From sneezes to beezes: A honey bee collects bright yellow pollen from a species of Ambrosia, commonly known as ragweed, in the Asteraceae (aster) family. Ragweed is better known as an irritant for allergy sufferers, but as it turns out, our bees have some use for it as well. Photo by Steve Van Meter of …
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On a brief warm sunny afternoon, I hived five packages of bees (see Figure 1), knowing a cold night was coming. When I had my 50 packages, mentioned in the previous article, I hived them in two big 25-hive apiaries in two days. At the time, none of my neighboring beekeepers had ever done that. …
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Location, location, location. Any real estate agent will tell you it’s critical. But does the same rule apply to bees? In other words, if you could construct the optimal real estate for bees, what would it look like? Lots of wooded areas? Flowering crops? And what bees are we talking about, exactly? The western honey …
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No one knows exactly when some of the ancient hunting wasps stopped chasing their meals and opted for veggies. We simply don’t have detailed records of early transitional species. What we do know is that some descendants of the early Crabronidae family of wasps gave up meat in favor of pollen, eventually becoming bees. By …
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Q Flowers….We Need More Hi Jerry, I was listening to a podcast today, found at: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/looking-beyond-honeybees/ As I venture into the world of queen rearing in my relatively remote piece of land in Southeastern Ontario, I’ve been doing some thinking about some of Tom Seeley’s research that has been published in ABJ on the feral …
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Spring is the most dangerous time of year for honey bees. They typically begin brood rearing at about the winter solstice, and thus need to keep the brood chamber warmer for the babies, besides producing all those extra mouths to feed. This is when they really begin to use up their honey stores more rapidly. …
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Battered and beaten, these old hive boxes have been set aside in favor of newer, stronger wood. Like the creased visages of old men, their weather-worn faces are a testament to years of service, housing and protecting the vibrant yet fragile organism that is the honey bee colony. Many of these boxes are destined for …
Read MoreBeekeeping Basics: The Winter Check Tina Sebestyen – 157 Gregor Mendel the Beekeeper Norman L. Carreck – 167 Treatment-free Beekeeping: A Practical Hands-On Approach — Part 2 Terry Combs – 173 Building a Small Bee Trailer William Blomstedt – 177 Beekeeping in an Era of Mosquito Control for Zika Virus and West Nile Virus David E. Arnal – 183 The Pesticide Situation …
Read MoreSue Hubbell When I first kept bees, about 30 years ago, the bee inspector of my county loaned me a paperback copy of Sue’s “A Book of Bees and How to Keep Them.” Later a friend gave me a hardback copy of the first edition of the book which I have treasured. Her ability to …
Read MoreSt. Louis, Missouri – ApisProtect had its principal executives in St. Louis on October 18th to begin the USA science validation phase of its previous published work in the use of IoT technology and machine learning for the improvement of honeybee health. The rollout in St. Louis will involve 24/7 monitoring of 15 honeybee hives …
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