First I must thank Jerry Hayes. His Classroom questions and answers often inspire my Beekeeping Topics and that will be the case this time. At some point in the Comb Honey Corner, I touched on this topic. At that writing we covered the topic but only as it related to comb honey production. The topic …
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Scientific name: Ulmus americana (Ulmaceae) Synonyms: Ulmus floridana Origin: North America The USDA Plants Website[18] lists five native Ulmus species. I have chosen to write primarily about Ulmus americana for several reasons. In the beekeeping literature where the full species name is provided, it is this species that seems the most often mentioned. It is …
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More beekeepers need to use bee stocks that do not require miticides to control varroa mites. There may be a different race, selected stock or improved queen strain that meets your needs to mate with the best of your localized survivor bees. My intention is not to eliminate anyone’s locally adapted, survivor stock. If you …
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This great photo was taken by Clarke Sutphin of Billings, Montana. It shows a LeFore Honey Farms Crew placing pallets of bees in a blooming California almond grove near Hughson, CA. This scene is typical of hundreds of beekeeping operations placing nearly two million colonies in the California almond groves this month.
Read MoreThe Varroa Problem—Part 5—Striking a Deal with Varroa Randy Oliver…………………………………………………………………………………..147 Improved Stock Lawrence John Connor………………………………………………………………………155 Surveying and Reporting Bee Losses William Blomstedt……………………………………………………………………………..167 Pesticide Policy Proposal for Pollinators Michele Colopy…………………………………………………………………………………173 Building Decorative Hive Tops Andy Hemken………………………………………………………………………………….181 Experimenting with Bees Successfully Tina Seybestyen………………………………………………………………………………..189 Hobby Beekeeping and the Law—Issues to Consider Rich Schell………………………………………………………………………………………193 Exclusivity [or Not] Howard Scott…………………………………………………………………………………..197
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Recently Krispn Given was promoted to Apiculture Specialist at Purdue University, for the past thirteen years Krispn has been working with Dr. Greg Hunt at Purdue University’s department of entomology. His responsibilities include, maintaining the 120 research colonies, running the Purdue honey bee breeding program, teaching an annual queen rearing short course, managing the honey …
Read MoreQ Jerry, I’ve been beekeeping for about 3 years. I have been lucky to have help from a veteran beekeeper. I had noticed a mite problem in a few of my hives so I treated with an unnamed acid strip. I had split off a few hives and installed new queens after treating for seven …
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UNITED STATES As reported by author Ron Phipps in his excellent “International Honey Market Update” this month, “If the combination of 1) more powerful and sophisticated technologies for assessing adulteration and 2) climate change and other environmental factors reducing both total production and productivity/hive of honey manifest themselves during 2017 and 2018, it will become …
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University of Exeter Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when deciding where to forage for pollen, research by the University of Exeter suggests. The researchers believe pollen-collecting bees do not base their foraging decisions on taste alone, but instead make an “overall sensory assessment” of their experience at a particular …
Read MoreEarlham Institute, Norwich, England Particularly under threat are honey bees, which are as vital to our food systems as the crops they pollinate, and which are prone to a range of emergent diseases including Moku and Deformed wing virus (DWV). The Moku virus was identified on Moku Island in Hawaii through a collaboration of institutes …
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