Q Culling a Weak Colony My manager and I were discussing old beekeeper strategies. I remember reading that older beekeepers always culled the weak hives from their apiaries before winter set in. If I remember correctly, the amount of culling was about 15%. Through the winter, losses were about 15%. This gave about a 30% …
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Triple Swarm We’ve been beekeepers for 10 years. We had the best mentor, Al Avitabile. I recently send Al this picture of a swarm we had in our yard and he told me to send it to ABJ with the caption, “When three is not a crowd.” They were easy to catch, like the ones …
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Carpathian queens continue to arrive from Ukraine, becoming the littlest refugees On May 19, 2022, some unlikely refugees touched down in Canada from the war-torn country of Ukraine. They are not families seeking shelter from the ongoing Russian conflict, nor hospital patients seeking life-saving care. They are Carpathian queen honey bees, produced by Ukrainian beekeepers …
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Spring has been cool and late in most of the country — wet in a lot of places, but not enough out west. Honey prices continue to rise, due to the federal antidumping act and higher production and packaging costs, but demand is still strong. Northeast Pennsylvania’s spring weather has been up and down, and …
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From the author: For the next few months, I look forward to contributing both written and photographic information here that relates to beekeeping — plain and simple. That will be a challenge for me because many beekeeping techniques are anything but plain and simple. In this column, I promise I will do my best to …
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As a pre-teen with a fondness for Nancy Drew mysteries, I developed a taste for hidden messages. I’d see them everywhere, written in puffy clouds or in raindrops sluicing down a windshield. But binomial species names were my favorite, filled with secrets. Why people didn’t like these pompous-sounding appellations, I couldn’t understand. After all, who …
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Harmful pesticide exposures during crop pollination come from beyond the farm As I write this, it’s currently pollination season throughout the northern U.S., which means lots of beekeepers are bringing lots of bees to lots of farms. In New York, pollination is worth ~$400 million per year to the state’s fruit and vegetable farmers. In …
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With the heat of the summer comes increased trouble from small hive beetles in areas where they have become a problem, particularly in the Southeast. For new beekeepers, they need to know the life history of small hive beetles early on to avoid their destructive consequences. Let’s begin with identification. Small hive beetle eggs are …
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The City of Bee Cave’s inaugural Books and Bees Festival took place on April 30th, and was an instant success with children and adults alike. Pollinator education was the order of the day, with a live honey bee demonstration, beekeeping-themed games and wildflower giveaways providing fun and pollinator awareness in equal measure. The city would …
Read MoreBook Reviews: Summer Reads Carol Hrusovszky, Alison McAfee, Tina Sebestyen and M.E.A. McNeil – 729 Walking the Walk — Selective Breeding for Mite Resistance; 2022 Update, Part 2: Mite Resistance and Genetic Expression Randy Oliver – 755 Colony Confidential … What Really Goes on Inside the Hive Chapter 6: Family Tree Peter Keilty, with illustrations …
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