The City of Bee Cave, Texas’s second annual “Books and Bees Festival” was a big hit this April 1-2, with support from The American Bee Journal. In what is now a two-day event, Saturday focused on pollinator education and Sunday’s “Honey Fest” showcased the talents of local beekeepers. With over 2000 attendees on Saturday alone, …
Read MoreMother of Invention: Where there’s a need, there’s a way Elaine Timm – 611 A Year as a Commercial Beekeeper — June Charles Linder – 615 A Marginal-land Makeover Plan to Help Pollinators Eleanor Schumacher – 627 New Ideas and Inventions Peter L Borst – 631 Can Drone-based Removal be a Successful Strategy in Reducing …
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Little Beekeeper: Milana Lipscomb turned 6 last June shortly before our cover photo was taken. Her mom, Christina Lipscomb, says she loves to help tend the bees in their back yard in Pelham, North Carolina. “She helped shake them in when we first got them and has been hooked ever since. She has gotten stung …
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Q Temperatures that kill wax moths and small hive beetles I am trying to look up the minimum temperatures at which small hive beetles (SHBs) and wax moths can no longer survive so that I can minimize my expenditures on prevention. It is 7:30 a.m. now and it is 50°F (10°C) outside. I understand that …
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In the previous article, we made a detailed examination of reversing hive bodies, which is a method to maintain colony growth in the spring. To review briefly, by early spring some clusters have ascended up under the cover, leaving empty combs below. Up under the hive cover, colony growth can stall. In a vertical hive …
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Last fall, I took my two dogs for a walk in the woods behind my house. The black Labrador mix came home with 56 ticks (my daughters meticulously counted as we pulled them off of her!). The Boston terrier came home with only one tick. I could have predicted my Lab would bring home more …
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When we consider planting for pollinators, we often focus on crop plants or garden flowers that bloom at eye level or below. These range from tiny forget-me-nots to swaths of clover to prickly jungles of raspberries. For whatever reason, we rarely consider trees for our pollinator gardens. We may think trees are slow to grow, …
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These seasonal events are complicated simplicity First and foremost — the “nectar flow” If you are new to beekeeping, the primary nectar flow is the period, in your area, when major nectar-producing plants do their seasonal flowering thing. It’s why beekeepers constantly make plans for this intensive part of the year. Oh yes, it’s a …
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Today’s menu specials! Teresa Munn sent this photo from East Texas, about midway between Canton and Athens. Taken with her iPhone (which she also used to call the Editor), the image provides a beautiful contrast between incoming pollens. Teresa said it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact pollen sources during the first week of March when …
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Researchers find that learning and culture are needed for one of the most intricate forms of communication known outside humans Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. While widely evident in species ranging from human infants to …
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