We think of the modern queen rearing industry in America as a southern enterprise with important western and Hawaiian contributions. In the 1800’s queen rearing was done mostly in the northeast before its southern shift. Back then to increase queen production, beekeepers needed new methods besides simply dequeening colonies and harvesting the resulting emergency queen …
Read MoreAmong the many “Wow I didn’t know that” moments that confront a new beekeeper is the lesson that a worker bee dies after she delivers a sting. It’s true. Her barbed stinger implants in the skin of her adversary like a harpoon, tears away as she leaves, and its attached poison sac keeps throbbing away …
Read MoreI was asked by my friends at the local beekeeping club and some of our master garden students to address the issue of pesticide exposure avoidance for honey bees. The reason this article is appropriate now is that planning ahead is essential to avoiding pesticide kills of honey bees. I reside in an area where …
Read MoreBeekeeping is not a free endeavor. Very few people inherit bees and all of the equipment needed to keep them. There are costs associated with becoming a beekeeper, and these costs can be unpredictable to, and perhaps unanticipated by, the new beekeeper. I sympathize with new beekeepers. They often jump right into an endeavor that …
Read MoreQ Fungicides in Bee Hive Paint I have a suspicion that fungicides that are used in paints are contributing to CCD. What are your thoughts? Harold in Missouri A Thank you for the interesting question about fungicides in exterior paint and possible contribution to CCD. It sparked a curiosity and opinion if you don’t mind. Here …
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Spring is the busiest time of the beekeeping year. Anything you can do to improve your work productivity and increase colony efficiency is an absolute necessity. Every experienced beekeeper has an assortment of tricks and shortcuts acquired through years of practice and experience. Unfortunately a large portion of this information never makes it into print …
Read MoreFirestone, Colo., January 15, 2015 – The National Honey Board (NHB), an industry-funded agriculture promotion group, announced that the Board has unanimously selected Margaret Lombard as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective December 29, 2014. Lombard succeeds the NHB’s past CEO Bruce Boynton who announced his desire to retire in early 2014 after almost 26 years …
Read MoreAs one of the possible causes of honey bee losses, the gut pathogen Nosema ceranae has proved controversial. It seems accountable for colony losses in Spain, yet elsewhere it seems not to cause obvious problems despite being widespread. Two papers published recently in the Journal of Apicultural Research help to shed some light on the problem, with close studies …
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The cover picture for this issue is actually a beautiful watercolor work by artist Jim Whiteside. Jim donated the painting and it was purchased at the American Beekeeping Federation Convention auction this year for $700 by Mary and Dave Mendes from Florida. Read more on page 233.
Read MoreThe family Borginaceae consists of about 100 genera and 2000 species of mostly herbs and some shrubs and climbers. The family is found on all continents including Antarctica, but is generally from temperate and tropical parts of the world. About 22 genera are native to the U.S., many of them in the west. The plants …
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