CATCH THE BUZZ – MANN LAKE ACQUIRES KELLEY BEEKEEPING
HACKENSACK, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mann Lake Ltd. (“Mann Lake”) has completed a management buyout with the support of Grey Mountain Partners (“Grey Mountain”). Mann Lake is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Young Harris Beekeeping Institute Coming In May. Don’t Miss It!
Hello Fellow Beekeepers, We wanted to make you aware of the 28th annual Young Harris Beekeeping Institute, May 22-25, on the campus of Young…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sentinel Apiary Program – Find Out How You are Doing, and How Everybody Else is Doing. It’s The Wave of the Future. Sign Up Today!!
Bee Informed Partnership: Sentinel Apiary Program: Calling all beekeepers! What is the Sentinel Apiary Program? The Sentinel Apiary Program is a colony health monitoring…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Propolis Power-Up: How Beekeepers Can Encourage Resin Deposits for Better Hive Health.
By: Andrew Porterfield – Entomology Today Propolis is a pliable, resinous mixture that honey bees (Apis mellifera) create by mixing a variety of plant…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agricultural Census Shows Ag of the Middle Continues to Shrink.
Washington, DC, April 11, 2019 – A new census design and improved data collection methods promised to produce a 2017 Census of Agriculture that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The First Bee Audacious Conference Put Heads Together to Identify Problems and Solutions to Pollinator Problem. Habitat Was a Big Problem.
Bee Audacious: Bay Area pollinator habitat dialogue conference May 1st We wanted to let you know about an upcoming dialogue conference scheduled for May…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Citrus Greening Has Florida Citrus Crop Down 86% This Year.
Scott Powers A decade of ravages by citrus greening has left Florida with only the hard-core of committed growers, less than a third as…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Come to Bee Culture’s BEETALK This Month For Two Hours of Just Talking Bees. How Cool is That?
BEETALK, a Medina Event, with Kim Flottum, Bee Culture’s Editor. You are welcome to join us on Tuesday evening, April 16 at 6:30 pm…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manuka Plant Samples from 1769 Still High Quality and Easy to ID.
Alan Harman Robust oil gland linings in historical mānuka samples collected during one of Captain James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand 250 years ago…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Key Observation Was That Orchards Fare Best When They Have a Diverse Community of Bees Flying in From Natural Habitats.
By: Jan Suszkiw A bee on an apple flower…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agriculture Adviser Defends Planned Research Office Moves From D.C.
By: Charles S. Clark Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., The Agriculture Department in late March provided its most detailed defense to date of its controversial…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Removal To Be Illegal In Texas.
Zachary Bauer Bee removal is a common practice for many bee owners. Well, it’s about to become illegal in Texas if an Irving lawmaker…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.Org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Road Trip: How Hive Transportation Puts Stress on Honey Bees
By: Dacotah Melicher, Ph.D. – Entomology Today Transporting honey bees (Apis mellifera) to provide pollination for agriculture is big business. Commercial pollination services maintain…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Three New Podcasts out on www.BeekeepingTodayPodcast.com
Dr. Jonathan Lundgren is a former USDA-ARS soil scientist, having received his PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004. Today he…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Plant Diseases, Pests Ruining Crops, In Some Cases Up To 40% – Just Like Bees!
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pests and diseases are taking a substantial bite out of the world’s five major food crops — in some cases,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Fish and Bees “Talk” with Help from Robot Translators.
Jef Akst One-day-old honey bees gather around a heat-emitting robot (left) while zebrafish swim with a robot in a donut-shaped aquarium. When the bee…
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Why We Produce Nucs And How We Do It – Whether for pleasure or profit, any beekeeper can benefit from producing nucs.
By: Bob Binnie Successful beekeeping in any form is fifty percent science and fifty percent art. In other words, fifty percent science and fifty…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Can Help Monitor Pollution In Cities.
University Of British Columbia Honey from urban bees can tell us how clean a city is and help pinpoint the sources of environmental pollutants…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Best Way to Protect Pollinators is to Keep People on their Land. Pollinators Need People.
James Cook University A global study has concluded that people are essential to conserving the pollinators that maintain and protect biodiversity, agriculture and habitat….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Tech Transfer Teams Offer Hive Inspections, Collect Data and Then Make Recommendations on How to Maintain Healthy Colonies.
By: Lisa Renner As the world faces a declining bee population, California almond growers say they are doing their best to promote bee health….
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