Making Lemonade out of Lemons This letter was inspired by the great content in the May 2021 issue. While my brooding actually began with the article on the new EPA standards for oxalic acid, the actual motivation that solicited an initial (mental) response was aroused by Jamie Ellis’s suggestions in regards to fermented honey. This …
Read MoreIn October 1934 Thomas Cashman Sr. was the President of the Brown County Beekeepers Association. Fast forward to today and his son, Thomas Cashman Jr., is the Treasurer of the very same organization and celebrates his 50th anniversary as a member. The Brown County Beekeepers Association of Green Bay, WI was organized in 1918 and …
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Canadian Canola Growers Association & Canola Council of Canada media release Winnipeg, MB — March 31, 2021 — Earlier today, Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) released its final special review decision on clothianidin and thiamethoxam, two important seed treatments that farmers use to protect their emerging canola crops from early season pests. The final …
Read MoreSummer Reads: Book reviews Carol Hrusovszky, Tina Sebestyen, Eugene Makovec – 717 Honey Fraud: Closing in on the Cheaters M.E.A. McNeil – 727 Monitoring Honey Bee Colony Activities with a Temperature Sensor Grid — Part 4 Frank Linton, Anna Stumme, Brett Padula, Gail Ifshin, Gregory Behrmann – 733 A Queen is Born Peter Borst – …
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Closer inspection reveals a queen just below the entrance to this swarm trap, joining her subjects on their march into what the itinerant colony believes to be its new home. Just to the left of the entrance we see several workers, Nasonov glands exposed, fanning the universal homing scent to their siblings. Chris Long took …
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Q Mysterious Leg Spine/Spur On the mid-legs is the spine or spur. What is the consensus on its function? I guess it is referred to as a “wax spur” by many, thinking it is used to move wax flakes. I think I saw another reference to it being used to move pollen pellets. Do …
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Everyone’s getting vaccinated … Do honey bees run vaccination programs, too? As I write this, 40% of people in the U.S. have received at least their first dose of the COVID vaccine and 26% are fully vaccinated. That corresponds to 133 million people receiving one dose and 86 million people being fully vaccinated. Wow, talk …
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In the previous article, we studied the rare Phelps hive from the early 1850s to learn about hive development. We saw the Phelps hive as a complete miniature hive, a full-size outer case, and even the book Phelps wrote. Mostly we will lose this exotic luxury of having both a complete hive and book by …
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Automated tracking technologies allow researchers to monitor behaviors of all the honey bees in a hive simultaneously Companies are getting better and better at targeted advertising. Every day, sophisticated computer algorithms track our online activity and location data in an effort to feed us ads that are more likely to stick. Although nobody is actually …
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It’s not surprising that beekeepers are often in favor of invasive plants that “normal people” find objectionable. After all, honey bees are themselves invasive. Once they landed in North America via the Jamestown colony, honey bees lost no time distributing themselves across the continent. They engulfed the wildlands in a fashion that defines invasive, thriving …
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