Imagine a world where the effects of drinking a beer never wear off because the human body can’t break down the alcohol and eliminate it. As a person drinks more beer, the alcohol in their blood builds up to higher and higher levels – it bioaccumulates. In this world, even occasional beers could kill. What …
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Imagine e-mailing someone you met once, three years earlier at a beekeeping seminar. In a short note you write, “Why don’t I come visit you? You can feed me, entertain me, and chauffeur me around until I decide to leave. Won’t that be fun?” Being an introverted recluse, this is unimaginable to me. The idea …
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One of the things I love most about beekeeping is the intrigue, the mystery. Studies show that it is not the finding of a treasure that provides happiness, it is the seeking. We beekeepers should be eternally happy, in that case, because we will always be seeking answers. On the other hand, one of the …
Read MoreBee Innovative: A Report on the 2019 ABF Conference Charles and Karen Lorence – 267 Diagnosing a Dead-out Tina Sebestyen – 269 Poland, The Only Country Where Instrumentally Inseminated Queens Are Routinely Used In Commercial Production Colonies Sue Cobey, Małgorzata Bieńkowska, Jerzy Wilde, Jakub Gąbka – 275 The Pesticide Situation — Part 3 — Future …
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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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