2ND MICHIGAN BEEKEEPING CLUB DONATES HONEY TO HEALTHCARE HEROES

Posted April 1, 2021

2ND MICHIGAN BEEKEEPING CLUB DONATES HONEY TO HEALTHCARE HEROES

Inspired by another Michigan Beekeeper’s Club, The Saginaw Valley Beekeepers Association (SVBA) has completed its Honey donation to our healthcare heroes in our Tri County Area. Honey donations were made to four area hospitals as a way of honoring and recognizing the work of our Covid-19 front line workers. SVBA members donated over 540# of …

Posted April 1, 2021

HONEY BEES FEATURED ON NEW FLATWARE DESIGN

“Honey bees! They’re everywhere.” That’s what Alice Roberts told her husband Matt Roberts while thinking of new flatware patterns for Sherrill Manufacturing brand Liberty Tabletop, in Sherrill, New York. Matt is the President and Co-Founder of the company and Alice is his “beautiful bride,” as he calls her, his wife of 33 years who also …

Posted April 1, 2021

PARASITE HIJACKS IRON IN HONEY BEES

BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, February 18, 2021—An Agricultural Research Service entomologist has discovered that the Nosema ceranae parasite that causes major problems and death in honey bees works by hijacking its host’s iron for itself. Iron is as essential a micronutrient for honey bees as it is for people. Honey bees usually get enough to meet their …

Posted April 1, 2021

2021 AMERICAN HONEY QUEEN & PRINCESS HAIL FROM WISCONSIN & TEXAS

The American Beekeeping Federation is proud to announce that Jennifer Hinkel and Virginia Allen were selected as the 2021 American Honey Queen and Princess. Queen Jennifer is the 23-year-old daughter of Bill Hinkel of Franklin, WI. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing with a …

Posted April 1, 2021

Letters to the Editor – April 2021

Horsefly Traps and Bees I am writing to inform the beekeeping community about a situation that I did not know existed until a few weeks ago. In a conversation with a landowner adjacent to a property on which I wanted to locate a new out-yard, I was told that he owned horses and that his …

Posted April 1, 2021

April 2021 Table of Contents

The Bee Informed Partnership Tech Teams: Data-driven Answers to the Most Important Questions M.E.A. McNeil– 388 Beekeeper-funded Research: A Test of Thermal Treatment for Varroa, Part 2 Randy Oliver – 407 Handling Defensive Bees Dewey M. Caron – 421 Large-scale Beekeeping: How It Came About in the U.S. Peter L Borst – 427 Keeping Honey …

Posted April 1, 2021

April 2021 ABJ Cover

Finally, spring! Eastern redbud trees (Cercis canadensis) bursting into color are a sure sign of the season in south central Missouri. Charlotte Wiggins took this photo last April, in her backyard in Rolla.

Posted March 1, 2021

The Classroom – March 2021

Q Boardman feeders to supply water I have three hives in my back yard and I supply them with plain water via a front entrance Boardman feeder and a quart Mason jar filled with water (that I boil first and let cool) for each hive. When the jar is empty, and I take if off …

Posted March 1, 2021

Create an Artificial Swarm with a Taranov Split

A split is simply a division made by taking an existing colony and separating it into two or more parts. As elementary as that sounds, endless variations exist depending on the desired outcome. Splits can create more colonies, produce nucs, raise queens, prevent swarms, or control mites. An experienced beekeeper will often have a signature …

Posted March 1, 2021

Notes from the Lab – March 2021

A new high-throughput method to assess risk from pesticide co-exposures Honey bees are almost always exposed to pesticides. For example, in a recent survey of 198 beekeeper hives throughout New York, we found pesticides in comb wax from 197 of the hives (Wheeler et al. 2018). On average, wax from the hives contained 6 different …

2ND MICHIGAN BEEKEEPING CLUB DONATES HONEY TO HEALTHCARE HEROES

Posted April 1, 2021