationally on…
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Dealing With A Case of European Foulbrood
An old disease with now new solutions James E. Tew Tempus fugit Time flies. Since 1974, I can document publishing more than 600 beekeeping…
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Dog Days Ed Colby It’s early July as I write, and hot enough to make a beekeeper cry for mercy. Our western Colorado highs…
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Meeting With Mimi Aung, Lead Engineer on the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Jerry Hayes Jerry – Thank you for taking time to talk to me!…
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Western Growers Association
John Miller Just after mid-August, 2021, Western Growers Assn. sponsored a virtual meeting with their members and Silicon Valley investors interested in Agricultural assets….
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Powering Your Bee With Flowers Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel What bees really need are more flowers. Seems easy enough, but like achieving world…
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Beehives Made of Stones and Logs Friederike Diestel When wandering around in nature on Ibiza, if you are lucky, you will discover massive, partly…
Read MoreComparison Of Treatment-Free Cultural Controls With Formic Acid Varroa Mite (Varroa destructor) Treatments In Managed Apis mellifera Colonies
Ross Conrad ABSTRACT The parasitic mite, Varroa destructor is the most widespread pest of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera. This mite reproduces in…
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It’s Summers Time –
Looking At Numbers And Saying Good-bye Kathy Summers So because of COVID and just in general being short-handed in our Publications department for the…
Read MoreQUALITY VS. QUALITY VS. QUALITY
Jeremy Barnes I need to have some paving done here at home. My neighbor was having asphalt laid in his driveway so I walked…
Read MoreTeaching Old Colonial Williamsburg’s Wild Honey Bees New Tricks
Joel Voron Wild honey bees are usually not a problem here at Colonial Williamsburg. However, one voicemail was about to change that. In June…
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Beekeepers Are Like Bees – Tom Theobald’s Everyday Impact
Kathryn Thompson Last Fall, I volunteered to visit with Paul Limbach and Tom Theobald to write some Colorado beekeeping history. The two long-time beekeepers,…
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Dr. Tracy Farone Looking for different perspectives… As I write this at the end of June and the dawn of July, it is berry…
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Lots Happening In Medina It’s been busy here in Medina so far this Summer – at home, at work and just in general. First…
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Good Help Can Be Found Dr. Tracy Farone On a rare day off in mid-May, I went fishing with my family, ironically at Slippery…
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History is Hints and Scraps
John Miller “History is hints and scraps of a former self.” It’s not my quote; but I know a good quote when I steal…
Read MoreBee Driven Mid-Life Crisis, Part 4 A Shout Out To My Friends
James Masucci When I made my decision to focus on bees, I had several concerns. How big do I want my business to be?…
Read MoreUnreal Drones in the Apiary
Dewey Caron Have you ever flown a drone? Not the live drones you find in your bee colony or tethered drones you might fly…
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Bottom Board
Aristotle And Bees Ed Colby My bee-hauling rig is a 1983 converted E350 Ford van. A former owner cut out the middle of this…
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Booke Decker Barbara Bloetscher, Ohio – Ohio Department of Agriculture is a State Entomologist/Apiarist who oversees the Apiary Inspection Program. Ohio is unique compared to…
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