CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Commercial Field Guide
Bee Informed Partnership’s “Commercial Beekeeping: A Field Guide” is now available to the public! At the end of 2019, a collaborative effort that was…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Dogs in NZ Trained to Sniff out AFB
Dogs to detect AFB BEE-SAVING DOGS: A project backed by MPI will seek to train dogs to sniff out the highly infectious bacterial disease…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bee Populations Have Grown
Bee Populations Have Grown 73% in Maine and Are Increasing in Many Other States By: Madeleine Muzdakis Photo: Stock Photos from L_B_O/Shutterstock Environmentalists often…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ALL AROUND THE BEEYARD is a Regular Column in Bee Culture, Written by Our Readers For Our Readers. How to Solve Those Tricky Problems.
Have you figured out a way to fix it, move it, make it, shake it, show it, know it, record it, get to it,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sentinel Apiary Program Monthly Memo: October Issue.
Written By: Kelly Kulhanek Original photo of mite: Julia Stoess Welcome back to yet another Sentinel Apiaries update. We’re coming to you in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Issue Wake-Up Call: Natural Hazard Threats to Pollinators and Pollination.
Global map of the 117 studies reviewed. Kathy Keatley Garvey UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology DAVIS–A newly published first-of-its-kind review involving pollinators,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Climate Change Study Finds That Maple Syrup Season May Come Earlier, and, Studying Bees at Penn State.
Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ALL AROUND THE BEEYARD is a Regular Column in Bee Culture, Written by Our Readers for Our Readers. How to Solve Those Tricky Problems.
Have you figured out a way to fix it, move it, make it, shake it, show it, know it, record it, get to it,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Can Plants Tell Time, and, Robots May Be Pollinators Sooner Than You Think In North Dakota.
IMAGE: A crop field; and David Lyall, Paul Snyder and Kate Lyall Credit: Dr. Antony Dodd; University of Bristol Jenny Schlecht; Forum News Service Could…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Scottish Beekeeper in a Nazi Concentration Camp, and, Honey Bees Delivering Pesticides to Protect Plants.
Company Sergeant Major James Hamilton Savage persuaded the Nazi guards in Stalag 383 to allow him to set up beehives behind the barbed wire…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Solicits Nominations for Veterinary Shortage Areas , and, The Governments of Canada and Ontario Funding The Health of The Province’s Honey Bees and Beekeeping Sector.
John Maday A series of studies and reports have drawn attention to maldistributions in the veterinary workforce leaving some communities, especially rural areas, with insufficient…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manitoba Sees a Short Crop This Year, and Pollen Abundance and Diversity in Major Crops.
By: Geralyn Wichers Beekeepers have seen their honey supply dry up sooner than usual this year. Ian Steppler, vice-chair of the Manitoba Beekeepers Association,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 2019 North American Mite-A-Thon DATE EXTENSION
Mite-A-Thon is a tri-national effort to collect mite infestation data and to visualize Varroa infestations in honey bee colonies across North America within a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ALL AROUND THE BEEYARD is a Regular Column in Bee Culture, Written by our Readers for our Readers. How to Solve Those Tricky Problems.
Have you figured out a way to fix it, move it, make it, shake it, show it, know it, record it, get to it,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Proposes to Close SNAP Automatic Eligibility Loophole
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today proposed closing a loophole that allows states to make participants receiving minimal…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – No Indiana County, City, Town or Township Can Adopt or Continue Any Ordinance, Rule, Regulation or Resolution That Disallows Residents From Keeping Bees on Their Property.
By: Ben Middelkamp – The Greenfield Daily Reporter HANCOCK COUNTY — A newly enacted Indiana law that prohibits local governments from banning beekeeping erases existing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Key is Not Whether They Encounter a Disease – It’s Whether They are Fit and Healthy Enough to Fight it Off.
Alan Harman More intensive beekeeping does not raise the risk of diseases that harm or kill the insects, new research suggests. Intensive agriculture –…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Listen in to Kim Flottum and Jim Tew discuss the issues with safety and liability for beekeepers and beeyards when a new subdivision moves in right next door to Jim’s Beeyard! Yikes!!
Click the link below to listen to Kim Flottum and Jim Tew discuss beekeeper liability and exposure. This one is important. https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/6845373977448194055 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Register…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Say Agriculture is Good for Honey Bees, at Least in Tennessee.
By: Ginger Rowsey, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture In a recent study, researchers with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture found the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sulfoxaflor Continues to Be a Bee Killer.
Michele Colopy, Program Director, Pollinator Stewardship Council, Inc. EPA’s announcement1 to expand the use of Sulfoxaflor means expanded loss of managed and native pollinators. …
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