The Nepalese Department of Industrial Entomology Development is establishing a queen bee breeding center near Chitwan, Nepal. Chitwan is located on the Gangetic plain, which is a vast 145,000 sq. mile (375,000 sq. km) rich agricultural plain shared by Nepal and India. There is widespread concern amongst beekeepers in Nepal that the current average yield …
Read MoreVarroa destructor broke Australia’s strict quarantine procedures in June 2022. Despite a large-scale program by government officials and beekeepers to eradicate the mite, on September 19, 2023, the Australian government declared the mite endemic in Australia and for beekeepers to move away from surveillance and mandatory euthanization of infested colonies to managing the mite. Between …
Read MoreA hummingbird at the bee feeder I thoroughly enjoyed your article titled “The aviary in my apiary” [From the Editor, June]. I have been an avid birder most of my life and an avid beekeeper for 27 years. I had a really interesting incident in my apiary in May 2022. While filling a frame feeder …
Read MoreInternational Honey Market Report Ron Phipps – 1169 The Discovery of Yellow Legged Hornets in Georgia Julia Mahood – 1187 Wild Honey Hunters Peter L Borst – 1195 Apimondia 2023 in Santiago — 230 speakers, 120 vendors, and not nearly enough time Kris Fricke – 1201 The Traveling Road Show Tina Sebestyen – 1209 Research …
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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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