CATCH THE BUZZ – 2018 Irrigation and Water Management Data now Available!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2019 – There were 231,474 farms with 55.9 million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water applied in the…
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The Promise Of Standardized Data
Author: Joseph Cazier, Edgar Hassler, James T. Wilkes, Max A. Rünzel, Giovanni Formato, Robert Brodschneider Many readers of this series in Bee Culture will recall…
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Bees In Space
Author: Ross Conrad This past year marked the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon as part of the National Aeronautics…
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The Story of A. I. Root
Authot: A.I. Root About the year 1870 a stranger called who wanted to talk about bees. I was just then getting ready to go…
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Why Comb Rotation is Important
Author: Bob Binnie Whenever beekeepers report problems such as premature queen failure, sick brood, or excessive and repeated colony losses, one of the first…
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Bees In A Changing Climate
Author: M.E.A. McNeil Bee by bee, flower by flower, scientists are asking how climate change effects pollinators, and half a day was dedicated to their…
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Inner Cover
Author: Kim Flottum An interesting and educational week in Montreal. Over 5000 people attended we’re told, but I suspect there were actually more. Hundreds…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Free Planting Guides for Farmers Planting Cover Crops, and, Florida Wants a Honey Bee License Plate.
Bill Spiegel – Successful Farming Staff Farmers who want to start growing cover crops can turn to “recipes” on the Midwest Cover Crops Council website….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Researchers Have Analyzed How Paralysis Virus Hijacks the Cellular Protein Production Machinery and Misuses It for Its Own Purposes
The Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus is a pathogen that affects honey bees and has been linked to Colony Collapse Disorder, a key factor in…
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The Measures Of Success
By: Ross Conrad Achieving success as a beekeeper can be elusive. It is a goal that is often based on factors that are changing…
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Basic Beekeeping Is Not Just For Beginners
By: Dr. James E. Tew Basic beekeeping is fine Among my many annoying characteristics, I have a particular one that especially frays my immediate…
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Summers Time
By: Kathy Summers Things Are Always Changing Nothing ever stays the same forever – or does it. I’ve been at this job for what…
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Inner Cover
By: Kim Flottum It’s been a quiet month here in the Spieth Road Beeyard. The weather settled, kind of, and things started to dry…
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Are You Listening
By: Apis M. Mellifera On Help From Above At this time, the Board Of Directors has asked me to communicate its sense of unease…
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The Story of A.I. Root
By: A.I. Root In the year 1866 I had a light colony, or rather nucleus that I put into the cellar. This cellar was…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Are Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Critical for Protecting Crops—or Unnecessary, with Potential to Harm Bees?
By: Paul McDivitt Neonicotinoids, the world’s most popular class of insecticides, have been making headlines for the last decade due to concerns that they negatively…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Grimshaw Beekeeping Family Awarded 2019 BMO Farm Family Award.
Emma Mason, Staff The Mighty Peace Honey farm in Grimshaw (Supplied by Andrew Dickson) A family of beekeepers in Grimshaw are one of 13…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Crop Insurance for Beekeepers Application Deadline Is November 15. Don’t Delay!
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (USDA RMA) are reminding Florida pasture,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Honey Abuzz With High-Value Antibacterial Activity, and, Cypriot Honey Best in the World.
By: University of Technology – Sydney Australia has at least seven Leptospermum species that produce honey with exceptionally high levels of antibacterial activity, providing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ALL AROUND THE BEEYARD is a Regular Column in Bee Culture, Written by Our Readers For Our Readers. How to Solve Those Tricky Problems.
Have you figured out a way to fix it, move it, make it, shake it, show it, know it, record it, get to it,…
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