Category: Columns
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Stacking the Odds in Favor of VSH By: Richard Wahl Previous Month RecapIn last month’s article, “Raising VSH Queens”, I moved beyond the label and explained the traits of Varroa…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
By: Becky Masterman Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Honey Production Behind every bumper honey crop is a nectar flow. Some call it a honey flow. Frank Pellett, author of American Honey Plants, summarized honey production as being “dependent…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Raising VSH Queens By: Richard Wahl VSH SignificanceIf you have been keeping bees for any length of time, you have already met the limiting factor in today’s beekeeping environment: the…
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! For the Love of Eggs By: Becky Masterman While the 2026 class of brand-new beekeepers are hunting for eggs in newly drawn beeswax comb, scientists are busy studying them (the eggs, not the…
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Bee Vet
Click Here if you watched/listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Bee Birthdays? By: Tracy Farone Happy Spring – Happy Birthday! Every year in March, I turn another year older. For those of us that have had more than a few, we may not…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Vertical Splits, The Demaree Method By: Richard Wahl Intro When I began working with bees as a result of a swarm catch in 2010 I never imagined that I would…
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Found in Translation
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Your Honey’s Secrets By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Last month, I discussed DNA fingerprints left behind by bees and their associates as they crawl over hive surfaces. There are now many…
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Off the Wahl Beekeeping
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! New(ish) Beekeeper Column Robbing and DIY Robbing Screens By: Richard Wahl Robbing Season Honey bee robbing occurs when foragers from one colony decide to invade another colony to steal honey or nectar. Robbing…