It is early spring as I write this article. I am working on bee equipment. This season I have decided to do something that I have wanted to do for a long time. I will build a long hive. As the saying goes, times (things) change but people don’t. What has changed is that when …
Read MoreIn my column last month, I discussed the terminology associated with the members of a honey bee colony. In the present article, I am going to introduce you to terminology associated with the hive and its various components. I put the important new terms in bold font so that you know exactly what I am …
Read MoreQ Pollination Hopefully you can help us out, we need your expertise. Yesterday we were discussing the best way for beehive placement in fennel seed production in Chile. Fennel is an attractive crop to the bees. In the production manual it was mentioned: “The opening of the hives should be placed towards the crop. The …
Read MoreAll beekeepers need a source of queens for several reasons. The most obvious is to increase their number of colonies. This can be done by making splits or creating nucleus colonies. Replacing a poor quality queen or and old queen are other uses for new queens. Queens are available from numerous excellent queen breeders in …
Read MoreRecently I had just two minutes to gather my thoughts after being asked to give a talk about ‘preparing for an apiary visit’ at a training program. There are many days when I work bees, but I rarely think much about ‘preparing’ for the visit since I keep bees near the barn where just about …
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In 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 MoreSummer losses eclipse winter losses for the first time on record UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Beekeepers across the United States lost more than 40 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year spanning April 2014 to April 2015, according to the latest results of an annual nationwide survey. While winter loss rates improved slightly compared …
Read MoreStrategy Highlights Coalition as Platform for Public-Private Coordination to Accelerate, Achieve Task Force Goals [Keystone, Colorado, May 19, 2015] – The Honey Bee Health Coalition applauded the announcement of the National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and other Pollinators (https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/18/announcing-new-steps-promote-pollinator-health) and the accompanying Pollinator Research Action Plan, released today by President Barack …
Read MorePoplar, Aspen, Cottonwood in general Scientific name: Populus sp. From the beekeeper’s perspective members of this group of plants seems much the same and here are treated as a group. Synonyms: In my view, taxonomically the genus Populus is a bit messy. My interpretation of the USDA Plants website[21] is that it currently lists a mix of 25 …
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Photographer Michael LaSpina of Lincoln, CA took this excellent photo of a honey bee working his organic lavender. We thank him for sharing it with our readers.
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