Why 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…
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Bigger 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….
Read MoreFound in Translation
Food And The Thinking Bee Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Honey bee foragers get cues from dancing nestmates, colony stores, and the gaping…
Read MoreIt’s Summers Time –
Fall and Goldenrod and Dahlias Well there are some clear signs here in Northeast Ohio that Summer is almost done. The lady who sells…
Read MoreSeptember Bear
Ron Miksha Our part of the world (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has been home to black bears and grizzlies for about ten-thousand years. In recent…
Read MoreApiary Inspection Indiana
Kathleen Prough There is one inspector for the entire state and apiary registration is not mandatory. There are approximately eight commercial beekeepers and 6,000…
Read MoreRooftop Beekeeping-Should You Try It?
Carleigh Turner Walking on the rooftop of a building, you might expect to see a pool, a garden, or just a barren urban landscape….
Read MoreDrought, Supers, Empty, Feed Cost Up, Varroa, Overwinter (Is That Enough?)
John Miller It’s approaching mid-August in Gackle. Last night the first measurable rainfall since July 3 occurred. As I told Reuters reporter Karl Plume,…
Read MoreBuilding A Migratory Cover – Cement
Ed Simon Earlier this year (2021) the cost of lumber rose to unprecedented heights. Within ten weeks the cost of plywood doubled. The migratory…
Read MoreThe Happy, Sad Day Of Late Summer, 2021
It’s ending. James E. Tew Yep, for me, the 2021 season is ending. Yes, there will still be some late season flowering action from…
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