More beekeepers are using cold storage to induce brood breaks or ease the summer dearth Beekeepers have been keeping colonies indoors to pass through the depths of winter for over a century. For example, discussions of “cellaring” colonies in the coldest months date back to 1902, when G.M. Doolittle, a beekeeper in New York, wrote …
Read MoreHot Weather Beekeeping Thanks so much for this! This is my first season with bees and your article came at a perfect time [“Hot weather bees and beekeeping,” July]. We are roasting in SW Ohio. Best regards, Krista Taylor Jim Tew responds: Dear Ms. Taylor, I certainly feel your pain. I am in Wooster, …
Read MoreWinter honey bees, compared to newly emerged summer bees, have a better ability to withstand the harmful effects of a widely-used insecticide in pest management, according to a recent study published in Apidologie. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers from the Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, found winter honey …
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Australia “the only major honey-producing country free from varroa mite,” the most serious pest to honey bees worldwide An emergency biosecurity zone has been imposed to stop the movement of bees across New South Wales after the deadly parasite varroa mite was discovered. The mite was found last week at hives near the Port …
Read MoreOn May 9, 2022, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) voted unanimously that U.S. beekeepers producing raw honey were being materially injured by dumped imports of raw honey from Argentina, Brazil, India and Vietnam. This was the last step necessary in the trade case that was filed in April 2021 by the American Honey …
Read MoreWalking the Walk — Selective Breeding for Mite Resistance; 2022 Update, Part 3: Shifting the Genetics of a Breeding Population Randy Oliver – 869 Colony Confidential … What Really Goes on Inside the Hive Chapter 7: Ant Wars Peter Keilty, with illustrations by Bridget White – 876 My Journey to Regenerative Beekeeping, Part 2 David …
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Our colorful August cover comes to us from Sandy McMurry-Richey of Mountain Grove, Missouri. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a species of milkweed that is blooming across much of the country this month, attracting a variety of bees, wasps and butterflies with both pollen and nectar.
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Q Culling a Weak Colony My manager and I were discussing old beekeeper strategies. I remember reading that older beekeepers always culled the weak hives from their apiaries before winter set in. If I remember correctly, the amount of culling was about 15%. Through the winter, losses were about 15%. This gave about a 30% …
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Triple Swarm We’ve been beekeepers for 10 years. We had the best mentor, Al Avitabile. I recently send Al this picture of a swarm we had in our yard and he told me to send it to ABJ with the caption, “When three is not a crowd.” They were easy to catch, like the ones …
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Carpathian queens continue to arrive from Ukraine, becoming the littlest refugees On May 19, 2022, some unlikely refugees touched down in Canada from the war-torn country of Ukraine. They are not families seeking shelter from the ongoing Russian conflict, nor hospital patients seeking life-saving care. They are Carpathian queen honey bees, produced by Ukrainian beekeepers …
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