Table of Contents

Contents – March 2026

THE CLASSROOM
Jamie Ellis – 251

BEEKEEPING BASICS
Swarm Season Can Help Your Raise Great Queens
Tina Sebestyen – 257

Producing Swarm Queens for Fun, Profit, and Really Big Queens
Part 1: What we don’t know about swarms
Shelley Stuart – 263

The Indiana Queen Breeders Association, Part 1
Jeff Becker – 267

Mysterious Queen Cell Disease Linked to Black Queen Cell Virus and M. plutonius, the Bacterium Responsible for European Foulbrood
Alison McAfee – 274

THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER
Book Scorpions: A Tale of Literature, Lice, and Varroa Mites
Rusty Burlew – 279

Life Without Permission
Bill Kaufman – 286

High-temperature Thermoregulation: A living example of cooperation and adaptation
Bill Hesbach – 288

BEES AND BEEKEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT
The Quick, the Dead … and the Misled: Cold Water Survival of Honey Bees
Wyatt A. Mangum – 293

Beekeeping It Young
Elaine Timm – 301

A COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Are Unsustainable Losses Finally Coming to a Head?
Charles Linder – 307

PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING
The Aura of Bees
James E. Tew – 313

An Idiot’s Guide to Selling Honey
Cy Maddox – 317

A Golden Glow: Inside the Bee Museum of Rhodes
Samuel Peters – 320

Creating a Model for Oxalic Acid Vaporization, Part 2
Randy Oliver – 323

Organic Colony Management … Organic Practices are Profitable for Backyard Beekeepers
Laura C. McHenry, Robyn M. Underwood, Selina Bruckner, and Margarita M. López-Uribe – 331

Interview with Dr. Ralph Büchler, Part 1
Jakub Jaroński, Bartłomiej Maleta – 335

Around the World
John Nohr – 341

 

 

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