ABJ Cover

ABJ JULY 2025 COVER

- July 1, 2025 -

American Bee Journal Volume 165 No. 7 July 2025 Alfalfa Leafcutter bee on a thistle. Callouts: Splitting in July - 735, Leafcutter Bees Need Help, Too - 739, The Shift Toward Bioacaricides - 751

It’s been over six years (see April 2019) since we’ve run a non-honey bee on our cover, but this alfalfa leafcutter really caught our eye. It was provided by Shelley Hoover and Lynae Ovinge of Lethbridge, Alberta (Canada), to accompany Ali McAfee’s story about these bees, whose importance to the alfalfa and canola pollination is underappreciated.