REMOTE ISLAND TO HOST IRELAND’S FIRST NATIVE HONEY BEE SANCTUARY

Posted May 1, 2026

REMOTE ISLAND TO HOST IRELAND’S FIRST NATIVE HONEY BEE SANCTUARY

Inishturk Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland — March 23, 2026 A remote island community off Ireland’s west coast is set to become home to the country’s first dedicated native honey bee sanctuary, in a project aimed at protecting one of Europe’s most threatened pollinators. The initiative, approved by the Inishturk Community Development Company, will see the …

Posted May 1, 2026

FIELDWATCH WELCOMES VERMONT AS ITS 32ND GEOGRAPHY

Web-based mapping tool for beekeepers, crop producers, and pesticide applicators WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (February 17, 2026) — FieldWatch, Inc., a nonprofit company that promotes communication and stewardship among crop producers, beekeepers and pesticide applicators, announces that Vermont has joined as the 32nd geography. Vermont joins FieldWatch along with 27 other states, three Canadian provinces and …

Posted May 1, 2026

PROJECT APIS M. WELCOMES IZZY HILL AS DIRECTOR OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Welcome Izzy Hill to the Project Apis m. Team! Izzy will be leading an exciting new program called the Bee Health Regulatory Consortium. Here are a few words from Izzy: “I am excited to be joining PAm and to help lead a new consortium focused on better addressing beekeeper needs, particularly access to affordable and …

Posted May 1, 2026

Contents – May 2026

THE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 483 BEEKEEPING BASICS Do You Really Need a New Queen? Tina Sebestyen – 491 More Than Honey: AHPA Serves the Entire Beekeeping Industry Anne MArie Fauvel – 497 Would Your Eat the Same Thing Three Meals Per Day? Ed Szymanski – 499 PLAIN TALK BEEKEEPING Helping Thirsty Bees James E. Tew – …

American Bee Journal Volume 166 No. 5 May 2026 Cover features a close up of a drone bee emerging. Calouts: Do you really need a new queen - 491, AHB in the USA - 523, Where do honey bees mater?-527

Posted May 1, 2026

ABJ MAY 2026 COVER

Emergent: The first drones of the season are a sure sign of spring – and a subtle warning that swarm season is just around the bend. Our May cover comes from the photographer Taylor Zadnik of Sharpshot (https://sharpshotphotos.mypixieset.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario.

Posted April 1, 2026

The Classroom – April 2026

Greetings readers. I am trying something new in this month’s column. Increasingly, many of you are going to Large Language Models (LLMs) with your questions about bees. ChatGPT is one such LLM. I have seen colleagues and other authors compare how they would answer a specific question to how ChatGPT answers the same question. I …

Posted April 1, 2026

Too May Bees? Drawing Down is Better than Walking Out

In my youth, all honey came in a comb, something I never questioned. It wasn’t until I departed my Pennsylvania homeland that I discovered something amiss: Whenever I tried to buy honey, the good part was missing. For the life of me, I couldn’t understand why someone would separate honey from its cradle. Like waffles …

Posted April 1, 2026

The Demaree Method of Swarm Control

It may be tempting not to bother trying to control the swarming instinct, but there are some very good reasons not to allow swarms to “go to the trees.” First, for yourself … if your colony swarms, a good portion of your honey production goes with it. Even if you don’t care about honey, the …

Posted April 1, 2026

The Waxing and Waning of Beekeeping

Sneaking out of church When I was a little guy (but not real little), during winter months I would quietly leave the church service and take the back stairway to the dark, warm boiler room in the basement. There the custodian would be sitting near a large, dark, coal-heating boiler that hissed, thumped, and clanked. …

Posted April 1, 2026

The Bee-Keepers’ Advance: A Bee Journal from Maine

Today, American Bee Journal and Bee Culture are well-known periodicals among beekeepers. Far less known is an obscure historical fact. Another 99 periodicals about bees were started in the United States and 10 in Canada (Paddock, 1930). These bee journals were scattered all across America, even into her more distant corners. From the Northeast was …

REMOTE ISLAND TO HOST IRELAND’S FIRST NATIVE HONEY BEE SANCTUARY

Posted May 1, 2026