A fall feast: You’ve worked all year for this, and so have your bees. The pumpkins are gathered and ready for Thanksgiving pie. Blackberry honey is on the table and in your markets. And a blueberry melomel is bottled and beginning fermentation. This is your time to relax. Photo by Brian Boyer of Old Mines, …
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Q Filtering cartridges I have a question about the filtering cartridges used with masks during the application of formic acid and the vaporization treatment with oxalic acid. When should they be changed? At what point does their effectiveness no longer provide the necessary protection? Marie-Hélène Majeau Québec, August A These are very important questions. All …
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In the previous article, we observed robber bees hunting en masse for colonies that cannot protect their honey. The emphasis was on the hive being robbed, which is easily identified given the rush of bees into the hive, along with fighting between the hive and robber bees. This article shows a detailed series of technical …
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I’m not a sociologist. So when a new sociology paper on the topic of competition between managed honey bees and native wild bees was recently published, I wanted to see what I could learn. As readers of this column have probably been noticing, lately I’ve been covering several new papers on the topic of competition …
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Have you ever had European foulbrood? EFB, or Melissococcus plutonius, is commonly considered the lesser evil of the dreaded foulbroods we either manage for or hope never to catch. But in my day-to-day life as an apiary inspector, I declare EFB to be Public Bee-Enemy Number One. I frequently find it in apiaries far and …
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Global trade has spoiled us. We can buy anything from anywhere, and before we can say Acarapis woodi, the orders plop onto our front porches. And if we don’t like what arrives, we can send it back. International shopping is so effortless, we seldom think about it. Unfortunately, the part about sending it back doesn’t …
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There’s something for everyone As beekeepers, who are we? I sense that the typical, non-beekeeping person has a generalized concept of what a beekeeper must be. We most likely seem a bit odd and are able to — in some way — endure stings that are painful and frightening to the unenlightened. I have grown …
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Hot weather afflicted much of the nation this summer, and drought added insult to injury in some parts. But most of our contacts report average or better honey production — much of it coming before the summer swelter. Honey markets in some places have leveled off a bit, though many beekeepers continue to raise prices …
Read MoreScience and Beliefs In the September issue of the ABJ, Gordon Goeking says “We do know how this all got started. God the Creator made all of this world.” Thanks for the close reading of my article. As a scientist, I generally keep separate what is regarded as “scientific knowledge,” and what may be called …
Read MoreBook Reviews: Autumn Reads Peter L Borst, M.E.A. McNeil, Tina Sebestyen, David Shimo – 1057 Pollen: A Biological Giant in a Microscopic Grain Bill Hesbach – 1081 The “Alien” Honey Bee: What we know about its threat to native pollinators M.E.A. McNeil – 1087 Agronomic Advancements and the Beekeeping World Charles Linder – 1091 The …
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