If you look up the word “supering” in a dictionary it gives definitions that definitely do not fit beekeeper supering. Beekeepers define a super as “any upper-story hive box placed over the brood chamber for purpose of storing surplus honey.” When you look up “honey super,” Wikipedia informs us, “A honey super is a part …
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Kelly Hall shot this photo of 14-16 day old queen cells that her husband, Jeff, grafted. They use these queens for their own apiaries and sell a few to local beekeepers. Doing their own queen rearing helps support their goal of maintaining a sustainable apiary; they jokingly refer to their queens as “local mutts.” This …
Read MoreCare for Your Bees, and Your Loved Ones Dear Mr. Makovec, I so appreciate your very touching, and oh so true, article in this month’s ABJ edition [From the Editor, April]. So often we believe we know what will happen until something unexpected happens. Such as a traumatic loss. As you eloquently and empathetically stated, …
Read MoreMississauga, ON Canada and Sacramento, CA USA (April 14, 2021) — Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. today announced that the Company has tripled its sales commitments among blueberry growers in the U.S. Midwest, signing nine growers, including three of the largest berry producers in the region. BVT is also launching two R&D demonstration trials in …
Read MoreHIVE GRADING TECHNOLOGY TESTED IN SUNFLOWER FIELDS INDIANAPOLIS, IND. | APRIL 20, 2021 — Wyatt Wells, The Bee Corp, Co-founder & CMO wyatt.wells@thebeecorp.com; Olivia Zingraf, BLNKPG, Media Coordinator olivia@blnkpg.com. The Bee Corp (www.thebeecorp.com/) and Syngenta Seeds recently announced a partnership to trial Verifli hive grading technology on a pilot sunflower plot. Verifli is a technology …
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Q Fermented Honey We have a few pails of fall-extracted honey from a couple of years ago that has fermented. Is it safe to feed to the bees? John Hotchkiss Ontario, March A The general rule of thumb is not to feed fermented honey to bees. It is said to cause dysentery in the bees. …
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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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