Jonathan Willner, a California photographer, captured this photo early this spring “Right now in my backyard we have a tree stump that’s been gradually falling apart over the last year. A few months ago I started noticing a lot of bees flying in front of it. We’ve inherited a new bee colony that decided to …
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While many of you are busy enjoying much celebrated national beekeeping conferences, chances are you might not have even been aware that another beneficial and thought-provoking conference is taking place at the same time and most likely in the same place. The American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) has organized the American Beekeeping Research Conference …
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Q LINSEED/FLAXSEED OIL…Its Natural Jerry: I have a student with a ton of linseed oil who wants to know if he can use it on his hives. Any idea if it is OK? I note that varnish is acceptable. It has a strong smell and a foul taste, so linseed might be OK. Your section …
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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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