Leslie Tiller ventured out into the swamps of Virginia to meet local swarmcatcher Jack. Their adventures together led them to a beautiful river house, where bees had taken up residency in the ornate scrollwork of one of the columns. Read her delightful tale in this issue.
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Long Lang Hive The Long Lang Hive article by Caroline Abbott (April, 2018) certainly provides readers with another option to keeping bees compared to the traditional Langstroth Hive. The article, however, presents many questions to the reader which need to be answered. These include: moving the hives, feeding the bees, treatment for SHB and varroa …
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It’s really tough being a new beekeeper. You’re trying to make sense of a jumble of insects that live together in a colony of 30-50,000 individuals, with each of those worker bees equipped to dole out stings if you mess up. It’s a little terrifying. Congratulate yourself for considering it—you’re a brave, courageous soul. Usually …
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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 …
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