On June 30, 2025, roughly a couple of weeks after the main spring nectar flow had subsided, I was inspecting colonies. Some of the colonies remained queenless following swarm season because their daughter queens, the ones inheriting the colonies, failed to mate. While swarm season had mostly ended in late May to perhaps early June, …
Read MoreWhen the neighbors call It was a classic comment. My neighbor called to say, “A big nest of bees has moved into the maple tree in my front yard. Can you help?” It was during this past August and the neighbor’s daughter was to be married a few weeks later. The “bees” in question were …
Read MoreMowing Around Hives A comment on your article about cutting grass around bee hives [From the Editor: “Rush Hour,” August]: Smoke them real well before you start cutting grass. Many “experts” advise to use very little smoke when working bees. In many instances, thus is good advice, but cutting grass close to beehives is not …
Read Moreby Graeme Green – newscientist.com An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honey bees. Bees need to eat pollen from a range of flowers to get the nutrients they need, including essential lipids called sterols. But due …
Read MoreThe state’s youngest 4-H State Ambassador wins global recognition. San Francisco – Today, Action for Nature announced that Lucile Morehouse, a 14-year-old from Boswell, Oklahoma, is one of 15 young environmental activists from across the globe to receive recognition in the 2025 International Young Eco-Hero Awards. Lucile received an honorable mention for the award, which …
Read MoreDavid Miksa, Legendary Beekeeper and Queen Breeder Monica Miksa-King – 1061 Autumn Reads Rusty Burlew, Dewey M. Caron, Carol Hrosovszky – 1069 THE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 1077 BEEKEEPING BASICS Stress Reduction Tina Sebestyen – 1083 Carbon Dioxide- Will it Kill Your Bees William Hesbach – 1087 How to Attract New Members and Retain Experienced …
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What the heck? We leave it to the photographer Beth Conrey, of Berthoud, Colorado to explain: “This photo is NOT upside down – but the frame was, when the bees made it. This colony had been hit by a bear and the queen was killed. The bees made several queen cells on the upside-down frame. …
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Q Do young bees learn from older bees? I was reading a book by Lars Chittka, “The Mind of the Bee,” that presents research on bee intelligence and learning. I received seven packages of bees from California this spring to my bee yard in Washington state. I began to wonder if these young bees might …
Read MoreSummer has flown, and it is September already! There are just a couple of jobs left to take care of in our hives this season. Here in Colorado, and in much of the lower 48, by October it will be too cold for the bees to repair the propolis seals if they are broken. Therefore, …
Read MoreLast week, my neighbor’s boy, a precocious middle schooler with floppy blond hair and an obsession with action characters, told me lots of animals make swarms, not just honey bees. He made sure I knew about starlings and sardines, mosquitoes and wildebeests. As he segued into an inventory of LEGO pieces lost and never found, …
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