A long road: Springtime seems a long road ahead for much of the country. But on warm days, your bees are already out searching for early-blooming maples, elms and other pollen sources that will jump-start brood rearing for the coming season. Our cover photo was taken in January 2022 by Cheryl Burkhead of Berryton, Kansas.
Read MoreIt happens all the time Yes, it does frequently happen that you or I are asked to give a short overview of some aspect of honey bee biology or behavior. Maybe I’m sitting by a stranger on a plane flight. Maybe someone at church remarks that you’re the bee guy and then a question ensues …
Read MoreBee classes are filling up and the new year is beginning. Those going into beekeeping for the first time are expecting some form of pleasure with eager questions for information. One can see it in their actions and faces. As the above weather map of the United States in January shows, there is not much …
Read MorePretty much every beekeeper in my orbit is asking me about Tropilaelaps mercedesae (from here forward called Tropilaelaps; see Photo 1). In fact, as I sit down to write this month’s column, outgoing American Beekeeping Federation (ABF) president Dan Winter just left the Dyce Lab and Tropilaelaps was a big part of our conversation for …
Read MoreHere I release the first results of one of my classified projects. These projects are serious scientific bee research endeavors usually with a high risk of failure (that is, finding nothing worth reporting). If a classified project works, however, the results could be useful from a basic science perspective (exploration) or from an applied science …
Read MoreQ: 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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