The Beekeeper’s Companion Since 1861
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Contents – May 2026

- May 1, 2026 -

THE CLASSROOM
Jamie Ellis – 483

BEEKEEPING BASICS
Do You Really Need a New Queen?
Tina Sebestyen – 491

More Than Honey: AHPA Serves the Entire Beekeeping Industry
Anne MArie Fauvel – 497

Would Your Eat the Same Thing Three Meals Per Day?
Ed Szymanski – 499

PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING
Helping Thirsty Bees
James E. Tew – 501

Finding the Resistant Bees: Updates from international experts
M.E.A. McNeil – 505

Yellow-legged Hornets: The Coming Plague
Bill Hesbach – 511

Life Under Pressure
Bill Kaufman – 520

Africanized Bees in the United States, Part 1: Introduction and spread in the Americas
Dewey Caron  523

Where Do Honey Bees Mate? It is probably rarely at the closest DCA
Gard W. Otis – 527

THE CURIOUS BEEKEEPER
The Beekeeper’s New Clothes
Rusty Burlew – 533

Allowed to Stay
Brock A. Harpur – 537

Testing VarroxSan, Part 2
Randy Oliver – 541

BEES AND BEEKEEPING, PAST AND PRESENT
Bees and Honey: A West Coast Bee Journal
Wyatt A. Mangum – 551

A COMMERCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Are We Making Progress?
Charles Linder – 557

Buzzing for 150 Years: Inside One of America’s Oldest Beekeeping Clubs
Cathy Molitoris – 561

Beekeeping on the Island Named After Honey
Mihaly Hevesi – 565

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