I took this picture of my beehives in April. It was a sunny spring day, and I’d just finished inspecting the hives in my backyard. The Azaleas were blooming pink and white, matching the colors of the beehives. Taylor Guilford, Woodbridge, Virginia
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Q A Sauna for the Bees Hi Jerry! Thanks for all your help and humorous advice through the years, I always enjoy your column and read it first! I have been talking with a fellow apiary inspector about the various gizmos that heat a frame or hive to “kill mites.” The one below says that …
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Overachiever I keep a hive in my backyard as a hobby. I discovered this little lady last spring about 3 feet from the hive … she was so loaded down she couldn’t make it back in! I let her rest then gave her a lift back into the box. Overachiever! Michelle Mettert Fort Wayne, Indiana …
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After the spring nectar flow and swarming have passed, the weather conditions become hotter and drier as summer arrives. During this time, I watch for usurpation swarms. A usurpation swarm is typically a small summer swarm that invades even a numerically strong queen-right colony. The mother queen of the colony is eliminated and replaced by …
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Approximately 1.5 million honey bee colonies are currently used to pollinate ~950,000 acres of nut-producing almond trees in California. Since the estimated number of colonies in the United States is ~2.6 million according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, that means nearly 60% of the country’s managed honey bees are flying around in California …
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I once described trapping out as a not-so-satisfactory way of removing a colony of bees from an enclosed structure or tree. Trapping requires much beekeeper input during a multi-step process. Even when things go well, a trap-out can leave a dead queen and her brood to decay, and may allow untended honey stores to ferment …
Read MoreST. LOUIS – Feed a Bee, the national pollinator forage initiative by Bayer, has reached its goal of awarding grants supporting diverse forage for honey bees and other pollinators in all 50 states. The 50th recipient awarded recently was Gateway to the Arctic Camp in Talkeetna, Alaska. Dedicated to service and agriculture, the nonprofit camp …
Read MoreNational Corn Growers Association, U.S. Canola Association partner with Coalition to develop best practices growers can use to reduce risk to honey bees, other pollinators Two Honey Bee Health Coalition member organizations — the National Corn Growers Association and the U.S. Canola Association — recently unveiled best management practices for growers to help protect bees …
Read MoreInnovative row crop mapping system benefits FieldWatch usersin Arkansas and three additional states as California and Maryland join the national registry ST. LOUIS (March 5, 2019) – FieldWatch, Inc®, a non-profit company that enhances communication and stewardship among diverse agriculture stakeholders, expands its online mapping system technology and welcomes California and Maryland as new member …
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The biggest challenge I faced as a new beekeeper, and well into my beekeeping career, was splitting my colonies successfully. Some methods resulted in too few bees staying with the split. Some were not effective in preventing the bees from swarming. Even after I figured out how to make the split successful for both the …
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