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American Bee Journal Volume 166 No. 10 October 2026 Cover Cover Callouts: Apis mellifera, weather girl - 1077, Winter hive ventilation - 1093, 1101, 1105, How does the colony respond to OA? - 1127 Cover shoes a frame of brood with a queen cell and several bees near the center of the frame.

AUSTRALIAN STATE ISSUES BEE LOCKDOWN AFTER VARROA DISCOVERED

bees on frame
Posted August 1, 2022

AUSTRALIAN STATE ISSUES BEE LOCKDOWN AFTER VARROA DISCOVERED

Australia “the only major honey-producing country free from varroa mite,” the most serious pest to honey bees worldwide   An emergency biosecurity zone has been imposed to stop the movement of bees across New South Wales after the deadly parasite varroa mite was discovered. The mite was found last week at hives near the Port …

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AMERICAN HONEY PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES ANTI-DUMPING WIN

Posted August 1, 2022

AMERICAN HONEY PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES ANTI-DUMPING WIN

On May 9, 2022, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) voted unanimously that U.S. beekeepers producing raw honey were being materially injured by dumped imports of raw honey from Argentina, Brazil, India and Vietnam. This was the last step necessary in the trade case that was filed in April 2021 by the American Honey …

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Contents – August 2022

Posted August 1, 2022

Contents – August 2022

Walking the Walk — Selective Breeding for Mite Resistance; 2022 Update, Part 3: Shifting the Genetics of a Breeding Population Randy Oliver – 869 Colony Confidential … What Really Goes on Inside the Hive Chapter 7: Ant Wars Peter Keilty, with illustrations by Bridget White – 876 My Journey to Regenerative Beekeeping, Part 2 David …

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August 2022 ABJ Cover

ABJ 2022 Cover
Posted August 1, 2022

August 2022 ABJ Cover

Our colorful August cover comes to us from Sandy McMurry-Richey of Mountain Grove, Missouri. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a species of milkweed that is blooming across much of the country this month, attracting a variety of bees, wasps and butterflies with both pollen and nectar.

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The Classroom – July 2022

The Classroom - ABJ - Jamie Ellis
Posted July 1, 2022

The Classroom – July 2022

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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Letters to the Editor – July 2022

Posted July 1, 2022

Letters to the Editor – July 2022

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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The Carpathian Mountain Bee

Posted July 1, 2022

The Carpathian Mountain Bee

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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Crop and Market – July 2022

US Crops and Honey Markets
Posted July 1, 2022

Crop and Market – July 2022

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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Hot Weather Bees and Beekeeping

Posted July 1, 2022

Hot Weather Bees and Beekeeping

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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Learning to Love Scientific Names

Posted July 1, 2022

Learning to Love Scientific Names

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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