During a dark and bitter cold morning of last January 2017, I had just sprinted to the back door of the house. I was running from the bee house by my home apiary. Not because of the bees, but rather I ran from seven measly degrees above zero, the only ones remaining at 4:00 a.m. …
Read MoreHaving spent 36 months thinking together about the social evolution of the honey bee, it’s worth pausing to reflect that the whole social enterprise rises or falls on the system’s ability to rein in individual selfishness. E.O. Wilson, the “father of sociobiology” and Pulitzer prize winning science writer, reminds us that we humans are eusocial …
Read MoreHarvey & Irma’s Impact on Beekeepers Kirsten Traynor – 1179 How a Population of Wild Honey Bee Colonies Living in New York State is Surviving Tom Seeley – 1183 Breeding a Better Bee: Three Social Immunity Traits, One Massive Experiment Alison McAfee – 1195 Honey Bee Nutrition—Part 6 Dale Hill – 1199 Making Comb Honey Should Be Simple and Fun Rusty Burlew – 1205 What …
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Fall arrives in an apiary. The changing leaves and shorter days mean winter will soon be here. Colonies are prepped and ready for winter, ideally with plenty of stores, lots of young, healthy winter bees, and low varroa mite pressure. Wishing you and your bees a Happy Thanksgiving.
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It was at a Governors’ Conference several years ago where Mrs. Karen Pence learned about bees firsthand. She knew they existed; she knew they were important, but Mrs. Pence did not realize exactly how exciting bees were until she attended this conference with her husband. The National Governors’ Association sets up meetings for first spouses …
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I suppose most folks have a “Bucket List” and one of mine, for at least a decade, was to become a beekeeper. That dream became a reality about six years ago, and I now have nine colonies in my northeast Texas backyard. Of course, now I have a “Bee List” as well as a “Bucket …
Read MoreUngroomed sites correspond with flower pollen-sacs and stigmas PLOS After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Petra Wester from Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany, and colleagues. Flowers depend on pollen for pollination, …
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In 2011 when the first Bee Informed Partnership technical transfer team was formed in northern California (really, even before that, but we won’t confuse a good story), no one could have ever guessed where it would take us. We had long range plans but most were vague and foggy. There was so much to do …
Read MoreBerlin Rooftop Session- Save the bees Dear Editor, We would like to inform you about an action by the Berlin-based artist “Schlindwein”, who has performed a Rooftop-Concert between beehives, in order to draw attention to the topic of the dying of the bees and the alternative to keep bees directly in the city. He had …
Read MoreQ POLLEN AS VEG. Hi Jerry, In “The Classroom”, December 2016, you made the comment about stored pollen, “… but unless it has been stored in a -80F freezer, the contents of the pollen (plant sperm) with all the nutritional elements begin to break down and are not very useful.” The protein content in the …
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