It’s spring and you survived the winter. As the sun re-emerges and the weather warms, honey bees begin taking their first real foraging trips to collect food for the colony. But of course, the flowers that are attractive to bees are also attractive to a broad range of other non-bee pollinators who are looking for …
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I was a young Assistant Professor, dark-haired, my PhD merely weeks old when I arrived, briefcase and 35-mm slide carousel in hand, for my first lecture to a beekeeping club in London. As soon as I entered the lecture hall I could tell something was up. There was a buzz of agitation in the air. …
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In the back of the feed store, where pallets of fifty-pound sacks rise to the ceiling and a calico cat naps on a hanging scale, I watch two women obsess over brands of layer ration. From what I can hear, they are comparing the protein content of various brands. It makes sense. If you want …
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The swarm season of 2017 started earlier than I expected. Swarm season typically begins well into April here in Piedmont Virginia, although one often hears about an unusually early swarm. At the end of March, news of my early swarm arrived. The sun was low in the sky when a truck arrived at the house. …
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THE SPIRIT OF BEEKEEPING I felt the need to share a picture I took. The man in the picture is Santos Alonso. As a child he started keeping bees with his father in Mexico. Eventually he came to California and found himself keeping bees for a company in Stanislaus County. Soon after, he decided to …
Read MoreHoneybee larvae develop into queen bees only when they are fed large quantities of royal jelly. But royal jelly does more than determine whether a larva becomes a queen: it also keeps her safely anchored to the roof of the queen cell in which she develops. Research published in Current Biology on March 15 explains …
Read MoreLack of information on the effects of all pesticide ingredients makes them appear safer than they are — potentially causing serious harm to people and the environment. New regulations are needed to protect people and the environment from toxic pesticide ingredients that are not currently subject to safety assessments. This is the conclusion of the …
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These are new close-up images of one of the mites responsible for killing billions of honey bees around the world. The magnified photographs of the pinhead-sized mite, aptly named Varroa destructor, were captured by Dr. Jonathan Salvage of the University of Brighton (UK), using a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (SEM). Dr. Salvage, a Research …
Read MoreHoney Harvest in a City Jim Fisher – 511 ABRC at AAPA 2018 Elina L. Niño – 515 Are Inferior Queens a Result of Contaminated Pollen? Karen Pedersen and Gil Pedersen – 521 The Varroa Problem Part 16b: Bee Drift and Mite Dispersal Continued Randy Oliver – 527 Gaining New Insights on Honey Bees and Hive Health Katie Coleman – 535 Blue Ribbon …
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Sarah Rath, wife and partner of Jack Rath of Betterbee, during a queen catch. The photo was taken by Jenny Dunn last summer at the Rath apiary in Vermont. Sarah is wearing one medical glove, so she can easily pick up queens. Check out Dunn’s article on varroa in this month’s issue.
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