SIOUX HONEY BEEKEEPERS ESTABLISH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA’S FIRST ANONYMOUS, ALL-HOURS FOOD PANTRIES

Posted January 1, 2020

SIOUX HONEY BEEKEEPERS ESTABLISH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA’S FIRST ANONYMOUS, ALL-HOURS FOOD PANTRIES

FRESNO, Calif. – Those who struggle to put enough food on the table have a new place to turn thanks to a group of local beekeepers. In October, three Sioux Honey Association Co-op members took time away from their hives to install central California’s first documented Little Free Pantries. The co-op installed the first Little …

Posted January 1, 2020

THE BEE INFORMED PARTNERSHIP COULD USE YOUR SUPPORT!

Non-profit seeks donations to support its work on behalf of the nation’s beekeepers The Bee Informed Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to research and collect honey bee health surveillance data and make it available for all to use. We also work closely with a large number of commercial beekeepers across the …

Posted January 1, 2020

January 2020

Nosema — The Causes of Dysentery in Honey Bees Part 7b of a Series Randy Oliver – 45 From the Home Office: A Dadant History from the Beginning Gabe Dadant – 61 Working With Nature: Local Bees and the Best Way to Utilize Northern Queens Kirk Webster – 75 Taking Your Hobby to the Next …

Posted January 1, 2020

ABJ Cover January 2020

Snow blankets Christopher Proctor’s hives in rural Macon, Missouri. Tie-down straps provide insurance against winter winds, but outer protection is deemed unnecessary by most beekeepers in the lower Midwest.

Posted December 1, 2019

Moons Bee World: A Southern Bee Journal from the 1800s.

Old Southern bee journals are notoriously rare. Moon’s Bee World, published in Rome, Georgia, purely intrigued me from the first time I heard about it. Some decades later, I found just one year of the monthly journal, 1874, the second year of its publication. Artistically, the covers were ornately decorated (see Figure 1). In my …

Posted December 1, 2019

When is pollinating almond actually profitable for beekeepers?

The California almond crop is worth $2.2 billion and is estimated to add an additional $21.5 billion to the economy via 104,000 jobs in production, processing, manufacturing, and marketing. Notably, this multibillion-dollar industry is more or less completely reliant on managed honey bees since pollination is required to produce almonds and there are almost no …

Posted December 1, 2019

How to Identify a Honey Bee

Not long ago I received a mysterious-looking package in the mail, a small white box with lots of postage. Inside I found a plastic vial wrapped in sheets of newsprint from The Wichita Eagle. The vial was dressed in a yellow sticky note that read, “I found this honey bee on the porch of my …

Posted December 1, 2019

The Classroom – December 2019

Q too much — or not enough Hi Jerry, One of our local beekeepers asked me the question below. I don’t know the answer so I am forwarding it to you for your expert advice/comment. We are located in Southeastern Pennsylvania. “I have noticed that my bees are coming in loaded with pollen, most of …

Posted December 1, 2019

Making it Last

It is December, and you have completed your first, or another, year of beekeeping. Congratulations! A statistic frequently cited is that about 80% of the people who start beekeeping will quit. I can completely understand why this might be so. To the unsuspecting, it would seem like you could buy a colony and the equipment …

Posted December 1, 2019

Another Mite to Fight

Varroa isn’t the only mite that has jumped hosts to Western honey bees The video was nothing short of frightening. Tiny, brown, slender-bodied creatures were scurrying hither-dither on the rims of the comb, and they were scurrying fast. They were everywhere, and they had places to be. I listened, sitting in the audience at Apimondia, …

SIOUX HONEY BEEKEEPERS ESTABLISH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA’S FIRST ANONYMOUS, ALL-HOURS FOOD PANTRIES

Posted January 1, 2020