New For The Beekeeper-
Bee Magical Jewelry. I hand-make little bumblebee wish bracelets and sell them to raise awareness for saving the bees! All my…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby There’s A Time For Everything I used to dream that I was in college again, with finals approaching, and it would…
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Let’s Be A Beekeeper In England
By: Ann Harman Just for fun, let’s move to a cottage just outside a village in England and have four hives of bees in…
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Save the Bees!
By: Ross Conrad You can eat the larvae. Given current projections, by the year 2050 there will be approximately nine billion people living on…
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Using Your Extractor
By: Jim Thompson I saw a discussion on the internet that asked how to use the extractor that a person had purchased. That started…
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Bigger Picture
By: Jessica Louque Bird Collecting – Ducklings of Spring Usually around this time of year, I have an article or two that centers around…
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Beeyard Thoughts, Observations, and Updates
By: James Tew Flower gardening discussion and issues for the beekeeping non-gardener – that would include me, too. My two bee worlds I can…
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The Wicker Man- The Eye Of The Beholder
By: Ryan McDearmont For better or worse, Nicolas Cage is one of American cinema’s most enduring icons. The now 54-year-old actor has starred in…
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Summer Management In The Southeast U.S.
By: David MacFawn Summer management in the southeast, such as South Carolina, usually starts in June and continues through September. By the end of…
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Replaceable?
By: Stephen Bishop Proper beekeeping jargon dictates that the term hive means the box, the boards nailed and glued, which house the many thousand…
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Sleep Deprivation
By: Antonia DeGroot & Gard Otis It may come as a surprise to learn that honey bees sleep, and that sleep is a fundamental…
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Bee Kid’s Corner
Treatment Timing
By: Bill Ruzicka Dear Friends: During the hot part of the season I receive many calls and Emails: IM BEING TOLD THAT IN THIS HEAT…
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A Closer Look
By: Clarence Collison A TEMPORAL POLYETHISM The regulation of age-based division of labor among workers demands a high level of colony integration. Honey bee…
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The Hive Mind
By: Peter Borst When I first got interested in honey bees, I had this feeling there was something unknown waiting to be discovered in…
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The Technology Acceptance Model – Nudging Beekeepers Into The Future
By: Joseph Cazier, James Wilkes, Edgar Hassler Introduction In the April issue of Bee Culture we introduced the concept of a Genius Hive. Then…
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Synthetic Pollination & Invasive Species
By: Will Caverly Breathless reports tell that us flights of artificial pollinators will arrive any minute. A scientist at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced…
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Bullying – If It’s Different Is It Wrong?
Editorial By: Albert Chubak Bullying is not only exhibited by young people, it may be the office jerk who you wish would just quit. Bullying…
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It’s Summers Time!
California and North Carolina, and A Funny Chicken Story. The month of April was a busy month for us. But it was great. Kim…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
By: Jay Evans Holding The Line On Trait Rot and Inbreeding This month I describe three challenges in bee breeding along with recent efforts…
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