Goodbye Kathy Part 4 – It’s Summers Time
For December 2021, we are featuring three separate goodbye’s for our wonderful layout and design person, Kathy Summers as well as, one goodbye from…
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Goodbye Kathy Part 3 – From the Editor
For December 2021, we are featuring three separate goodbye’s for our wonderful layout and design person, Kathy Summers as well as, one goodbye from…
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Goodbye Kathy Part 2 – From Friends and Loved Ones
For December 2021, we are featuring three separate goodbye’s for our wonderful layout and design person, Kathy Summers as well as, one goodbye from…
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Goodbye Kathy Part 1 – Well Done Kath!
For December 2021, we are featuring three separate goodbye’s for our wonderful layout and design person, Kathy Summers. Kathy has been with us a…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
An Interview with Dan Whitney Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Our favorite beekeepers are bee habitat obsessed, like Dan Whitney, owner of Whitney Lone…
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Beekeepers Too John Phipps Ever since reading Robert Putnam’s seminal work on American communities, Bowling Alone, I have looked at my tiny neighborhood differently….
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A Student’s Perspective
Proving Stereotypes Wrong Madison Miller Through the eyes of the uneducated, me and my fellow drone honey bee’s have been accused of being “lazy”,…
Read MoreMultiple Applications of Vaporized Oxalic Acid
for the Control of Varroa destructor in Honey Bee Colonies Jennifer Berry Oxalic acid has gained popularity in the United States over the years,…
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A Closer Look
Honey Bees Sleeping At Night, honey bees pass through a physiological state that is similar to mammalian sleep. Clarence Collison “Honey bees are among…
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How to Inspect a Hive
Part 1 By: Darryl Gabritsch Inspecting a hive is only one part of colony management. If you see an issue while inspecting a hive…
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Bee Vet
An Interview with Dr. Britteny Kyle, DVM, MS Dr. Tracy Farone For BC’s interview issue, I sat down (over ZOOM) with Dr. Britteny Kyle,…
Read MoreA Case for Embracing Smaller Population Beehives
Beekeeping Techniques for the Faint-Hearted Beekeeper James E. Tew My bees are ageless. I am not. As have you, I have been through many…
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Apiary Inspection Maryland
Cybil Preston We have one full time Apiary Inspector, four contractual part time seasonal human bee inspectors, two seasonal K-9 Foulbrood detectors and two…
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An Interview with James T. Key
Ross Conrad While there are African American beekeepers in the United States, generally speaking with a few notable exceptions (such as the city of…
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An Interview with Oregon’s Dr. Ramesh Sagili Dewey Caron Oregon State University’s (OSU) bee position dates back to 1919. Herman Scullen was hired so…
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Suggestion for Holiday Season Reading
A History of Keeping and Managing Doubled and Two-Queen Hives, by Alan Wade. Published by Northern Bee Books, UK, 6.5” x 9.5”, 169 pgs.,…
Read MoreAn Interview with Dr. Humberto Boncristiano
InsideTheHiveTV, the Show about Bees Malcolm Sanford Growing up in a beekeeping family, with a father as a commercial beekeeper near Sao Paulo, Brazil,…
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American Foulbrood
A Hobbyist’s Epxerience Charlotte Hubbard & Robert Candido Opening a hive and deeply breathing in the scent, seeing those shiny, curious faces staring back,…
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Berries & Honey Breakfast Granola Shana Archibald 3 cups of rolled oats 2/3 c of honey 2 tsp cinnamon 2 tsp baking powder 1/2…
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The Beekeeping Journey of a Biologist –
An Interview with Slava Strogolov Biologist at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Earl Hoffman Question: Please share your background. Why did you choose to…
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