Q Small Drones One of my colonies in Southern California was requeened over a month ago (I requeen in the fall as part of brood break and IPM) and at the time of requeening, about 10% of the colony was comprised of normal sized drones which I consider to be appropriate for this time of …
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In the previous article, we witnessed a usurpation swarm nearly take over a frame hive. Here is another near takeover. I also include the events that would have happened in replacing the colony’s queen (called the resident queen) with the usurpation queen. (The colony being taken over is called the host colony.) The usurpation swarm …
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The vast majority of farmers use chemical insecticides to protect their crops against potentially damaging insect pests. This should not be a foreign concept to beekeepers; the majority of beekeepers use miticides to protect their bees against the varroa mite. But how farmers use insecticides varies greatly. Some farmers operate on a schedule, applying insecticides …
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It’s hard to know the truth about anything. At the inception of the internet, we imagined unlimited access to a world of information. The dissemination of knowledge would be boundless, allowing each of us to read and consider multiple viewpoints before drawing our own fact-based conclusions. It sounds like heaven. It used to be that …
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Cannabis is becoming a prevalent crop, but it doesn’t mean your honey will have a buzz I live in British Columbia’s Fraser River delta, surrounded by agricultural land. The usual crops of hay, corn, blueberries, pumpkins, peas, and potatoes abound. But in the last two years, a new plant has made an appearance in the …
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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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