Pesticide residues are common in soils surrounding corn and soybean fields and are associated with fewer species of native bees. Last month’s “Notes from the Lab” focused on how landscapes dominated by corn and soybeans can be both good and bad for honey bees. Good because colonies grow quickly when soybeans (at least some varieties) …
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Everywhere you look these days, people are making, buying, and using beeswax food wraps. If the concept is new to you, a beeswax food wrap is a piece of beeswax-infused cotton fabric that is meant to be used in place of plastic or aluminum food wrap. Since they are reusable, beeswax wraps are thought to …
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Honey bee colonies die. At some point you will stand over the sad sight of a dead colony, and will have to make decisions about what to do with the equipment. Do you dump a new package of bees straight into the hive and move on with life? Do you burn everything in a fit …
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Microbes are giving us a new wave of defenses against hive pests and pathogens Bacteria are not something to be cringed at. Villains like E. coli, Listeria, and Staphylococcus aureus have given the whole bacterial kingdom a bad rap, but we can capitalize on beneficial microbes to work for us instead of against us. …
Read MoreInternational Honey Market Report Ron Phipps – 259 Australia — Paradise Lost? Ron Miksha – 279 Re-evaluating Varroa Monitoring — Part 1 Randy Oliver – 289 Drones for Drones — A New Way to Find Drone Congregation Areas Julia Mahood – 297 Maine’s Down East Wild Lowbush Blueberry Pollination Dewey M. Caron – 305 Mentoring …
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Keith Penney shows a frame of bees to Bonnie Warzynski (right) and Emily Lukacs, at a Waupaca County Beekeepers Association event in central Wisconsin. Club-based mentoring can be a powerful source of support for new beekeepers. Photo by Kent Pegorsch, President, Wisconsin Honey Producers Association
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Email Questions to Jamie at classroom@americanbeejournal.com Follow my lab on social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram Q Trapping Small Hive Beetles Enjoyed your videoed viewpoint(s) from 2015. I’m an old hand beekeeper (New England) but new to Tennessee. Never saw small hive beetles (SHB) before coming here. Will step up to perhaps 40 hives this year …
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Wisconsin Honey Producers Association is proud to announce that Jennifer Hinkel of Franklin, Wisconsin was selected as the 2020 Wisconsin Honey Queen. Jennifer is the daughter of Bill and Rose Hinkel of Franklin, Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee with a focus on marketing, communications, and entrepreneurship. Jennifer will …
Read MoreOn the occasion that you actually spy a Varroa destructor clinging to one of your honey bees, don’t you wish you could just zap it with a laser? A pair of Cornell graduate students have developed a device to do just that. Hailey Scofield and Nathan Oakes recently entered the Ithaca, New York-based university’s inaugural …
Read MoreThis month, WSDA entomologists identified a large hornet found near the Canadian border as an Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), an invasive species not previously found in Washington State. Although it is not typically aggressive toward humans, this unwelcome pest can inflict a powerful sting and also represents a threat to honeybees, for which they …
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