Q AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES Many moons ago, you may or may have not written a letter to a queen breeder in Arizona about the queens mailed to a beekeeper in FL, who, as I recall, ended up with such “hot” hives, he had to call in reinforcements from your department to help him deal with …
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One of our readers wanted to know why I am experimenting making a new two-queen system instead of simply using the existing tried and true management scheme already incorporated for many years to have two-queen systems: a traditional hive that incorporates a double screen and an extra hive body? With this traditional two-queen system, the …
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I travel quite a bit, giving lectures about bees to various interested groups. One of the lectures that gets requested of me quite often is the one that I give on superorganisms. This is a topic that I have found quite interesting myself, after being introduced to it about 15 or so years ago. At …
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For several months I’ve been talking about the honey bee colony as a superorganism: a group of individuals living together and resembling what humans would call a “society,” but which for various reasons is better understood as a special case of organism. For one thing, the group as a whole, not the individuals that make …
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Having survived the winter, bees begin foraging with the return of warm temperatures. Even before the early spring flowers yield nectar and pollen in abundance, the colony has begun rearing brood, jump-starting their population growth even in the cold of winter. That is one advantage of wintering as a large warm family unit, instead of …
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Saskatoon serviceberry, Saskatoon berry, Western service berry, Saskatoon, June berry, shadbush, poirier, petites poires; Cusick’s serviceberry (a particular variety) Scientific name: Amelanchier alnifolia Synonyms: Amelanchier cusickii, Amelanchier florida Origin: The species is native to at least North America Plant description: Amelanchier alnifolia is a clustered shrub or small tree generally with a height of 2-5m …
Read MoreObituary—Colin Butler, Entomologist Telegraph Media Group Limited…………………………………………………………..261 Following the Wild Bees—Tom Seeley on Honeybee Democracy, Responsible Swarm Trapping and His New Book Leo Sharashkin………………………………………………………………………………287 Understanding Colony Buildup and Decline—Part 10—Summer Downsizing and Varroa Randy Oliver…………………………………………………………………………………..293 BIP Takes on a NASA Project—How Big Data Can Inform the Way We Keep Bees and How We Can Opt …
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Emily Anderson Brown of Scottsdale, AZ prepares to remove a swarm from a tree. Read Emily’s inspiring story, Born to Be a Beekeeper, by Mary and Bill Weaver in this issue beginning on page 309.
Read MoreFollowing President Obama’s call for pollinator assessment, first-ever national bee map shows much farmland at risk UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT The first national study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they’re disappearing in many of the country’s most important farmlands–including California’s Central Valley, the Midwest’s corn belt, and the Mississippi River valley. If losses of these …
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UNITED STATES What kind of weather winter will bring has been anyone’s guess, but long-range forecasts have predicted a continuation of milder weather with short periods of much colder and sometimes snowy conditions. The fall was mostly mild over much of the country, but sometimes quite stormy. The rain was welcome to replenish ground moisture, …
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