Category: Articles
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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! Thriving in a Chemical World By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Honey bees are susceptible to chemical stresses, especially those that target related pest insects. Consequently, much of the effort that goes…
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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! How to Bribe a Honey Bee By: Becky Masterman & Bridget Mendel About 100 million years ago, plants had a Lightbulb Moment – or more like Era. They were like, what if we…
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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 Communications Within the Colony By: Richard Wahl Methods of CommunicationAs the new beekeeper’s skills improve they will begin to note the ways in which bees use scents, bee dance movements…
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The Brave New World of Beekeeping Created By Our Climate Emergency Part 1
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! A sober look at some of the ways the unsustainable use of fossil fuels is damaging our industry By: Ross Conrad (Click on photos to enlarge) The climate crisis is rapidly changing our…
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And Yet a Few (More) Comments on Honey Bee Swarm Biology and Management (Part 2)
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! The Swarm in Transition to a ColonyBy: James E. Tew In the hive In the April 2025 issue of Bee Culture, I spent my article space discussing some aspects of elementary swarm biology of honey bees…
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2025 ABRC Proceedings
Part 2 https://doi.org/10.55406/ABRC.6.25.2 This is the second part of the ABRC proceedings, including abstracts relating to Nutrition and Foraging, Physiology, Management and Breeding and Extension. Part 1, covering Pesticides, Pathogens and Parasites, Varroa and Hive Pests, was published in the previous issue of Bee Culture (Martin Ewert and Walsh, 2025). Allyson Martin Ewertᵃ,ᵇ, Elizabeth M…
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Part 3 – Take the Temperature of Your Colony
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Varroa Treatments By: Theresa J. Martin I begin by clarifying that BroodMinder does not compensate me in any way for my statements about its product. What I write is my uninfluenced opinion based…
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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! What’s Your Diagnosis?By: Tracy Farone (Click on photos to enlarge) Many things can kill honey bee colonies and often times “the” cause is multiple stressors occurring at the same time or accumulating over time. “What is…