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Honey Bee Hygienic Behavior(s) and Testing Anne Marie Fauvel & Robert Snyder, Bee Informed Partnership Who doesn’t like a feel-good story? Good news is…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Harvesting Honey Richard Wahl The Fruits of Their Labors: As the Summer months turn to Fall, it might be time to consider how much…
Read MoreVarietal – the Spice of Hive
Jeff Kennedy “Too many beekeepers fail to realize that the selling of a crop is fully as important as its production. The business part…
Read MoreImpact of UV-Induced Blue Fluorescence Entrances on Honey Bee Swarm Traps
Brian Fleischmann Introduction Swarm traps (bait hives) are a simple tool used to capture honey bee swarms. Swarming is a natural process that occurs…
Read MoreRegeneron International Science and Engineering Fair
Aparna Paul, Society for Science & Amara Orth At the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest science competition for pre-collegiate…
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Tip of the Month Richard Wahl Many hobby beekeepers strain their honey into five-gallon buckets with a bottom faucet for later bottling. Allowed to…
Read MoreIs it Getting Harder to Find Eggs?
This Clear Veil May Help Frank Linton My eyesight is not what it used to be. How about yours? These days, it is easier…
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Felix Puccio I recently was asked by my mentor to send photos of my failing bee hive to help her diagnosis its progress. Since…
Read MoreGoing 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…
Read MoreFound in Translation
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 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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