COMMENT: Kale Honey Jerry, Attached are 2 pictures of my Kale field. This was somewhat of a mistake two years ago as I allowed some Kale to go to seed. The bloom time on this lasts about 3 weeks and peaks for about 10 days (pending weather). Frost seeding in mid to late October seems …
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Scientific name: Trifolium campestre (Hop clover, field clover) and Trifolium aureum (Large hop clover, golden clover). In the beekeeping literature, these two species are frequently handled together. This is the way I handle them here. Synonyms: Hop clover: Trifolium campestre was once called Trifolium procumbens. Large hop clover: Trifolium aureum was once called Trifolium agrarium. …
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When walking up to an apiary, a good beekeeping skill is to let your vision sweep across the hives seeing how the bees flow through the air. When bees are making honey, the bee traffic should stream from the entrances up into the sky or over into nearby fields. The apiary flight pattern is similar …
Read MoreLast month I talked about the evolution of body size which, when it comes to the superorganism, translates to the number of cells (workers) making up the body (colony). When it comes to the honey bee superorganism, it’s reasonable to say that big is good. This is true whether you’re talking about a natural colony …
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As of this writing one of my colonies collapsed with two-half filled supers of comb honey on board. The brood chamber is producing wax moths. The supers have small hive beetles in them. My solution will be to separate the boxes and let nature take its course. The brood frames will have the wired wax …
Read MoreThe Varroa Problem—Part I Randy Oliver………………………………………………………………………………….1233 Bomb vs Bond—Non-chemical Varroa Treatment Options—Part II M.E.A. McNeil………………………………………………………………………………..1239 Honey Bee Colony Losses: What’s Happening in South America? Fabrice Requier, Nancy Garcia, Georg Andersson, Facundo Oddi, Lucas A. Garibaldi…… ……………………………………………………………………………………………1247 Making and Maintaining Connections: Networking: Personal, Social, Corporate Lawrence John Connor………………………………………………………………………125 The Ethics of Honey Selling Howard Scott…………………………………………………………………………………1259 Charlie …
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Currently, a third to a half of managed honey bee colonies is lost every winter in Europe (Potts et al. 2010a) and North America (Seitz et al., 2016). This decline in managed honey bees threatens honey production and crop pollination service in many countries (Potts et al. 2016), leading to concerns for negative social, economic …
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Kris Hurlbert sent us this beautiful apiary photo that he has entitled “Hives under a Morning Fog”. Kris said, “I thought I would send you a photo I took the other morning of our hives under a morning fog just as the sun was breaking. The more I look at it, the more it captivates …
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Bacteria in the gut of young honey bees may provide clues about the impact parasites have on bee health. That and other experimental findings were published by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Because young honey bees don’t have gut bacteria, entomologist Jay …
Read MoreResearchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago have discovered the molecular mechanism by which queen honey bees carefully control worker bees’ fertility. It has long been known that worker bees have a very limited ability to reproduce in a hive with a queen and brood present, but in their absence, a third of them will …
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