bee culture blog

Improving Cherry Harvest

Pollination By More Than One Bee Species Improves Cherry Harvest University of Gothenburg To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, trees should be pollinated by…

Migratory Beekeeping

Six Months on the Road: Inside the World of Migratory Beekeeping Emily Baron Cadloff Bees and other pollinators are a hardworking but often forgotten…

Budburst!

Promoting citizen science about pollinators By Maria de Bruyn Contributing Correspondent/Columnist During the sunny afternoon of October 7th at the Chapel Hill Public Library (CHPL), interested…

Bumblebee Research

Bumblebee research sparks rapid industry change By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle A Cornell study that revealed commercial eastern common bumblebee hives pose a threat to…

Honey Bees Inspiring Robotics

How Honey Bees Inspire Advanced Robotics And AI Macquarie University Bees make decisions better and faster than we do, for the things that matter…

The 4 P’s, Breeding and Bees

Breeding, Bees, and the 4 Ps Posted by Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications in Research and Science After suffering severe winter losses beginning in 2007, the…

Australia’s Varroa Opportunity

Opinion: Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t by Scarlett Howard, Alexander Mikheyev,…

Brooklyn Beekeeping

The Brooklyn Museum maintains two rooftop beehives, and several more New York museums are joining the apiculture craze Annabel Keenan Brooklyn is buzzing. Sitting…

Why Does Honey Crystallize?

Why Does Honey Crystallize? (And How Do You Bring It Back to Life If It Does?) BY ANNA HEZEL When archaeologists excavated King Tut’s tomb…

Amiflex – New Varroa Control

Amiflex – New varroa mite treatment for commercial beekeepers in the USA 26 april 2023 Fight varroa mites Véto-pharma just obtained the EPA federal registration…

San Francisco Beekeeping

Shepherds of The City: the life of urban beekeepers By Margaret Hetherwick | Examiner staff writer Beekeeper Kevin McKean pulls a frame partially filled…

Serious About Saving Honey Bees

Being Serious about Saving Bees Posted by Dr. Ann Bartuska Pollinators are a vital part of agricultural production. In the United States, more than…

The Royal Glands

of the Honey Bee By: Ed Erwin The hypopharyngeal glands could easily be considered “The Royal Glands of the Honey Bee,” since they secrete…

Interview with an Inventor

Stuart Roweth By: Tina Sebestyen I first became acquainted with Stuart Roweth, who lives in England, after reading about his invention, the Bee Gym,…

Honey at Congressional Cemetery

The cemetery’s honey is said to be some of the best in town. WRITTEN BY DAVID ANDREWS | PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID ANDREWS You’ll soon be able to…

Colorado’s Biggest Corporations Saving Bees

Colorado’s biggest corporations are investing in saving bees Industry giants in Colorado host hives as way to support surrounding ecosystems By MEGAN ULU-LANI BOYANTON | mboyanton@denverpost.com | The Denver…

Propolis

and Wound Care Management By: Raylynn White Propolis is a resinous substance with varying colors and consistencies created by the Apis mellifera from several…

The Beekeeper and the Big Bad Monk

By: Stephen Bishop Once upon a time, a young downtrodden beekeeper, Fred, slogged up a mountain to visit a beekeeping monk. He was the…

USDA NIFA Funded Researcher

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is highlighting NIFA-funded researcher Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu who serves as an associate professor at Mississippi…

Worlds First Robotic Beekeeper

Israeli startup Beewise is reinventing beekeeping through AI technology and automation, and significantly improving pollination and honey yields with its smart, networked hives. Honeybees,…