EPA HOLDS PUBLIC MEETING ON REVISIONS TO DRAFT FRAMEWORK ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROCESS FOR PESTICIDES

Posted July 1, 2019

EPA HOLDS PUBLIC MEETING ON REVISIONS TO DRAFT FRAMEWORK ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROCESS FOR PESTICIDES

Revisions respond to 2018 Farm Bill requirements to streamline and improve the process the agency follows to review the impacts pesticides have on endangered species WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking comment on draft revisions to the framework used to evaluate the impacts pesticides have on endangered species under the …

Washington State Beekeepers protected from civil liability

Posted July 1, 2019

WASHINGTON STATE BEEKEEPERS NOW PROTECTED FROM CIVIL LIABILITY

May 7, 2019, Olympia, WA: Today Governor Jay Inslee signed into law a bill which grants liability protection to beekeepers. House Bill 1133 passed the House by a vote of 96-0 and passed the Senate by a vote of 47-1. The new law grants protection from civil liability to beekeepers who register with the state …

Posted July 1, 2019

Letters to the Editor – July 2019

Purple Pollen One of my girls came home with purple pollen. We have wild artichoke all over our property and the bees love it. Sincerely, Juli Tafoya Dripping Springs, Texas How Dominant Are We? Kirk Webster writes: “We dominate the landscape more completely than any other living thing has ever done in the history of …

Posted July 1, 2019

A Swarm Call Leading to Something New

After a long day of teaching, Suzanne and I finally arrived home. As usual, she checked the answering machine while I scampered away. Hearing her calling me, and hearing something about a swarm, a sensitive word in the spring, I knew my workday was not over. Replaying the message, it seemed like the bees were …

Posted July 1, 2019

A roadmap for how to minimize pesticide risk to bees

Every three years, many of the main players who are working to understand and improve pollinator health get together at the International Conference on Pollinator Biology Health and Policy (also called the “International Pollinator Conference”). This year’s conference is from July 17-20 at the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (https://honey.ucdavis.edu/pollinatorconference2019) and the theme is …

Posted July 1, 2019

Immigrant Bees that Colonized North America

While humans were busy squabbling over the border between the United States and Mexico, a tiny black immigrant bee was discreetly homesteading in California. A new sighting of a Central American native bee, a member of the genus Plebeia, was recently reported in a genteel area of Palo Alto, some 500 miles to the north …

Posted July 1, 2019

The Classroom – July 2019

AGGRESSIVE POOP BOMBS I have said it before, anybody that says they know all about honey bees is a liar. Here is a ‘Jerry’ new experience that took 35 years to occur. You’ve got to be in the right place at the right time for this stuff. :) I went outside to look at colonies. …

Posted July 1, 2019

U.S. Honey Crops and Markets

United States Winter may have been long and cold (and very white in some places), and spring may have been late, cool and wet, but we’re hearing from most of the country that all that moisture in the ground points to a nice crop of 2019 honey. Northeast It was a cool, wet spring in …

Posted July 1, 2019

Winter in July?

We beekeepers breathe a sigh of relief once we make it past swarm and split season. It seems like we can take a little break and not worry about the bees. However, there are still things that need to be taken care of. First, if it is your colony’s first year in a new hive, …

Posted July 1, 2019

July 2019

The Enigma of Nosema Randy Oliver – 777 Management Style Comparison, Part 2 — Measurements and Conclusions Justin Kay – 803 Going to Apimondia? September 8-12 in Montreal – 809 Queen Quandary: Challenges in Honey Bee Queen Rearing in Atlantic Canada Robyn McCallum and Kathleen Glasgow – 813 The Spread of the Small Hive Beetle …

EPA HOLDS PUBLIC MEETING ON REVISIONS TO DRAFT FRAMEWORK ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROCESS FOR PESTICIDES

Posted July 1, 2019