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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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 …
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