This month we explore the little-known realm of queen cell cups, when worker bees lay eggs in them. How exotic is that? Queen cell cups are small cup-like structures that form the base of queen cells built for swarming or queen supersedure (replacement). Figure 1 shows a queen cell cup. Beekeeping slang can be confusing …
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Do you have children who are picky eaters? Or, perhaps you’ve looked at the kid’s menu at a restaurant recently and thought, “Wow, that is some really bland food.” Or, perhaps in a weak moment, you’ve actually snuck a taste of some of the pasty pureed food from the baby aisle at the grocery store …
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Raising a batch of brood requires a treasure trove of resources and generates a heap of waste. Some folks have estimated that a honey bee larva increases in weight up to 1,500 times during the five-and-a-half-day period from hatching to spinning a cocoon.1 If you had an eight-pound newborn growing at the same rate, it …
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Since February of this year we have been focusing on the bee family tree and its phylogeny and biogeography that led to the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, the bee known round the world today as the honey bee. We have taken a necessarily long view, long in time that is, beginning with the corbiculate …
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Q POWDERED SUGAR for VARROA Hi Jerry, Several folks in my area recommend a powdered sugar treatment simultaneous with ApiLifeVar thymol treatment. However, I get confusing advice on powdered sugar. Is it the grocery store stuff that has some cornstarch or is there a “pure” non-cornstarch product, and if so where does one find it?? …
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We hoped that sequencing the honey bee genome would unlock the evolutionary mysteries around the origin of insect societies. So twelve years later, how is it possible that we still only know what about two thirds of their genes actually do? We used to think that knowing an organism’s genome sequence – or complete genetic …
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Grant allows researchers to develop app and Amazon-like seed distribution Funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Barbara Sharanowski will coordinate a nationwide team of citizen scientists who will convert lawns into native wildflower havens especially designed to attract native bees and other insects that pollinate plants. Bees and other pollinators are essential …
Read MoreStudy reviews the global importance of vertebrate pollinators for plant reproduction Bees are not the only animals that carry pollen from flower to flower. Species with backbones, among them bats, birds, mice, and even lizards, also serve as pollinators. Although less familiar as flower visitors than insect pollinators, vertebrate pollinators are more likely to have …
Read MoreIn February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids is harmful to bees. A novel pesticide manufactured by Bayer AG is therefore being discussed as an alternative; it contains flupyradifurone from the class of butenolides. The product goes by the brand name of Sivanto. Sivanto is assumed to …
Read MoreThe Future of Organic Regenerative Certification Rusty Burlew – 637 Mining Website Traffic for Swarm Activity Bryan C. Hains – 643 Modeling Nuc Buildup Randy Oliver – 647 A Honey of a War Charles and Karen Nielsen Lorence – 655 More Fruitful Beekeeping with a Management Plan Tina Sebestyen – 665 Superorganism Resilience Bill Hesbach – 675 Envisioning the Future of Beekeeping Part 1 Tammy Horn …
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