Q: Bee and bananas? I am a fan of Charles Linder and admire his tenacity in finding solutions and actually acting on them in the industry. He should be commended! He wrote an article “Into the New Year” in the ABJ January 2026 issue in which he briefly referenced bananas. I believe he implied bananas …
Read MoreHowdy from Texas! I started my beekeeping journey 13 years ago when I found an online advertisement for a discounted beekeeping class. I came home absolutely fascinated with bees. To be clear, my life at that time was already full of what most would consider adventure and excitement. I was rounding out ten years of …
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For my collection of American Bee Journal and Bee Culture journals, back to their first issues, I took a bank loan to buy them back around 1987. Of course, now anyone can get digital copies. Both suffer from the same information loss, important for historical studies: The wraps are missing from the bound volumes, or …
Read MoreThe link between a sunlit meadow and a bee is ironclad, not just in our minds but in science. Bees and meadows co-evolved over eons, forming a symbiotic union where flowers provide sustenance for bees in return for reliable pollination. Instead of finding each other by chance, bees and meadows created one another. After some …
Read MoreThe queen’s notoriety If I had to be a bee, I would want to be the queen. She’s perceived as being the hive’s boss. She’s catered to, she’s defended, she’s indispensable to the hive’s wellbeing, and due to her uniqueness, I suspect she’s overrated. Every queen’s life has a jaded genesis. Her first official instinctual …
Read MoreInternational Experts Corroborate 15-to-20-Million-Year-Old Honeycomb with Trapped Scavengers found in Dominican Amber by Hermann Dittrich, NaturalAmber.com BUENA VISTA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — A newly documented fossil specimen of an intact stingless beehive architecture preserved in natural Dominican amber has completely upended a long-held scientific consensus. For decades, paleontologists assumed that an intact, social bee comb structure …
Read Moreby Geoff Williams June 24, 2026 Today, the U.S. Beekeeping Survey released its annual colony loss estimates for American honey bee colonies from April 2025 to April 2026. Led by Auburn University, in collaboration with Oregon State University and the Apiary Inspectors of America, the national survey revealed losses of 39.9% during the survey period. …
Read MoreThe Rules on the Quality and Labeling of Honey will come into force on 14 June 2026. The key change, which transposes Directive (EU) 2024/1438, relates to the more precise labeling of the origin of honey blends. Instead of the current wording “blend of EU and non-EU honeys,” the packer will be required to state …
Read MoreTHE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 825 BEEKEEPING BASICS Staying Cool and Summer Inspections Tara Chapman – 831 Time to Demand Action on the Hornet Randy Oliver – 837 Sourdough and the Art of Lactic Fermentation Graham Kingham – 839 A Bee in the Ear Peter Sieling – 841 THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER At What Price a …
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Orientation Day: This is a common sight outside the summer hive, and the beekeeper’ first reaction can sometimes be, “Oh no, robbers!” But in most cases these are just new foragers taking orientation flights — brief sorties outside, beginning just in front of the hive and then at increasing distances — to familiarize themselves with …
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