In June this year I was invited to visit Nigeria for three weeks to teach queen rearing at an agricultural college, Umuebe Farms and Farms College, in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. I had heard, like most people, of the threat posed by Africanized “killer” bees in the southern U.S., and as West Africa is home to …
Read MoreFrom Jerry As we all know, keeping honey bees not only alive but healthy and contributing to your management goals is tough and tougher for new beekeepers who haven’t learned that beekeeping is a visual sport. You have to be able to see, compare and contrast and that requires sampling and surveying and then having …
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UNITED STATES As we indicated last month, the U.S. honey crop is going to be smaller this season due to earlier drought conditions in Florida, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. On the bright side, some later reports indicate better honey crops in the Upper Midwest than earlier predicted. On the other hand, very hot, …
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There has been a huge amount of interest in the extended-release application of oxalic acid for controlling varroa. I and my collaborators have been working hard to collect the data necessary get this treatment approved for use by U.S. beekeepers. We’ve still got lots to learn, but here’s an update. Disclaimer and legality: The information …
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As autumn comes upon us, the nights become cold while warm afternoons seem to cling to fleeting memories of summer. Ever vigilant all through the heat of summer, the bees have protected their precious combs by constantly patrolling them. Now after sunset, the invading cold comes. The bees must withdraw from the outer realm of …
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One day early in my career I was lecturing a beekeeping group in London on the topic of Varroa mite IPM. I had just covered the so-called “drone brood trapping” method. The beekeeper inserts a comb of drone cells, lets the bees fill it up with drone brood, and after it’s capped removes the comb …
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A few years ago, we had a series of experiments with two attempts at 2-queen colonies. The first experiment involved a long hive. The idea was to have one colony on one side and a second colony on the other side with a shared space in the middle. It worked out quite well for the …
Read MoreWelcome Kirsten Traynor, our New Editor……………………………………………………1021 International Honey Market Update Norberto Garcia and Ron Phipps……………………………………………………………1043 Hives for Humanity: Using Bees to Create Social Change in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, BC Alison McAfee…………………………………………………………………………………1051 The Varroa Problem—Part 11—The Math of the Mite Randy Oliver…………………………………………………………………………………1071 Honey Bee Nutrition—Part 5 Dale Hill……………………………………………………………………………………….1081 Bee Biology Overview Lawrence John Connor………………………………………………………………………1085 …
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October Cover Picture The SW of Western Australia has the advantage of amazing views of the Milky Way star clusters above remote apiaries, not something you see in the Northern Hemisphere. This photo is of beekeeper Kay Cotterell admiring the amazing Milky Way above a remote Banksia forest apiary site. The photograph, aptly named Cosmic …
Read MoreQ WINGLESS WASP OR DEFORMED WING VIRUS? Jerry, I came upon this wasp with no wings. I have numerous honey bee colonies nearby and have, on occasion, had cases of Deformed Wing Virus affect some of my honey bees. Can DWV affect other Hymenoptera? Are you aware of other explanations for the lack of wings …
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