Bee Vet
A Surgical Approach Dr. Tracy Farone Did you ever have a moment within the crazy pace of life where you suddenly stopped, looked around…
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Cattleman Includes Honey Business
James Howard In the flatlands of South Georgia, honey flows rich and golden. One man takes his heritage of farming and blends it with…
Read MoreThe Darby Bee Escape: Simple, Cheap and Effective
Peter Sieling In the early twentieth century, J.E. Crane wrote a series of articles in Gleanings in Bee Culture on his experiences as an…
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Queen Rearing Richard Wahl In the April 2022 issue, I spoke about increasing your hive count and made the assumption that any splits with…
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Herbal medicine for bees? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Bees have been reliant on plants, and vice versa, for tens of millions of…
Read MoreMaryland Holds a Honey Show Judging Class
Allen Hayes, EAS Master Beekeeper Does your state have enough qualified honey show judges? Are the same people asked to judge year after year?…
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Rosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
Read MoreHoney is Baked in Comfort food
Alice Eckles Everyone was baking. Flour was flying off the shelves. People who never baked a loaf of bread in their lives decided that…
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Prepper Nation Jessica Lawrence I am so tired of politics. What was once a (mostly) mildly disagreeable topic that could be discussed with some…
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Do Bees Feel Sick? Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab In our own species, disease can be swift and devastating. In the U.S. alone,…
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Placing A Hive and How Many Richard Wahl Siting a Hive: Hive placement can be one of the first critical considerations if you are…
Read MoreSplitting Colonies: Second Edition
David MacFawn There are multiple ways to increase colonies and control swarming. Splitting colonies is one method to help the beekeeper. Walk-away splits (where…
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A novel experience that only adds to my indecision James E. Tew Any time and no time Any time and no time are both…
Read MoreFive Ways Companies are Helping Native Bees Worldwide and How You Can Help, Too
Sienna Malik Beekeepers needn’t be told about the importance of bees as pollinators, or about the threats to the global economy and food security…
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How to Start Greg Carey Forewarned is forearmed. When I first started thinking of keeping bees, I did not know that “all the bees…
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Bee Vet
The Hexagon, Under the Microscope Dr. Tracy Farone Each Fall for about 10 years now, I have had the joy of teaching a course…
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Hunting and Bees Jessica Lawrence There are a lot of different types of beekeepers out there. In fact, I’d say that most any two…
Read MorePlanning Your Pollinator Garden
Alyssum Flowers The best way to learn about pollinators and help them thrive is to have established plantings of flowering plants whether it’s annuals…
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Greg Carey I should start by stating my opinion that all feeding of bees is emergency feeding. I hope to provide support for that…
Read MoreHealthy Soil = Healthy Bees
Aaron Weaver As we know, our bodies work best if we are on a balanced diet. We are of the soil, therefore a soil…
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