“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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When we think of bees, we usually think of social creatures. We often see drawings of bees circling a bulbous nest dangling from a tree. The bees look down at us and scowl or smile, depending on the artist’s worldview. In truth, bees have an enormous range of social behaviors. The eusocial (meaning truly social) …
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December is a good month to look back over the past year and see if our beekeeping objectives were met. How did your bees do? Did you try something new? Did you incorporate a new piece of equipment? Did you get any harvestable surplus or were harvest expectations exceeded? Now is a good time to …
Read MoreHymenoptera Our yards sounded with a buzz. The four winged creatures below And above. From ants to wasps And of course honey bees too. If you didn’t disturb them they would Not disturb you! With the Vernal Equinox the seasons changed Spring had sprung and the flowers were Blooming causing insects to …
Read MoreARS News Service Parlier, Calif., Oct. 18, 2021 — One day, Yorizane may be synonymous with almonds and California. So what is a Yorizane and what does it have to do with almonds? Yorizane is a new self-pollinating almond variety developed by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service with superb consumer traits such as size, color, …
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ARS News Service October 1, 2021, Baton Rouge, La. — Honey bees could be intentionally bred to thrive on plants that are already locally present or even solely on artificial diets, according to a recent USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study. ARS researchers found individual bees respond differently to the same diet and that …
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