ADVANCING THE ART OF BREEDING: KRISPN GIVEN LEADS HISTORIC ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL INSEMINATION WORKSHOPS AT UF AND ENTERPRISE STATE

Posted June 1, 2026

ADVANCING THE ART OF BREEDING: KRISPN GIVEN LEADS HISTORIC ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL INSEMINATION WORKSHOPS AT UF AND ENTERPRISE STATE

The University of Florida and Enterprise State Community College recently made history by hosting the largest coordinated series of advanced instrumental insemination (II) workshops ever held in the United States. Led by Krispn Given, a global authority in honey bee breeding from Purdue University, these intensive sessions trained 23 students across two states in just …

Posted June 1, 2026

Contents-June 2023

THE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 597 BEEKEEPING BASICS Responding to Disease in Honey Bee Colonies Tina Sebestyen – 603 Organic Colony Management: Chemical varroa products approved for organic use Selina Bruckner, Laura C. McHenry, Robyn M. Underwood, Margarite M. López-Uribe – 607 A Surprising Finding About Bee Venom Randy Oliver – 611 The Beehive Apothecary: …

American Bee Journal Violume 166 No. 6 June 2026 Cover Call-outs: Surprising Bee Venom - 611, The Beehive Apothecary - 615, Bees in Space- 673

Posted June 1, 2026

ABJ JUNE 2026 COVER

Jane Sueme took this photo at an apiary she shares with Bob Finck in St.Louis County, Missouri. “We imagine the bees enjoying this bucolic oasis in the middle of civilization on this 4th-generation family farm. Honey bee hives have been maintained here for 20+ years where the bees take advantage of the nearby Meramac River …

Posted May 1, 2026

The Classroom – May 2026

Q: What is white honey Is “white honey” a real thing? A friend brought this [***] in to enjoy with coffee and it is from Kyrgyzstan. I have never heard of it and your articles on contamination of honey sourced from China make me suspect of anything not from known beekeepers locally. Trevor Wolf Ohio, …

Posted May 1, 2026

Helping Thirsty Bees

Summer weather I’ve been reading long-term weather predictions and it looks like parts of our country are due for a long, hot summer. It will be hot for our bees, too. I suppose that I can write that every living organism requires water in some form. Honey bees’ requirements seem to be driven by two …

Posted May 1, 2026

The Beekeeper’s New Clothes

Ever since I became a columnist for the American Bee Journal — back in 2017 — my husband, Rich, has been clipping columns from various old-car magazines and leaving them on my desk. He rates the writing as good or bad, funny or sad. Whatever comes to mind. This annoyed me at first — I …

Posted May 1, 2026

Do You Really Need a New Queen?

On this topic — the queen and her quality — many beekeeper mistakes are possible. It can be difficult to ascertain the true cause of apparent deficiencies in colony health that appear to be the fault of the queen. Sometimes, the need for queen replacement seems cut and dried, such as when a colony is …

Posted May 1, 2026

Bees and Honey: A West Coast Bee Journal

Last month we examined The Beekeepers’ Advance, a journal that flourished briefly in the late 1880s, largely due to its editor James B. Mason. That journal was from the state of Maine in the upper northeast of the country. Now let’s move westward, across the continent, to California and Washington state, and turn the clock …

Posted May 1, 2026

Letters to the Editor – May 2026

Heating hives in winter For more than 60 years, my work and passion have been dedicated to apiculture. During this long period, I have observed that the greatest challenge for many beekeepers is not honey production, but successful wintering of colonies. Three years ago I moved from Albania to the United States, mainly to the …

Posted May 1, 2026

REMOTE ISLAND TO HOST IRELAND’S FIRST NATIVE HONEY BEE SANCTUARY

Inishturk Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland — March 23, 2026 A remote island community off Ireland’s west coast is set to become home to the country’s first dedicated native honey bee sanctuary, in a project aimed at protecting one of Europe’s most threatened pollinators. The initiative, approved by the Inishturk Community Development Company, will see the …

ADVANCING THE ART OF BREEDING: KRISPN GIVEN LEADS HISTORIC ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL INSEMINATION WORKSHOPS AT UF AND ENTERPRISE STATE

Posted June 1, 2026