A magnificent swarm photo by Åke H Nilsson. It appears in the Bonhoff article, where the author has us re-evaluate when a colony ceases to exist. The original queen leaves with a swarm, so the daughter colony left behind should be considered a new colony with a different genetic fingerprint.
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How can I help my bees get rid of all these mites?” A question that surely emerges in beekeepers’ heads when they open their colonies and see legions of hungry monsters crawling around. Fortunately, many weapons are available in the fight against Varroa destructor. Unfortunately, they do not completely eradicate the parasite. Worse, the most …
Read MoreQ IT’S RED!! Jerry, Found this lady outside of her hive in Northwest Georgia. The temperature had reached the high 40’s that day. The red in her pollen sacs is what caught my eye. I thought it strange, as I had never seen pollen that color, let alone in cold weather. An internet search led …
Read MoreTallow Tree Response Good grief! when it is not the varroa, it is legislators who actually want to kill the tallow tree. Our fellow beeks in Louisiana and Texas are heavily dependent on the tallow tree [which, unfortunately does not grow here :-( ]. Apparently, the tallow tree is an invasive species introduced from China. …
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Winners Will Use $40,000 in Prize Money to Improve, Accelerate Honey Bee Nutrition The Honey Bee Health Coalition announced that it has awarded $40,000 to four innovative projects aimed at improving honey bee nutrition and supporting honey bee and pollinator health. The awards, announced at the 2018 American Bee Research Conference, are part of the …
Read MoreFor 38 years, Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen did everything he could to help the honey bees. “I am basically all pro-bee; whatever I can do for bees, I do it,” Mussen told the American Bee Journal in a two-part interview published in 2011. “It doesn’t matter whether there is one hive in the backyard or …
Read MoreWhen given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports. The puzzling finding comes on the heels of other studies linking fungicides to declines in honey bee and wild bee populations. One recent study, for example, found …
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As spring appears, here are three events to observe, ranging from the rarely seen to perhaps the under reported. In a melting March snow, the air too cold for bee flight, I was out patrolling my rural apiaries and came upon some birds fluttering around the hive stands. With the tracks in the snow cover, …
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If you crave tea or coffee in the morning, you’ve experienced how plant chemicals (e.g. caffeine) influence the choices you make. And this can be good! There are plenty of studies showing that a cup or two of coffee per day can be good for your health. But there are also synthetic chemicals that can …
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Apis. The genus to which our honey bee, Apis mellifera, belongs is so distinctive in the human imagination that its name is recycled up and down the chain of bee taxonomy. Moving first down the taxon, the genus Apis is divided into the small open-nesting species comprising sub-genus Micrapis, the large open-nesting species Megapis, and …
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