Q: Exclusions Cages As I prepare for the upcoming season, I have bought some exclusion cages to hold my queens. My goal is to use them for 14-day brood breaks to help control Varroa, followed by oxalic acid treatment. However, I am wondering if these cages might also be suitable for banking mated queens within …
Read MoreI carried a tattered Amazon box from the cabinet above the wooden trap door to the kitchen counter. The box was leaden, brimming with tools my husband had gathered the last time he visited our “project house” in South Dakota. Just then, I needed a tool to lift an ancient tack strip from a wooden …
Read MoreSmall-Scale vs. Commercial Management Regarding October’s article by Eric Talley, “Should Small-scale Beekeepers Manage their Colonies Like Commercial Beekeepers Do?”: Thank you for putting into words the answers to so many practices we are unfortunately met with at the beekeeper association level that primarily serve the backyard beekeeper. As an educator of beginners and intermediate …
Read MoreThe University of Colorado Boulder’s Peleg Lab and University of Arizona’s Experimental Philosopher Jonathon Keats are seeking insights from beekeepers for their research on honey bee perception and behavior. Share your unique experiences and observations with us by participating in our Beekeeping Questionnaire at https://www.peleglab.com/beesurvey. Your feedback will help inform new scientific inquiries into how …
Read MoreThe Journal of Insect Science partnered with the American Association of Professional Apiculturists and the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists to publish a special collection of scientific articles on recent research on honey bees: Current Honey Bee Research: Investigating Micro and Macro Aspects of Health and Sociobiology. The articles are open source, so everyone can …
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ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) has received confirmation from the USDA that the first detection of spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula or SLF), an invasive planthopper that poses a serious risk to the state’s agriculture, was made in Fulton County, Georgia on October 22, 2024, and confirmed by USDA APHIS on November …
Read MoreWinter Reads Rusty Burlew, Dewey M. Caron, Carol Hrusovsky, Eugene Makovec, Tina Sebestyen – 23 Highbush Blueberry Pollination Survey Miriam Bixby – 41 A History of the Discoveries About the Sexuality of the Honey Bee – Part 3 Frédéric Eggers de Villepin – 53 The Healing Power of Honey: A Review of its Benefits in …
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Winter respite: This month’s cover comes to us from Paul Landsberg of Clinton, Missouri. The photo was taken at his home yard last January, shortly before the trek to California for almond pollination.
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Q: How to store uncapped honey? I have a super that is full, but it is not capped. I have been told you can freeze it for 48 hours, remove it from the freezer, place in a black plastic bag, and then store it away for spring. Your thoughts? Fred Giardinelli Schenectady, New York September …
Read MoreEvery once in a while a scientific study comes along that improves our understanding of a topic by leaps and bounds. While it’s well established that pesticides cause problems for bees, the scope of the problem is often what’s argued over. Are a few bees dying here and there from occasional harmful pesticide exposure, or …
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