Our cover this month comes from Justin Scott, of Sweet Stingers Honey and Apiary in Edmond, Oklahoma. “Here is a photo of my son looking down the trunk of a tree after a large bee extraction, rosy cheeks and all. It was hot that day but he stuck around till the end. Labor of love.”
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Q HMF and honey Jamie’s note: I received two questions about HMF and decided to list them both, before taking a stab at answering them. I am wondering if it is chemically safe to feed very old honey back to bees or to use for human consumption. I know the warnings about feeding honey to …
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Unfortunately, “pollinator declines” are part of our vernacular nowadays. You’ve probably heard of the rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis — the Midwestern bee on the Federal Endangered Species List. You may have heard about Franklin’s bumble bee, Bombus franklini, which hasn’t been seen since 2006. Maybe you’ve heard about the recent studies showing widespread …
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Moving beehives is a laborious job for most any beekeeper today even with modern trucks and paved roads. Imagine moving bee colonies in the 19th century. In 1857, J.S. Harbison began moving beehives from Pennsylvania to California, quite a bold move for those times. At the beginning of this western migration, Harbison learned about arguably …
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EFB might be the lesser of two foulbroods, but it is foul all the same Opening a hive that smells sweet with honey stuffed in every cranny is among the most pleasant sensations. But unless you’re a very lucky beekeeper, you also know the dreadful feeling of being greeted with the sick stench of rotting …
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We all know honey bees spin cocoons, right? It’s a fact backed by every beekeeping book ever published. But talk to enough beekeepers, and you will soon learn most of them have never seen a bee cocoon, at least not one they remember. Intrigued by this anomaly, I read everything I could about cocoons and …
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A failed colony’s last gasp This is how this laying worker story started Earlier this summer, I was under a tent at a rainy outdoor field day where I had just given a general spring/summer presentation that essentially required me to shout at my audience for about fifty minutes. Afterwards, a couple of new beekeepers …
Read MoreA California Honey Cave? As a follow-up to my article on “The Texas Honey Caves,” I stumbled upon this from California: A MINE OF SWEETNESS. “Generally, when we hear of rich strikes, it is in the gold or silver line; but this time it turns out to be honey, pure and sweet. A few days …
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Decorah, Iowa, August 15, 2022 — Of the 55 species of bees found living on the Luther College campus this summer, seven have never been recorded in Iowa. Emmelyn Cullen ’24 and Gwen Coleman ’24 spent the summer surveying bee diversity at Luther. “The objective of the research is to make recommendations so that we …
Read MoreIn USDA Sugar and Sweeteners Report, honey consumption totals 618 million pounds for the first time Erie, Colorado, August 16, 2022 — U.S. honey demand reached an all-time high, according to the latest Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook report (https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/104129/sss-m-406.pdf) published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In a special article on the U.S. …
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