You have likely heard of a new beekeeper starting because they want to “Save the Bees.” Perhaps you are mentoring someone who started for that reason. Or you have had the discussion about honey bee colony losses and been asked the question, Are bees going extinct? As we start gearing up for a new spring …
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Did you put mouse guards on your hives? Depending on the local mouse populations, which vary by location and winter season, bee colonies could have suffered considerable comb damage. Perhaps though, the bees endured the cold without being visited by foraging mice, which might be just good fortune, hardly a management plan. Comb pests change …
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This is a story about complacency, rationalization, and ignoring the advice I give to others. It’s about a bear I barely knew. And, ultimately, it’s about the generosity of beekeepers I never met. So let’s take it from the top. My home borders the 110,000-acre Capitol State Forest in Washington State, a working forest where …
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Hiving a tree colony On November 16th while out working some of our bee yards, we noticed a colony of honey bees which had built a considerable amount of comb on the bottom of a limb and made it their home 13 feet off the ground. With them being exposed to the harsh elements of …
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For humans, communication is all about sight and sound, but, for many other organisms, chemicals are their primary language. We occasionally see this type of communication in action — the dog sniffing a rock and leaving his return message with a raised leg — but most of the chemical conversations going on around us are …
Read MoreA great opportunity for learning, networking, and having opportunities to speak with some of the best-known bee authors and researchers. This is a competitive scholarship open to young people ages 18-25 (at time of the conference — August 1-5, 2022), Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Veterans ages 18-30. It pays for most of the one-week …
Read MoreInternational Honey Market Report Ron Phipps – 133 A Trip to the Almonds Jim Masucci – 154 An Online Model for Varroa Management Randy Oliver and Trish Harness – 164 The Beekeepers’ Vocabulary Peter L Borst – 173 Navigating the Web: Apicultural Science and Education in the Information Age Malcom T. Sanford – 185 Club …
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A midwinter’s snack: If this blissful bear is lucky, it will be back in its winter den, content in its slumbers, before the good folks up the hill emerge from theirs. This wonderful scene comes to us from Marie App, of Ogdensburg, Wisconsin, who has seen several of her paintings grace our cover in past …
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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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