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American Bee Journal Vol 165, No. 2 February 2025 Cover Callouts: Understanding honeybee castes - 171, Build a groovy shim for winter feeding - 183, How bee look to each other - 191

INVASIVE SPOTTED LANTERNFLY DETECTED IN GEORGIA

Adult Spotted Lanternfly Small bug with spotted wings and a slight reddish hue sitting on a piece of wood.
Posted January 1, 2025

INVASIVE SPOTTED LANTERNFLY DETECTED IN GEORGIA

ATLANTA, GA — The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) has received confirmation from the USDA that the first detection of spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula or SLF), an invasive planthopper that poses a serious risk to the state’s agriculture, was made in Fulton County, Georgia on October 22, 2024, and confirmed by USDA APHIS on November …

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Contents-January 2025

Posted January 1, 2025

Contents-January 2025

Winter Reads Rusty Burlew, Dewey M. Caron, Carol Hrusovsky, Eugene Makovec, Tina Sebestyen  – 23 Highbush Blueberry Pollination Survey Miriam Bixby – 41 A History of the Discoveries About the Sexuality of the Honey Bee – Part 3 Frédéric Eggers de Villepin – 53 The Healing Power of Honey: A Review of its Benefits in …

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ABJ JANUARY 2025 COVER

American Bee Journal January 2025 Cover: A snow covered field in the foreground, with multicolored hives with snow on top in the middle-ground and bare trees in the background.
Posted January 1, 2025

ABJ JANUARY 2025 COVER

Winter respite: This month’s cover comes to us from Paul Landsberg of Clinton, Missouri. The photo was taken at his home yard last January, shortly before the trek to California for almond pollination.

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The Classroom – December 2024

The Classroom - ABJ - Jamie Ellis
Posted December 1, 2024

The Classroom – December 2024

Q: How to store uncapped honey? I have a super that is full, but it is not capped. I have been told you can freeze it for 48 hours, remove it from the freezer, place in a black plastic bag, and then store it away for spring. Your thoughts? Fred Giardinelli Schenectady, New York September …

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Pesticide use ia a major driver of continent-wide declines of hundreds of wild bee species in the USA

Posted December 1, 2024

Pesticide use ia a major driver of continent-wide declines of hundreds of wild bee species in the USA

Every once in a while a scientific study comes along that improves our understanding of a topic by leaps and bounds. While it’s well established that pesticides cause problems for bees, the scope of the problem is often what’s argued over. Are a few bees dying here and there from occasional harmful pesticide exposure, or …

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The Intrinsic Value of the Bee Supply Catalog

Posted December 1, 2024

The Intrinsic Value of the Bee Supply Catalog

A few weeks ago, I picked up yet another bee supply catalog at a meeting. No big excitement there. After all, like phone books, we get a new one every year. Normally, I flip through them to see the expected listings with a few new products, but rarely are my socks knocked off at some …

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Beekeeping Experience with Other Hives

Posted December 1, 2024

Beekeeping Experience with Other Hives

Working with different hive designs helps build versatility in one’s apicultural experience. Currently I am trying out different prototypes of long hives. A long hive has frames in a long horizontal row (see Figures 1 and 2). Sometimes in my studies I need easy access to the cluster from above, particularly in the winter. In …

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December

Posted December 1, 2024

December

December is the last month of the year, and Charles Butler, who authored “The Feminine Monarchie; Or The Historie of Bees” in 1609, wrote: Bees lie still in their Hives, passing this fruitlesse time in sleepe and slumber, yet on milde and warme hours, they flie. Bees are not quite as Butler described them sleeping …

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The Perils of Pyrethroids for Pollinator

Posted December 1, 2024

The Perils of Pyrethroids for Pollinator

Just after 9 p.m., the faint rumble of a mosquito truck tumbles through the open windows of my South Dakota home. As the sound gets louder, I drop my book and scramble to close everything, slamming windows and doors to keep the fog outside. Sometimes I watch as the truck thunders by, spewing poisonous white …

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Letters to the Editor – December 2024

Posted December 1, 2024

Letters to the Editor – December 2024

Getting the most out of a hive I really enjoy the American Bee Journal. Thanks for the great magazine. I want to encourage the writers that are veteran honey producers to share their way of getting the most out of their hives. I’m sure you have a wealth of knowledge the rest of us could …

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