Winter Reads: Book Reviews Tina Sebestyen, Kathryn Thompson and Roy Hendrickson – 31 Colony Confidential … What Really Goes on Inside the Hive Chapter 12: Itinerant Peter Keilty, with illustrations by Bridget White – 54 The Turn of the 20th Century Peter L Borst – 63 Commercial Beekeeping is Family Time Jody Wallace – 72 …
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As the nation’s commercial pollinators prepare to move bees into California almonds, our cover photo brings a memory from the opposite coast, and from the heat of summer. Jason Deeringer, of Bee Serious LLC in Haines City, Florida, took this photo last July “in a cow pasture in Polk City. The bees had just come …
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Q Which cell type makes the better queen? In the September issue of The Classroom, you had a question about whether a swarm cell or supersedure cell may produce a better queen. The answer may be a swarm cell. See this manuscript for possible insight: Wei et al. 2019. A maternal effect on queen production …
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As concerns over miticide resistance grow, Canadian researchers are developing a new product Rumors have been simmering for a few years already, and now, the hard evidence is mounting. As Erika Plettner, a chemistry professor at Simon Fraser University, said to an audience of beekeepers at the BC Honey Producers’ Association annual meeting, “The question …
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A good crop of water When is the last time another beekeeper asked you, “Did your bees get a good crop of water this year?” I will hazard a guess that the answer to that question will be, “I have yet to be asked that management question.” In bee colony management circles, water is much …
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A famous line in the hit musical My Fair Lady claims “The French don’t care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.” Of course, that cultural no-no wouldn’t make the cut these days. Still, it came to mind as I was reading “The Elements of Eloquence” by Mark Forsyth. Forsyth believes …
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I imagine most readers of this article are tired of social distancing. Our human world did plenty of social distancing in 2020 and 2021, and at least some people still practice some amount of social distancing in 2022. But most people are tired of it. But as sobering as it is to admit, social distancing …
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For years, I have maintained a bee house that holds 30 single-comb top-bar observation hives. The building is a 12-by-24-foot structure moved to a site on our property and extensively modified to become a bee house (see Figure 1). For example, I removed the two windows, turned them upside down, and reattached them back into …
Read MoreGreat Article on EFB I wanted to reach out to you since I just read the article in your August issue on EFB [“European Foulbrood — Its Causes and Symptoms”] by Charlie Vanden Heuvel. I would have sent him an email but none was provided. This was one of the best articles I have read …
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October 19, 2022, Vita Bee Health — Following huge Canadian honey bee losses last winter and spring, a product to combat two major honey bee diseases has been revitalized and reintroduced to market by honey bee health specialists Vita Bee Health. By helping to stem the losses of honey bee colonies, the treatment, OxyTet-62.5, will …
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