Table of Contents

Contents-December 2025

THE CLASSROOM
Jamie Ellis – 1303

BEEKEEPING BASICS
Just Keeping Your Bees Alive?
Tina Sebestyen – 1309

Apimondia 2025
Kris Fricke – 1315

Organic Colony Management … Managing Non-varroa Pests and Pathogens in Your Organic Apiary
Laura C. McHenry, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Robyn M. Underwood – 1321

Oxalic Acid Titration
Randy Oliver – 1327

THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER
Stem Cells, Weeds, and Honey Bees
Rusty Burlew – 1337

PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING
Lower-energy Beekeeping: Making do with less
James E. Tew – 1343

BEES AND BEEKEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT
Removing the First Difficult Frame from the Broodnest With All the Frames Welded in Tight With Propolis
Wyatt A. Mangum – 1347

What’s Happening to the Oilseed Rape (Canola) Crop in Britain?
Richard Rickitt – 1355

A COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
December Thoughts
Charles Linder – 1359

Selective Breeding for Mite Resistance
Part 4: How we do it
Randy Oliver – 1363

Monitoring for Varroa mites: More Information is Better
Lewis Cauble – 1369

What’s Blooming in Your Neck of the Woods? December
Ed Szymanski – 1373

The Psychology of Marketing Your Honey (and what we can learn from “The Godfather”)
Peter Smith – 1377

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