THE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 597 BEEKEEPING BASICS Responding to Disease in Honey Bee Colonies Tina Sebestyen – 603 Organic Colony Management: Chemical varroa products approved for organic use Selina Bruckner, Laura C. McHenry, Robyn M. Underwood, Margarite M. López-Uribe – 607 A Surprising Finding About Bee Venom Randy Oliver – 611 The Beehive Apothecary: …
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Jane Sueme took this photo at an apiary she shares with Bob Finck in St.Louis County, Missouri. “We imagine the bees enjoying this bucolic oasis in the middle of civilization on this 4th-generation family farm. Honey bee hives have been maintained here for 20+ years where the bees take advantage of the nearby Meramac River …
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Q: What is white honey Is “white honey” a real thing? A friend brought this [***] in to enjoy with coffee and it is from Kyrgyzstan. I have never heard of it and your articles on contamination of honey sourced from China make me suspect of anything not from known beekeepers locally. Trevor Wolf Ohio, …
Read MoreSummer weather I’ve been reading long-term weather predictions and it looks like parts of our country are due for a long, hot summer. It will be hot for our bees, too. I suppose that I can write that every living organism requires water in some form. Honey bees’ requirements seem to be driven by two …
Read MoreEver since I became a columnist for the American Bee Journal — back in 2017 — my husband, Rich, has been clipping columns from various old-car magazines and leaving them on my desk. He rates the writing as good or bad, funny or sad. Whatever comes to mind. This annoyed me at first — I …
Read MoreOn this topic — the queen and her quality — many beekeeper mistakes are possible. It can be difficult to ascertain the true cause of apparent deficiencies in colony health that appear to be the fault of the queen. Sometimes, the need for queen replacement seems cut and dried, such as when a colony is …
Read MoreLast month we examined The Beekeepers’ Advance, a journal that flourished briefly in the late 1880s, largely due to its editor James B. Mason. That journal was from the state of Maine in the upper northeast of the country. Now let’s move westward, across the continent, to California and Washington state, and turn the clock …
Read MoreHeating hives in winter For more than 60 years, my work and passion have been dedicated to apiculture. During this long period, I have observed that the greatest challenge for many beekeepers is not honey production, but successful wintering of colonies. Three years ago I moved from Albania to the United States, mainly to the …
Read MoreInishturk Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland — March 23, 2026 A remote island community off Ireland’s west coast is set to become home to the country’s first dedicated native honey bee sanctuary, in a project aimed at protecting one of Europe’s most threatened pollinators. The initiative, approved by the Inishturk Community Development Company, will see the …
Read MoreWeb-based mapping tool for beekeepers, crop producers, and pesticide applicators WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (February 17, 2026) — FieldWatch, Inc., a nonprofit company that promotes communication and stewardship among crop producers, beekeepers and pesticide applicators, announces that Vermont has joined as the 32nd geography. Vermont joins FieldWatch along with 27 other states, three Canadian provinces and …
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