Beekeeping in National forests After reading the “Say No to Banning Honey Bees in National Forests” letter [Letters to the Editor, October] and downloading and reading the Xerces petition, I would say both have valid points. The petition pointed out a concern of mine; that introduced managed bee colonies might bring the risk of introducing …
Read MoreDRYFORK, West Virginia — Healthberry Farm awarded a Gold medal in the Pyment category for their Honey River Pyment in the 2020 Mead Crafters Competition. “We are proud to represent West Virginia by winning this award,” says Healthberry Farm’s owner, Ben McKean. “This wine is made with 100% West Virginia grown ingredients, and represents a …
Read MoreOctober 12, 2020 – University of Florida Recognizing visionary leadership and diversity in educational programming, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Cooperative Extension, and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) announced that Jamie Ellis of the University of Florida will receive the 2020 Excellence in Extension …
Read MoreTime Warp: Cryopreservation of Honey Bee Germplasm Part 1: The drone contribution M.E.A. McNeil – 1307 Running Interference: RNAi and the promise of healthy bees Bill Hesbach – 1315 A Zooming Success in Georgia Jonathan Hayes and Linda Tillman – 1333 Honey Skep Cakes: An Eastern European holiday tradition M.E.A. McNeil – 1340 Mite Control …
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We finish up this queen introduction series with a method that I recommend. I realize beekeepers have numerous ways to introduce queens. In historical beekeeping, even more queen introduction methods abound. In 1948, L.E. Snelgrove published “The Introduction of Queen Bees,” a book on the subject. Consider now a practical, familiar, and reliable method, drawing …
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Increasing use of land for crops in the United States negatively impacts wildlife while producing marginal benefits for farmers In any competition, there are winners and losers. This is abundantly clear in sports, of course, when one team wins the championship and the other loses. But it’s also true in normal life. For example, when …
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Except for a recently discovered parasite of salmon, all animals require oxygen for survival and expel carbon dioxide as a waste product.1 Because animals are so varied, many breathing systems have evolved throughout the animal kingdom, each one designed to work in an animal’s particular environment. Depending on its size and habitat, an animal may …
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Many beekeepers use terms like raw, natural, local, and organic to describe their honey. These words are great for marketing, and show that beekeepers understand that today’s consumer is savvy to honey fraud and contamination concerns. One of these terms is not like the others, however. While any beekeeper using any practice can technically use …
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Other insects have readily developed resistance to pesticides, but honey bees are slow to act Everywhere we look, from antibiotics to chemotherapies to miticides, we find biological resistance to our attempts at chemical control. Perhaps this phenomenon is most dangerous to us in the world of bacterial infections, where, for example, once-easily-treated pathogens like Staphylococcus …
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