For years, I have maintained a bee house that holds 30 single-comb top-bar observation hives. The building is a 12-by-24-foot structure moved to a site on our property and extensively modified to become a bee house (see Figure 1). For example, I removed the two windows, turned them upside down, and reattached them back into …
Read MoreGreat Article on EFB I wanted to reach out to you since I just read the article in your August issue on EFB [“European Foulbrood — Its Causes and Symptoms”] by Charlie Vanden Heuvel. I would have sent him an email but none was provided. This was one of the best articles I have read …
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October 19, 2022, Vita Bee Health — Following huge Canadian honey bee losses last winter and spring, a product to combat two major honey bee diseases has been revitalized and reintroduced to market by honey bee health specialists Vita Bee Health. By helping to stem the losses of honey bee colonies, the treatment, OxyTet-62.5, will …
Read MoreCat and Mouse Game: An Update on Honey Fraud from Apimondia 2022 and the American Context M.E.A. McNeil – 1309 Beware of the “Hobby Loss” Audit When You Turn Your Beekeeping Hobby into a Business Josh Wease, JD, LLM – 1325 Colony Confidential … What Really Goes on Inside the Hive Chapter 11: Exodus Peter …
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Winter peace: The greens turn to brown, and the browns to white. As the calendar finally begins to unclutter, our thoughts turn to hearth and home, our hearts to faith and family. From all of us at ABJ and Dadant, may the coming season bring you health, happiness, and peace. Editor Eugene Makovec took our …
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Q Wax moth control I have been a hobbyist beekeeper for over 30 years. Way back when I first started beekeeping, I was told you could protect empty supers with drawn combs from wax moths using paradichlorobenzene (PDB) moth crystals (sold as Para-Moth). I never really needed to protect many supers until this year. PDB …
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In the July 2022 issue of Notes from the Lab [162(7):795-797] I summarized a study from Michigan showing about three quarters of pesticide risk to honey bees conducting blueberry pollination comes from pesticides that aren’t registered for use on blueberries. Honey bees were simultaneously exposed to an average of 35 pesticides in pollen they collected …
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In the previous article, we learned how J.S. Harbison moved bees by steamship from Pennsylvania to California, a journey of 5,900 miles, taking the long route through Panama. In two shipments, occurring in 1857 and 1858, Harbison managed to get roughly 100 viable colonies to the West Coast. Some colonies were sold, and others were …
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Chalkbrood is common, but overlooking it could be a mistake Nobody wants to be eaten by a fungus from the inside out. But that’s exactly what happens to honey bee larvae infected with Ascosphaera apis, the pathogen that causes chalkbrood disease. The spores germinate in the larva’s gut, then hyphae (fungal branches) burst from the …
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At its core At its most fundamental level, beekeeping is a simple endeavor. Bees are bizarrely adaptable and can put up with most demands that beekeepers impose on them. Elementary beekeeping is an elegantly simple system. The bees Fundamentally, for a nest site, bees only want a protected cavity having the approximate volume of a …
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