Tag: March 2025
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Honey Recipe
Molasses/Honey Cookies From David Lewis A Note to the Editor Jerry, I’ve been cooking for 60 years now and I still come across something incredible. My wife has a recipe that has been in her family for a long time. We recently celebrated our 26th anniversary and recipe was old and faded when we met.…
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Three Things for Bees
By: Zachary Lamas I was recently asked by a beekeeper what would be three things I would encourage new beekeepers to do if I could only suggest three things to focus on? This was such a good prompt. They asked it at the end of a talk, that was on disease ecology of honey bees.…
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Thriving Hives: A Matter of Science or Mere Chance?
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 (Click on photos to enlarge) Coming out of Winter sometimes feels like playing the lottery. Instead of scratching off numbers, we are opening lids to see which hives survived the…
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Some Common Principles of the Spring Management of Bee Colonies
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Giving it Your Best Guess By: James E. Tew As I write for you, my Winter tally of Winter-killed colonies is still unknown, but I can predict that it will be disappointing. I…
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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! Divide and Prosper By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel When it comes to doing Spring divides, beekeepers are divided. We were raised with Spring splits as a beekeeping rule, not a management exception.…
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Carolina On My Mind
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 I have divided allegiances. I’ve spent most of my life living within fifteen minutes of the North Carolina/South Carolina line. I lived on the northern side, while my grandparents lived…
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Escaping the Virion?
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! By: Tracy Farone (Click on images to enlarge) As we trod through the end of Winter season into March, we see hopes of Spring in the occasional warm day, allowing us to get outside and get…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Frame Manipulations By: Richard Wahl From Supers to Frames In last month’s article I wrote about reversing brood supers, when to add honey supers, feeding options and some generalized inspection…