Category: Articles
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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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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 Harvesting Honey By: Richard Wahl Honey The primary reason individuals get into the hobby of beekeeping is to at some point be able to collect honey. Although there are those…
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Bees in High Places
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Another swing, another miss. This was supposed to be the year, the year I put everything together. My production hives made it through Winter in great shape. In the fifteen…
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Hidden Beehives
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew (Click on the photos to enlarge them) Nary a hive I just returned from a two-thousand-mile road trip to visit my two brothers and be introduced to some brand-new…
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Winter is Coming
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Warm and Snug Beats Cold and Drafty By: Theresa J. Martin (Click on photos to enlarge) Bees evolved to live in a thick-walled, well-insulated, stuffy, humid tree cavity with a single, small 2-square-inch…
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The Autumn Illusion: Why Healthy Looking Colonies Can Still Collapse
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Fall is a season that allows beekeepers to take a breath. For most beekeepers, we’ve harvested our honey and treated for mites (again) and have equalized our hives by combining…
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Winter Losses
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad Winter colony losses: I regularly come across statements that claim the most serious problem beekeepers face is the Varroa mite. With about a dozen approved acaricides available to U.S. beekeepers,…
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The Auburn Series
How the Auburn University Bee Center is Thinking About Tropilaelaps vs. Varroa Mites By: Dan Aurell (Click on images to enlarge) Basics It is easy to marvel at the abilities of the bees we work with. We admire their ability to build comb to tight specifications, their ability to remember and communicate the location of…