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,…
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A 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…
Read MoreThe Doctor is In
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…
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,…
Read MoreWinter Honey Recipe –
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…
Read MoreAn Interview with Hector Alvarez
California Beekeeper From Mexico Ettamarie Peterson I first met Hector Alvarez at the Sonoma County Beekeepers’ Club (now an association) meetings twenty-eight years ago….
Read MoreWhy Didn’t You Listen To Your Mentor Part 1
Ed Simon The three parts of this collection are subsets of the 263 hints, definitions and informational tidbits gathered in over twenty years of…
Read MoreBigger Picture
An Interview with Benjamin Vasquez Jessica Lawrence For the interview edition, I wanted to put a highlight on beginner beekeepers. They face obstacles now…
Read MoreWhat Makes a Great Queen?
Patricia Harness I have some great queens, three sets of sisters. Is it overly optimistic to expect their daughters to be great? What makes…
Read MoreBuild A Dual Pane Inner Cover
Leonard Riepenhoff We install dual pane windows to keep our homes cooler in warm weather, and warmer in cold weather, why not do the…
Read MoreWizards and Prophets
Jeremy Barnes “Don’t you think it would be sad if the human race suffered a catastrophe?” Charles Mann asked the late, great evolutionary biologist…
Read MoreFall Honey Recipe
Shana Archibald Apple Cider Donuts 1½ cups apple cider 1 cinnamon stick 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly 2 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon salt…
Read MoreCalifornia Beekeeping From Past to Present
Ettamarie Peterson Up to a century and a half ago, overland shipment of bees to California was considered impossible – travel through the Great…
Read MoreConeflower, Please
Alyssum Flowers No garden or landscape should be without coneflower, Echinaceae spp. due to its cheery flowers, rugged hardiness and perennial visitation of many…
Read MoreBuild A Stainless Uncapping Tank
No More Plastic Ed Simon Are you tired of using a plastic uncapping tank that moves whenever you bump it and then needs to…
Read MoreApiary Inspection Tennessee
Mike Studer The Tennessee Department of Agriculture Apiary Program currently has 6 part-time inspectors and one full time State Apiarist. To supplement the high…
Read MoreThe Are Not My Bees!
But somehow, I am Responsible. James E. Tew Time stands still Sixteen years ago, in the October 2005, Bee Culture magazine, I wrote an…
Read MoreLaying Workers
Greg Carey If you keep bees, sooner or later you will encounter a laying worker situation. For me it was in my second Spring….
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