Early humans were initially hunters/gatherers. This includes the earliest beekeepers who practiced hunting of wild bee nests for their honey and beeswax. Some human cultures continue such traditions today. Dr. Mike Burgett, emeritus professor of Apiculture at Oregon State University, described the dangers to present-day Sundarban honey hunters of the mangrove coastal forests of India/Bangladesh …
Read More“Easier” OAV Method Not so Easy I found the title of Mike Haney’s article (November 2021), “Making Oxalic Acid Vaporizing Easier,” rather ironic. While I know there are many ways to accomplish the same task, the rather lengthy process he described, complete with 7 photos, seems unnecessarily complex to me. The three main problems he …
Read MoreLike neurological systems and human social groups, new research on bees offers clues to how biological collectives make choices under dynamic conditions Scientists have carefully studied the intricacies of how individual organisms live and act together in groups known as biological collectives. In “superorganisms” such as bee colonies, the interactions of the individual members add …
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a new proof-of-concept study shows. A multiyear study of commercial-scale fields in the Midwest found this approach led to a 95% reduction in pesticide applications, …
Read MoreBook Reviews: Winter Reads Tina Sebestyen, Thomas Seeley, Eugene Makovec – 31 Intelligent Insects Peter L Borst – 53 Do the Blooms Need the Bees? Self-pollinating Almonds and the New Yorizane M.E.A. McNeil – 69 Observations on Pollen Subs — Part 4: Nectar, Water, and Humidity Randy Oliver – 85 Turfgrass Tyranny: Augusta Syndrome and …
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“It does snow in Texas sometimes!” Our cover photo was sent in by Richard Chapman, who took it last January at his ranch in Rice, just south of Dallas.
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Q Using Api Life Var How much brood do you expect to see this time of year (September)? I know the bees detest the smell of Api Life Var and that causes some irritability and brood disruption. That said, I only saw a couple of spotty frames of brood in the hives, less than I …
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Using bees to deliver targeted biological control agents to flowers could be the next big thing for precision agriculture Humans have been designing pollination robots since at least the 1990s, but try as we might, so far nature has produced the best pollinators we have. Bees have delicate dexterity, wonderfully small, fuzzy bodies that tickle …
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How many beekeeping books can you recall listing the ways honey bees replace their queen bees? Here is the list: swarming, supersedure, and emergency queen loss. This list needs to be updated now, because for probably about 10-15 years, maybe longer, the bees have had a fourth way to replace a queen (here in the …
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How good are honey bees at pollinating compared to other pollinators? When I speak with most people about pollination, they talk about honey bees as the prime example of a highly effective pollinator. But this contrasts with the opinion of many scientists. Many of the scientists I speak with consider honey bees to be OK …
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