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! 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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We Need All the Bees, and They Need Us
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Matt Mulica, Honey Bee Health Coalition For at least 3,000 years, humans have taken on the responsibility of ensuring honey bees have adequate food in exchange for honey and pollination. Especially in recent…
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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 Bees By: Becky Masterman Beekeepers keep a threat list based on beekeeping experiences. The longer you have been a beekeeper, the lengthier your list of beekeeping menaces might be.…
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The Hidden Skill That Can Turn Any Good Beekeeper Into a Great One Part 2
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 Most beekeepers, during their first few years, (myself included) seem to inspect their bees in a predictable way. We inspect our bees by focusing on individual parts rather than seeing…
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You Got This: Tips for Solo Beekeepers 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! By: Theresa J. Martin I am a solo beekeeper by choice. Though I regularly assist other beekeepers, and they offer to return the favor, I prefer beekeeping alone. I enjoy the solitude, the…
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The 2026 Swarming Season
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! An Annual Event By: James E. Tew Over and again Oh, no! Not swarming – not again. How many times have you read articles or listened to presentations on the subject of swarming?…
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The Trojan Nut
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 A long time ago, the Spartan king Menelaus married the most beautiful woman in all the land, Helen. She was the envy of everyone’s eye (especially those one-eyed cyclopes over…
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Observations of Apis Laboriosa: Nesting Patterns, Migration, and High-Altitude Foraging Behavior
By: Rashmi Kandel Apis laboriosa, scientifically known as the giant Himalayan honey bee, displays unique behaviors not present in other species of bees. Their hives are huge, extending several metres, different from what’s normally found around us, and are hidden on the overhangs of cliffs high as hundreds of metres high above the ground. The…