Tag: Becky Masterman
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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 Queen Excluders By: Becky Masterman & Dan Whitney Either loved or hated by beekeepers, the queen excluder might just be the industry’s most controversial piece of equipment. We argue…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
By: Becky Masterman Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Honey Production Behind every bumper honey crop is a nectar flow. Some call it a honey flow. Frank Pellett, author of American Honey Plants, summarized honey production as being “dependent…
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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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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 Bees By: Becky Masterman Beekeepers keep a threat list based on beekeeping experiences. The longer you have been a beekeeper, the lengthier your list of beekeeping menaces might be.…