Exposure to Neonics Results in Early Death for Honey bee Workers and Queens, York U Study

Posted September 1, 2017

Exposure to Neonics Results in Early Death for Honey bee Workers and Queens, York U Study

York University TORONTO, Thursday, June 29, 2017 – Worker and queen honeybees exposed to field realistic levels of neonicotinoids die sooner, reducing the health of the entire colony, a new study led by York University biologists has found. The researchers were also surprised to find that the neonicotinoid contaminated pollen collected by the honeybees came …

Posted September 1, 2017

Hot Cities Spell Bad News for Bees

A new study from North Carolina State University finds that common wild bee species decline as urban temperatures increase. “We looked at 15 of the most common bee species in southeastern cities and – through fieldwork and labwork – found that increasing temperatures in urban heat islands will have a negative effect on almost all …

Posted September 1, 2017

Blind Beekeeper from Uganda Wins International Award to Support Blind and Low Vision Entrepreneurs

‘Hive Uganda’ Founder plans to bring honey production and beekeeping training to the blind community of Uganda as an inaugural winner of the Holman Prize. GULU, UGANDA – Imagine tending a beehive – or a whole farm of bees – with hundreds of thousands of buzzing, pollen-loving insects crawling all over you, stingers at the …

Posted September 1, 2017

An Interesting Case of Queen Acceptance

With my bee work, occasionally I find a colony whose condition is difficult to diagnose. While uniting that colony to others is a constant temptation, I would miss opportunities to see interesting bee behavior. The colony for this article began as a shook-swarm with an older queen (from another colony). The colony was in an …

Posted September 1, 2017

Comb Honey Corner

It is hot at the moment. Supers must go on the bees. One fear in the hearts of most comb honey producers is opening up a hive to check the filling of the supers and finding all is not quite right. This afternoon the heat index is about 110°. It is the perfect time to …

Posted September 1, 2017

Evolution of Honey Bee Nest Defense

Last month I talked about honey bee colony defense and explained how stinging is simply the culminating act of a cascade of previous actions in which worker bees detect a threat to the nest, appraise it, alert nestmates to the hazard, direct a number of threatening acts toward the invader, and attack the invader only …

Posted September 1, 2017

September 2017

The Living Hive: A Sculpture Built by Bees Elsabe Dixon…………………………………………………………………………931 The Varroa Problem—Part 10—Smokin’-hot Mite Washin’ Randy Oliver…………………………………………………………………………949 Collecting and Caring for the Wild Hive T’Lee Sollenberger……………………………………………………………………965 Stimulative Feeding vs. Maintenance Feeding of Honey Bees—Facts and Thoughts Larry Coble……………………………………………………………………………969 Insights into Honey Bee Pollination in the Pacific Northwest Ramesh Sagili and Dewey M. Caron…………………………………………………973 An …

Posted September 1, 2017

September ABJ Cover

This field bee landed on the thumb of Western Australian beekeeper Kay Cotterell as she was working her hives. The red finger nail polish, shady background and golden bee provided wonderful contrast in the macro shot Kay took. The shot also won her the Western Australian Apiarist Society (WAAS) silver medal for best photograph 2017. …

Left shaker box is made from a bee box. The right shaker box is made from riveted galvanized sheet metal to keep the surface somewhat slippery.

Posted August 1, 2017

Re-Queening Hot Hives

Spring sprung early here in North Central Texas. In fact, Old Man Winter kind of did a skip, hop and a jump, taking his wares back to Canada. No snow, no ice storms. Very boring indeed! So, the belly flowers bloomed early, cute little bluets, the foreteller of spring. The bees were soooo happy! Warm …

Posted August 1, 2017

The Classroom – August 2017

Q Wax Moth Migration …. Nope A friend of mine in the bee club said that she knows when the wax moths fly in the spring… it’s when, here in the north, oak leaf bud is the size of squirrel’s ear. Have you heard that before? B in Ohio A As we enter the late …

Exposure to Neonics Results in Early Death for Honey bee Workers and Queens, York U Study

Posted September 1, 2017