On the 12th day of the Christmas: A royal retinue! Jennifer Rasico of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, just took “a quick photo” for her bee-curious neighbors, and accidentally captured this classic queen retinue. They’re not always this cooperative, but it sure makes Her Majesty easy to find!
Read MoreQ: Spotted Lanternflies Recently spotted lanternflies have started to make a frequent appearance where I live in Southwestern Virginia. I have read that they have been spreading in the U.S. for the past decade, but I am just now hearing about them. A lot of people I know are worried about what their impact could …
Read MoreThe cost of a screened bottom board is not that different from that of an assembled and painted solid one, though the Ultimate Screened Bottom Board1 (well worth the money) is a bit more, so the real question is, which one is better for my bees, and will it help keep mite numbers low? We …
Read MoreBack in 2023, a paper appeared in the Journal of Economic Entomology about how honey bee colonies exposed to sunflower pollen had fewer varroa mites than colonies not exposed to sunflowers.1 The story got a truckload of press, and beekeepers all over North America were told that scattering a few sunflower seeds around their apiaries …
Read MoreI want to tell you a bee swarm story I have a swarm story that I have relived many times, but it requires some painful background. I want to tell you the tale here. My wife went through a debilitating illness for a bit more than three years. I readily devoted most of my time …
Read MoreThis article shows some of my work with bees from the apiary to the bee house. Here I am handling bees that ordinarily would be merely united with another colony under normal beekeeping practices. Here, the reader can see how I handle bees when I want to study other options. During the spring of 2025, …
Read MoreComment on USDA Reorganization The proposed closing of BARC [The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center], the decentralization and dismantling of USDA will be devastating to agriculture, threatens our food supply, the $15 billion value of crops dependent upon honey bee pollination. This highly collaborative research team, with its global reach addresses the multifaceted, complex threats and …
Read MoreSeeing impacts from your research can be a long, laborious and tedious process. But testing a hypothesis and discovering a fact that ends up impacting everyday people — that’s a crowning achievement for a scientist. University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Assistant professor Cameron Jack was able to do just that. After …
Read MoreSeptember 25, 2025 — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing a final registration decision for one technical and two end use products containing the new pesticide active ingredient Vadescana for control against varroa mites (Varroa destructor) in honey bee hives. EPA prioritizes pesticide applications that target varroa mites to provide beekeepers with a …
Read MoreTHE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 1181 BEEKEEPING BASICS Screened Bottom Boards, Honey Bees, and Mites Tina Sebestyen – 1187 Do Bees Survive a Sugar Shake? Mary Woolford, Robyn Underwood, Jennifer Tsuruda, Geoffrey Williams and Selina Bruckner – 1191 Sustainable Beekeeping Using Stock Derived from a Local Feral Population Kevin J. Gross – 1195 THE CURIOUS …
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