Summer Reads
Rusty Burlew, Dewey M. Caron, Mihaly Hevesi, Alison McAfee, and Tina Sebestyen – 709
THE CLASSROOM
Jamie Ellis – 715
BEEKEEPING BASICS
Tips and Tricks: Secrets to Better Inspections
Tina Sebestyen – 721
Eastern Apicultural Society 2026: Just Weeks Away – 727
Building a More Effective Beekeeping Scholarship Program
Jared Malcolm – 729
The 66% Share
Graham Kingham – 731
Another Type of Varroa Treatment Resistance
Max Watkins – 733
BEES AND BEEKEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT
During Afterswarming, Do Scout Bees Dance on More Than One Swarm?
Wyatt A. Mangum – 737
Building an Observation Hive
Andy Hemken – 743
Porchlight and Pollen
Bill Kaufman – 748
THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER
The Elusive Allure of Urban Beekeeping
Rusty Burlew – 753
Starting the Hard Way: Lessons the Bees Taught Me
Kenneth Dominguez – 759
PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING
A Bee Vacuum: A very useful tool when needed
James E. Tew – 761
Breaking Barriers in the Bee Yard
Stephany Henson – 765
Two-queen System
Bill Hesbach – 769
Industry Bits and Pieces 2026, Part 2
Randy Oliver – 775
Africanized Bees in the United States, Part 3:
Managing Africanized bees in California
Dewey M. Caron – 783
A COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Production and Marketing … and a Tropilaelaps Update
Charles Linder – 789
The Queen Slayer: Villain or Superhero?
Cynthia Daniels – 793
Get in Touch With Your Bees
John Kasprak – 795
Telling the Bees ( as practiced in England)
Peter Smith – 797
