Tag: September 2024
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Recommended Control Options By Seasonal Phase
STUDY HALL From the Editor, Jerry Hayes As I promised, here is all of the information available from the Tools for Varroa Management Guide on Varroa control. It gives you multiple options. And as I have said before, if you have sampled your colonies based on sampling directions in last month’s Study Hall and you…
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Honey Recipe
Cinnamon Roll Smoothie This recipe was originally published in the Blue Diamond Growers Almond Facts Magazine Ingredients □½ cup rolled oats □ 1 cup plain Greek yogurt □ 1 tbsp honey □ 1 cup Almond Breeze® Original Almond & Oat Blend □ 1 tsp ground cinnamon □ 1 banana, frozen □ 1 cup ice cubes…
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Milkweeds Are Not Just For Monarchs
By: Alyssum Flowers Although milkweed has often been considered a weed, and to farmers, an annoying nuisance, it has recently enjoyed new respect and attention due to our desire to “save the Monarch Butterfly”. The Common name of Milkweed is derived from the milky sap in the stem which contains cardiac glycosides – toxins that…
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Commercial Beekeeping Is Stormy
By: John Miller Beekeeping is stormy. A beekeeper is justified fretting over myriad threats big and small. I have (finally) learned: There is no point fretting over the weather. It took a long time to stop fretting over uncontrollable matters (I still have lapses). It does not matter how hard we stare at the radar.…
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A Beekeeper’s Primer
For Integrated Pest Management By: Edward Hsieh and Adam Dolezal The term “pest control” frequently conjures up images of masked exterminators dispensing poisonous chemicals from sprayer wands a la Dale Gribble from the TV series King of the Hill or crop-dusters dropping pesticides overhead. Combined with other depictions of pesticides, this seems to lead people…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Nature, Nurture and Varroa Resistance By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Western honey bees were hygienic long before the scourge of Varroa mites, or really any known mite pressures. It is literally…
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A Tough Crowd
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 Somewhere in the crevices of my brain, I have repressed the memories of my college public speaking class, which for extreme introverts like me is a class that ought to…
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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…