In December with the holidays upon us, spring seems a long way off. But for the bees, the spring starts weeks before the first snowdrops rear up through the frozen ground. As soon as the days start increasing in length again, the bees click into spring preparation mode. By January many colonies have started brooding …
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New research shows that honey bee brood has a surprising role in social disease resistance A larva has a pretty good life. Breakfast in bed all day, constant warmth, no work (other than maybe spinning a cocoon), and no responsibilities. Sure, larvae passively produce pheromones that help maintain the colony’s social cohesion1 and inhibit laying …
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During my early twenties I lived in Strathmore, a little town in the San Juaquin Valley of California next to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The main industry in this area was oranges, and if you lived there, you probably earned a living somehow from oranges: picking, packing, growing, transporting or selling. There were …
Read MoreSue Hubbell: Intemperate Apiculture Ron Miksha – 1317 Books for Winter Reading, and One to Look Forward To M.E.A. McNeil – 1323 Bee Sting Allergy: What You Need to Know Mark Anthony Powers, MD – 1327 Going Viral David L Glover – 1335 Guessing Our Future on Varroa Randy Oliver – 1339 Turning Hives into Living Artworks Monika and Pawel Stawoski – 1349 Catching Swarms: A Memoir …
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Honeywort (Cerinthe major) is a bee favorite, especially popular with honey bees and bumble bees. The bell-shaped flowers are nearly hidden from view and awkward to forage from, but they are loaded with nectar. Honeywort is in the borage family. Photo by Rusty Burlew.
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the addition of commodities to the trade mitigation package aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. Starting Monday, Sept. 24, producers of shelled almonds and fresh sweet cherries may apply for Market Facilitation Program …
Read More“Organic agriculture as being better for the planet. But what if we minimized the spread of agriculture, preserving more wild land and intensified our use of current farm land? Agriculture that appears to be more eco-friendly, but uses more land, may actually have greater environmental costs per unit of food than “high-yield” farming that uses …
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Chiggers, redbugs, harvest mites – whatever you call them, they are pesky little bugs whose bites cause really itchy rashes, usually around the ankles and waistline. Beekeepers often encounter them while working bees in outyards. New research suggests they might force you to become a vegetarian. In addition to being uncomfortable and annoying, these bites …
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For a few cold winters, I lived in an old thin-walled trailer heated by a couple of small kerosene heaters many years ago. When bitter, frigid winds buffeted the trailer, the dainty window curtains that hung inside twitched out the timing of the blasts. On the mini kitchen counter, freezing cold transformed common items: a …
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This is our twelfth “Notes from the Lab,” which means the column has been featured in ABJ for one year. That’s a shorter period of time than several neonicotinoid insecticides are known to be able to persist in soils. For example, if I applied a sufficient quantity of thiamethoxam to plants in my garden last …
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