Studying feral honey bees is giving us a window into how they are able to persist in such a challenging world Domesticated animals often do fine if they are turned loose into the wild to fend for themselves — sometimes more than fine. Feral cats, for example, have been so successful at hunting and reproducing …
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Some things should never be calculated. I learned this basic lesson many years ago from a skating coach. After I won my first gold medal — okay, it was some kind of yellow metal medal — I tried to tally the money I spent on skates, lessons, rink fees, travel, competitions, practice clothes, sequined costumes, …
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Most beekeepers are concerned about pesticides but unsure how concerned they should be. On the one hand, every commercial beekeeper who rents their bees for pollination of almond, blueberry, apple, or other high-value crops has a story about how some of their colonies have died fairly quickly after one or more pollination events. Given what …
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Winter weather is well past us now, and spring blossoms beckon our bees into the fields. “Lord willing, and the creek don’t rise,” the COVID-19 winter will also soon be melting away. Northeast Pennsylvania saw high winter losses, but spring buildup looked good as of late March, and ground conditions were about normal. New York …
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Documenting and studying old beehive designs are difficult endeavors. I always want to work with primary materials. For me, that primary material is the original hive and literature written by the beekeeper explaining the original design (before others may have changed that design). To render matters more difficult, virtually all the hives I study are …
Read MoreHorsefly Bees and Pools It was the perfect time this past weekend to set up an alternate water source for our bees after we removed our pool cover where algae scum had been an oasis for them. I was encouraged after reading your January article by Joe Conti on “How to Keep Bees Away from …
Read MoreInformation on the Upcoming Amendment to the Varroacide, Oxalic Acid (API-Bioxal™) USDA and EPA are receiving questions from stakeholders regarding a recent tolerance exemption for oxalic acid, a pesticide used to control parasitic mites of honey bees (Apis mellifera). A tolerance is the legal limit for a chemical residue in or on a food. The …
Read MoreWhat Does the New Oxalic Acid Exemption Mean? Lewis Cauble – 493 Medicinal Honey for Animals: What We Know and What More We Need to Know M.E.A. McNeil – 507 Beekeeper-funded Research: A Field Trial of Probiotics Randy Oliver – 521 Queen Supersedure — Caused by Queen Pheromone or Brood Pheromone? Eric Talley – 525 …
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Our cover photo comes to us from Joan Fox, of Tucson, Arizona. “I’d never seen anything like this adorable pollinating behavior: The honey bees forage the pollen-tipped anthers of Red Bird of Paradise [Caesalpinia pulcherrima], and then use the long filaments to catapult/pole vault themselves into the center of the flower!”
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Q Shelf Life of Oxalic Acid I have several questions about oxalic acid (OA). How long can mixed oxalic acid used for drip be kept? How long will the crystals in an open foil pouch tightly wrapped last? (I cannot find this information on the containers.) Also, for both, if they can be kept, how …
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