Winter is coming. The bitter-cold time for bees brings an intriguing sight, a rainbow beauty within the hive, but there’s a hitch. One needs to see heat in the dark hive, and to detect its subtle variations, from frozen to cool to warm and so on to more intense temperatures, even to hot. That requires …
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I knew Bergmann’s rule before I’d even heard of it. And I bet most of my readers do too. My epiphany came on one of my trips back home to Indiana after I had moved to Louisiana to go to school at LSU. It was my first trip back to Indiana during summer-time, the previous …
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“That dichotomous choice is exactly the problem – it’s not dichotomous. ‘Treatment’ is assumed to mean using synthetic acaricides. We need to use the words ‘control’ or ‘mitigation’. The opposite is not doing anything.” David Tarpy The mite. Beekeepers don’t need to specify which of the 48,200 known mite species, even though there are 86 …
Read MoreInternational Honey Market Ron Phipps………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1091 Understanding Colony Buildup and Decline—Part 13d—The Impact of Parasites Randy Oliver…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1113 Varroa Mite Monitoring—Using a Sugar Roll to Identify Populations of Varroa destructor in Honey Bee Colonies Meghan Milbrath……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1119 100% Overwintering Success in Ohio Tom and Fran Davidson……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1125 Bomb vs Bondb—Varroa Treatment/Nontreatment: The Twain Do Meet, and Let Us Count …
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October Cover Picture This is a painting of the original Homestead Honey Company’s apiary painted by Corey Behlke’s Dad’s cousin, Dave Behlke. The painting served as an inspiration for Homestead Honey’s neck tags used on many of their honey containers. Read the Homestead Apiaries story by Mary and Bill Weaver starting on page 1149.
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At this time, our bees are well into the honey flow. Between swarms and colony collapse there are some difficulties with many hives making honey surplus in my apiary as well. There are a few single colonies that are filling their third comb honey super. Unfortunately, the two-queen hive has swarmed from both sides. We …
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Honey crops in the southern U.S. have generally been better than last season with some notable exceptions pointed out by our reporters who live in locations hit with earlier unsettled weather and excessive rains that were then followed by excessive heat and humidity later in the summer. Beekeepers were hoping that late summer and fall …
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Air pollutants interact with and break down plant-emitted scent molecules, which insect pollinators use to locate needed food, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State. The pollution-modified plant odors can confuse bees and, as a result, bees’ foraging time increases and pollination efficiency decreases. This happens because the chemical interactions decrease both …
Read MoreObservation hives have been used to study the behavior of honey bees since the pioneering studies of François Huber in the 18th century. Observation hives generally consist of glass walled hives containing a small number of combs and bees. A frequent objection to their use is that they are usually housed and observed in daylight …
Read MoreCOMMENT ON CASTES QUESTION I read with intrigue, your answer to the question about castes. I probably would have answered the same way, but we both would be wrong. Darwin, in his book “Origin of the Species” refers to castes to distinguish between the different types of workers, not the different sexes. Diana Wheeler, writing …
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