Pesticide use ia a major driver of continent-wide declines of hundreds of wild bee species in the USA

Posted December 1, 2024

Pesticide use ia a major driver of continent-wide declines of hundreds of wild bee species in the USA

Every 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 …

Posted December 1, 2024

The Intrinsic Value of the Bee Supply Catalog

A few weeks ago, I picked up yet another bee supply catalog at a meeting. No big excitement there. After all, like phone books, we get a new one every year. Normally, I flip through them to see the expected listings with a few new products, but rarely are my socks knocked off at some …

Posted December 1, 2024

Beekeeping Experience with Other Hives

Working with different hive designs helps build versatility in one’s apicultural experience. Currently I am trying out different prototypes of long hives. A long hive has frames in a long horizontal row (see Figures 1 and 2). Sometimes in my studies I need easy access to the cluster from above, particularly in the winter. In …

Posted December 1, 2024

December

December is the last month of the year, and Charles Butler, who authored “The Feminine Monarchie; Or The Historie of Bees” in 1609, wrote: Bees lie still in their Hives, passing this fruitlesse time in sleepe and slumber, yet on milde and warme hours, they flie. Bees are not quite as Butler described them sleeping …

Posted December 1, 2024

The Perils of Pyrethroids for Pollinator

Just after 9 p.m., the faint rumble of a mosquito truck tumbles through the open windows of my South Dakota home. As the sound gets louder, I drop my book and scramble to close everything, slamming windows and doors to keep the fog outside. Sometimes I watch as the truck thunders by, spewing poisonous white …

Posted December 1, 2024

Letters to the Editor – December 2024

Getting the most out of a hive I really enjoy the American Bee Journal. Thanks for the great magazine. I want to encourage the writers that are veteran honey producers to share their way of getting the most out of their hives. I’m sure you have a wealth of knowledge the rest of us could …

Posted December 1, 2024

USDA INVESTS $5.7 MILLION IN POLLINATOR HEALTH

June 5, 2024 – NIFA [the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture] has announced more than $5.7 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Pollinator Health: Research and Application program. The program supports projects focused on promoting healthy populations of pollinators in agricultural systems where reliance on pollinators for pollination services is …

Posted December 1, 2024

BEES ABROAD LAUNCHES IN THE USA

Bees Abroad, a U.K.-based nonprofit specializing in overseas beekeeping, has officially launched in the United States. For over 25 years, Bees Abroad has empowered communities around the world through beekeeping, offering hands-on training in beekeeping techniques and related skills. Several factors led to the decision for Bees Abroad to launch in the U.S.; last year …

Posted December 1, 2024

Contents – December 2024

International Honey Market Report Ron Phipps – 1275 A History of the Discoveries About the Sexuality of the Honey Bee Frédéric Eggers e Villepin – 1297 News from the American Honey Producers Chris Hiatt – 1311 What’s Blooming in Your Neck of the Woods? December Ed Szymanski – 1319 The Yellow-legged Hornet: An Invasive Species …

Pesticide use ia a major driver of continent-wide declines of hundreds of wild bee species in the USA

Posted December 1, 2024