Honey bees don’t just bring home nectar — they also bring home pollution, making honey an excellent indicator of environmental contamination As I stir a teaspoon of honey into my coffee, I humbly dwell on the effort that went into creating that sweet spoonful. How many bees touched that nectar? How many flowers? Across what …
Read MoreWhat’s Eating My Bees? Arthropod Enemies of Bees in Greece – Part 4 – Spiders John Phipps – 525 Nosema and Dysentery: Are They Really Related? Randy Oliver – 547 Bee Club Activity: Making Oxalic Acid Vaporizers for About $30 Steve Winchell – 551 The Pesticide Situation: Part 5 — Reinventing Nature Randy Oliver – …
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Catching a swarm is about the most fun you will have as a beekeeper. You occupy a front-row seat to one of nature’s most fascinating shows. You’re held in awe ― even celebrated as a hero ― by those who called you in. And, with any luck, you come away with free bees! Photo by …
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Q FIRST YEAR Casey Buckles here, first time/first year beekeeper. Just a few quick questions: Is it normal to have carpenter ants greeting you each time you take off the telescope cover? There are little strips of mold between the second brood box frames and the top of the inner cover, should I leave it? …
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MY PROPOLIS CLEANING CREW I live on the beachside in east-central Florida just east of Melbourne (town of Indialantic). Although there are a few negatives to beekeeping here (e.g. wild colonies are often Africanized, woodenware rots much faster, and queens wear out twice as fast), there are some decided positives as well. These include beekeeping …
Read MoreInteractive maps offer information about reported pesticide drift cases in Iowa, presented to illustrate hazards and to provide guidance to reduce future drift cases. In recent years, Iowa farmers and rural residents have raised concerns about pesticide sprays drifting off of intended fields. Since 2016, farm organizations and rural citizens have contacted researchers in the …
Read MoreNew work suggests that fipronil, not imidacloprid, caused mass mortalities of honey bees: Mass mortalities of honey bees occurred in France in the 1990s coincident with the introduction of two agricultural insecticides, imidacloprid and fipronil. Imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid, was widely blamed, but the differential potency of imidacloprid and fipronil has been unclear because of uncertainty …
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Bees for Development has a long history of sharing its experiences in other countries with some lucky UK beekeepers. In fact, next year will see the twentieth anniversary of our ever-popular ‘Safari’ to the Islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where our host and Trustee Gladstone Solomon introduces holidaymakers to tropical beekeeping with both European and …
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It happens to nearly every beekeeper. You plant an array of flowering plants — from annual poppies to honeysuckle vines to crabapple trees — all tenderly selected to entice your darlings to forage. On the first balmy spring day, you watch your bees missile out of their hive and into the blue, but when you …
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Mushroom extracts might help honey bees fight off viruses, but many questions remain I can’t go for a walk in the woods without stopping to examine, poke, and sniff every mushroom I stumble upon. Every fall, I harvest as many chanterelles, hedgehogs, shaggy manes, cauliflowers, and delicious milky caps as I can reasonably process and …
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