Tag: Minding Your Bees and Cues
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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! Be Careful What You’re Good At By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel For this month’s interview piece, we decided to reach out to Brooke Nikkila. She recently became Wisconsin’s Apiary Program Coordinator &…
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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! A Survey of Newsworthy Bees By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel This year bees in the news got off to a dramatic start1 with unprecedentedly high rates of bee theft during almond pollination…
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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! When Beekeepers Meet By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Meeting with Minnesota Beekeepers The Minnesota Honey Producers Association* (MHPA) doesn’t like to meet alone anymore. After the tremendous success of the 2023 Tri-State…
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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! Comb Considerations By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Comb Costs Removable combs arm beekeepers with multiple management manipulation options. Raise your hand if you have found yourself in the middle of your apiary…
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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! Counting Bees By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel How Many Bees? What impresses non-beekeepers the most about a colony of bees is the sheer number of bees. Six hundred thousand bees does drop…
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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! Double or Nothing By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Newspapers are alive with headlines such as “The Rise of the Bee Thieves” or “The Great Hive Heist.” That’s because California almond pollination, that…
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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! Sensible Beekeeping By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Make Sense The most sensible beekeeper is the beekeeper who uses the most of their senses. The information your skin, nose, ears, eyes and mouth…
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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! Nature’s Timing By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Phenology is the scientific study of when things happen. When fruit trees bloom, when drones first appear in the colony, when basswood or black locust…