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. …
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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 …
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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, …
Read MoreThe 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 …
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Water collection becomes increasingly important as we head into the hot summer months. Joan Fox took this exquisite photo of a honey bee on Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) in Tucson, Arizona. Housebound after a serious car accident, Joan was led by her camera’s eye to her front and back yards and to a world of …
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We need better tools to diagnose queen failure The queen is special. So special, she is the only bee with the privilege of sporting a bright polka dot, marking her birth year. When we work through a hive, she is the only bee met with an exclamation — “Found her!” — upon spotting. And she …
Read More Q A Few Questions I am back with a few questions. Now I don’t care if it is a long Jerry answer or a short one but if you know anything about answers I’d appreciate hearing from you. First question, why does sorghum honey ferment when granulating but not otherwise? Second question, does it work …
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Disrupting a single gene causes genetically female embryos to develop as males. There’s a lot more to honey bee sex determination than most of us think. When we were new honey bee enthusiasts, what makes a bee male or female was probably one of the first bee biology facts that we learned: Eggs with one …
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Being able to find the queen is a thrill, every time. Of course, it is not imperative that beekeepers actually lay eyes on the queen each time they inspect their colonies, since the presence of eggs (and young larvae, to a lesser extent) is confirmation that she is present and doing her job. Sometimes, though, …
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The year was 1894 and the American Bee Journal was published weekly (see Figure 1). Fifty-two issues rapidly filled two volumes (33 and 34), the numbers running from one to 26 in each volume. With about 60 pages in midsize format, the publication schedule must have been intense with various submitted articles, more steady column …
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