How Bees Use Beeswax in the Beehive A Swarm’s Rapid Beeswax Production When a swarm leaves the parent colony, the individual worker bees engorge with honey to carry with them to their new nest site. While this honey serves to keep the swarm alive during the move to the new location—a period of a few …
Read MoreIntroduction When I was a graduate student in the later 1960’s my major professor, Dr. E.C. Bert Martin, taught his students that only big strong colonies are suitable for wintering. Smaller colonies should be stacked up and combined, so the combined populations would insure winter survival. Bert wanted a minimum of 60 pounds on each …
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The Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth is remembered chiefly for the hive that bears his name, the Langstroth hive. However, its design is based on his most important discovery: bee space. What is this space and what is so important about it? A Little History People have been aware of this space for as long as honey …
Read MoreThe upcoming book, Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World, truly is unique, giving the reader a new way to appreciate and marvel at these “mvps” (most valuable pollinators, of course!). Authors Sam Droege and Laurence Packer present more than 100 of the most eye-catching bees from around the world as you’ve never …
Read MoreThe Trust was set-up by Dr Eva Crane in 2002 and is a grant-giving charity. It also aims to be a portal to information of interest to beekeepers and bee scientists The web site www.evacranetrust.org has been in operation for some time but since May 12th it has become easier to use and offers an …
Read MoreAn International Conference on the Safety and Authenticity of Bee Products Istanbul, Turkey 21/22 May 2015 This was the first international congress to focus solely on food and safety issues associated with the authenticity of bee products including honey, royal jelly, pollen and propolis. It was held under the auspices of Istanbul Technical University, Yildiz …
Read MoreWorldwide the Geraniaceae consists of about 750-800 species of mainly annual and perennial herbs, a few subshrubs, and rarely woody, and then generally soft woody plants. The leaves are usually alternately, occasionally oppositely arranged, and are often palmately though sometimes pinnately veined. The pubescence is often glandular.1 The flowers are generally regular (generally more or …
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Beekeeper/Photographer Bill Mondjack of Mondjack Apiaries in Pennsylvania took this great photograph of a honey bee on a Knapweed blossom. Regarded as an invasive species and noxious weed by conservationists, knapweed often blooms and provides surplus honey late in the season when there are few other plants blooming.
Read MoreIn the previous article, we covered basic small hive beetle biology. This article concentrates more on protecting colonies from small hive beetles and showing how just the adult beetles can destroy small-sized colonies. Keeping colonies strong is the general recommendation for protecting them from small hive beetle invasion of their brood combs. However in the …
Read MoreFor the last few months I’ve been unpacking a natural history of the western honey bee Apis mellifera with the aim of pointing out clues for modern beekeeping along the way. The practical clues have been few to this point because we’ve been dealing with the most fundamental groundwork of the species – its morphology …
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