Honey Bee Comic Strip I am a middle school Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) teacher in Lakewood, Ohio, and on the side, I create educational comics. I began creating my comics as an effort to reach my struggling readers, but I have recently felt it necessary to use my skills to reach a much …
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The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service published their U.S. and state honey crop production estimates for 2015 in late March. They estimated that U.S. honey production fell 12 percent in 2015. It is notable that honey production fell in almost every large honey production state which includes North Dakota, South Dakota, California, Florida, Montana and …
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The University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences states: “For fruit or nut bearing crops, pollination can be a grower’s last chance to increase yield. All post pollination inputs, whether growth regulators, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides, are generally designed not to increase yield but to conserve losses.” AgriCultures Network writes in “Managing for …
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Michael LaSpina took this wonderful photo of a honey bee in his yard in Northern California. The flower is a Crepe-Myrtle variety known as Prairie Malus. Michael said that the bees love it!
Read MoreU.S. Honey Production Down 12 Percent in 2015 National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA……………………………………………..513 Big and Small Things to Learn from an Observation Hive, or Something to Build This Season Tina Sebestyen…………………………………………………………………………………533 Fungal Alliances Against Varroa and the Viruses They Vector M.E.A. McNeil…………………………………………………………………………………541 How to Become a Beekeeper (The Not-so-Straightforward Way): Part II—Conclusion William Blomstedt…………………………………………………………………………….553 A …
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It has been busy this spring, thinking about how to cover my Two-queen Horizontal bee hive. First, the inner covers are to be considered. When the two-queen horizontal hive is in use, the queens must be separated by a queen excluder. The queen excluder separates the two queens while allowing the workers from both colonies …
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I started keeping bees when I was 12, roughly 26 years ago. When I first started keeping bees, I was very proud of my colonies and wanted to show them off to everyone. People from my church or my grandparents’ neighbors (I kept my bees on my grandparents’ farm) would stop by while I worked …
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Last month I talked about the queen’s habit of mating with many males, storing their sperm, and using that sperm to produce daughters that are genetically diverse. This habit of multiple mating is called polyandry which, if one recalls one’s Greek means poly-many, andry-males. The opposite of this polygyny – many females, which in social …
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The Bee-Keepers Journal and National Agriculturist for the Apiary, Farm and Fireside promised a big engraved picture with every issue, right under the banner of the newspaper. The July 1870 issue showed a rough figure from American lore, legendary now, a reality back then. Overall, he was rarely illustrated or photographed. He was a bee …
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Family Convolvulaceae—The Morning -glory Family The Convolvulaceae consists of twining herbs, trees and shrubs. The family is made up of about 50 genera and between 1400-1650 species. Because of its variability the family is a little messy to deal with. Most of the trees and shrubs don’t occur in North America and are therefore of …
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