Category: Minding Your Bees and Cues
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
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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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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! Varroa vs. World: Winter Games Edition By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Next year’s Beekeeping season is still in the future, untouched by the realities and limitations of timing, weather, blooms, bees, and…
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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!Read along below! Declan Schroeder, Virologist By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel This month, we spoke with Declan Schroeder, Associate Professor of Virology in the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine. For over…
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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! Come Hither! By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel We haven’t been shy about declaring our love for colonies emitting the lemony scent of Nasonov pheromone from the ends of their abdomens. We are…
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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! Exploring a Minnesota Beekeeping Family History By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel | Guest Writer/Contributor: Anne Pierce We were recently contacted by a new member of the Minnesota Honey Producers Association (soon to…
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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! This Might Sting, Part 2 By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Bee Venom We promised to investigate the benefits of bee venom for you. Humans have known that the sting of a honey…
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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! This Might Sting Part 1By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Bee Venom If the rose is symbolic of beauty and suffering, the honey bee doubles down by delivering extreme sweetness and pain. If…
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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! In Praise of the Dandelion By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel Praise the dandelion! Friendly organizer against green lawns! Protester of perfection! Passionate propagator of yellow orbs. We do admire this tap-rooted trickster…