Worldwide 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 …
Read MoreIt 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 …
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