Make a Frame Holder
Felix Puccio I recently was asked by my mentor to send photos of my failing bee hive to help her diagnosis its progress. Since…
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Going Places with Balloon Flower
Alyssum Flowers A true blue champion in the garden is balloon flower or Chinese bellflower, Platycodon grandiflorus, a two foot tall clump forming perennial…
Read MoreWorld Bee Day in Ukraine During the Russian Invasion
Tanya Richardson & Leonora Adamchuk The UN created World Bee Day in 2018 to highlight the importance of pollinators and the threats that they…
Read MoreHoney Bees: Should they be banned from native plant restoration areas?
Kathy Keatley Garvey What’s a honey bee to do? The dwindling resources of pollen and nectar producing plants in California greatly concern bee scientists…
Read MoreFrom Alaska to Scotland: in Search of History, Honey Bees and Sustainability
Lisa Hay Recently I traveled to Scotland with my son in order to spend some quality time with him and to introduce him to…
Read MoreSalivating Over Salvia
Alyssum Flowers Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the sage family (the mints, Family Laminaceae) with over 1000 species of annuals, perennials…
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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…
Read MoreCattleman 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?…
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…
Read MoreThe tale of an ecological whodunnit
Rosamund Portus, research fellow at UWE Bristol Originally printed in BeeCraft There are few practitioners of bee husbandry who will easily forget the events…
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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 MoreA Package Bee Queen
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 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…
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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