Table of Contents

Contents – November 2025

THE CLASSROOM
Jamie Ellis – 1181

BEEKEEPING BASICS
Screened Bottom Boards, Honey Bees, and Mites
Tina Sebestyen – 1187

Do Bees Survive a Sugar Shake?
Mary Woolford, Robyn Underwood, Jennifer Tsuruda, Geoffrey Williams and Selina Bruckner – 1191

Sustainable Beekeeping Using Stock Derived from a Local Feral Population
Kevin J. Gross – 1195

THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER
Tripping Through the Sunflowers: How I flip-flopped on a research paper
Rusty Burlew – 1201

Seed Money
Peter Keilty – 1207

The How and Why of Oxalic Vaporization, Part 2
Randy Oliver and János Fenyősy – 1211

How Invertebrate Iridescent Virus Became Infamous
Alison McAfee – 1223

Beyond Instinct: Individual Differences in Honey Bees Stinging Behavior
Michał Jurewicz – 1227

PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING
The Ageless Alley Queen and Drone Trap
James E. Tew – 1233

An Idiot’s Guide to Selecting an Apiary
Cy Maddox – 1239

BEES AND BEEKEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT
A small Colony of Queenlees Bees: A Closer Look
Wyatt A. Mangum – 1243

The Hybrid Honey Bees of Egypt: A Success Story Illustrating the Transition from Low Productivity to Export Success
Hossam F. Abou-Shaara – 1253

A COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Who Moved My Cheese Honey?
Charles Linder – 1259

Scents, Memory, and the Science Behind Precision Pollination
Sofía De León – 1265

What’s Blooming in Your Neck of the Woods? November
Ed Szymanski – 1269

New Tricks for Old Dogs
Dave Loftin – 1273

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