CATCH THE BUZZ – Vending Machine at Jacksonville’s Avenues Mall Dispenses Honey
By: Stacey Readout A vending machine that dispenses honey is now at the Avenues Mall. (Photo courtesy: Harry Satur) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Next time you go…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – WSU Researcher Licenses Pollen Suspension While Continuing Electrostatic Research.
Ross Courtney – Pollen is stirred in a spray suspension during research trials in 2015 by Washington State University’s Matt Whiting in Prosser. Whiting…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Young Harris Beekeeping Institute Coming In May. Don’t Miss It!
Hello Fellow Beekeepers, We wanted to make you aware of the 28th annual Young Harris Beekeeping Institute, May 22-25, on the campus of Young…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Sentinel Apiary Program – Find Out How You are Doing, and How Everybody Else is Doing. It’s The Wave of the Future. Sign Up Today!!
Bee Informed Partnership: Sentinel Apiary Program: Calling all beekeepers! What is the Sentinel Apiary Program? The Sentinel Apiary Program is a colony health monitoring…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Propolis Power-Up: How Beekeepers Can Encourage Resin Deposits for Better Hive Health.
By: Andrew Porterfield – Entomology Today Propolis is a pliable, resinous mixture that honey bees (Apis mellifera) create by mixing a variety of plant…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agricultural Census Shows Ag of the Middle Continues to Shrink.
Washington, DC, April 11, 2019 – A new census design and improved data collection methods promised to produce a 2017 Census of Agriculture that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The First Bee Audacious Conference Put Heads Together to Identify Problems and Solutions to Pollinator Problem. Habitat Was a Big Problem.
Bee Audacious: Bay Area pollinator habitat dialogue conference May 1st We wanted to let you know about an upcoming dialogue conference scheduled for May…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Citrus Greening Has Florida Citrus Crop Down 86% This Year.
Scott Powers A decade of ravages by citrus greening has left Florida with only the hard-core of committed growers, less than a third as…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Come to Bee Culture’s BEETALK This Month For Two Hours of Just Talking Bees. How Cool is That?
BEETALK, a Medina Event, with Kim Flottum, Bee Culture’s Editor. You are welcome to join us on Tuesday evening, April 16 at 6:30 pm…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manuka Plant Samples from 1769 Still High Quality and Easy to ID.
Alan Harman Robust oil gland linings in historical mānuka samples collected during one of Captain James Cook’s voyages to New Zealand 250 years ago…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Removal To Be Illegal In Texas.
Zachary Bauer Bee removal is a common practice for many bee owners. Well, it’s about to become illegal in Texas if an Irving lawmaker…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.Org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Road Trip: How Hive Transportation Puts Stress on Honey Bees
By: Dacotah Melicher, Ph.D. – Entomology Today Transporting honey bees (Apis mellifera) to provide pollination for agriculture is big business. Commercial pollination services maintain…
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Why We Produce Nucs And How We Do It – Whether for pleasure or profit, any beekeeper can benefit from producing nucs.
By: Bob Binnie Successful beekeeping in any form is fifty percent science and fifty percent art. In other words, fifty percent science and fifty…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Tech Transfer Teams Offer Hive Inspections, Collect Data and Then Make Recommendations on How to Maintain Healthy Colonies.
By: Lisa Renner As the world faces a declining bee population, California almond growers say they are doing their best to promote bee health….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Rearing Honey Bees Responsibly Requires Education and Careful Management to Help Stop the Spread of Disease.
Matt Robinson Small-scale beekeeping has bloomed in recent years as amateur apiarists have taken to cultivating honey bee colonies of their own to help…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – U. S. Honey Industry worth $4.74 BILLION
Alan Harman The Kim&Jim Show have coming up the first week in April an interview with Margaret Lombard about this report, and other…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Canola Farmers and Beekeepers Have a Vested Interest in Cooperating and Protecting Bees as Much as Possible.
Bees love canola and canola loves bees. That’s why canola farmers and beekeepers have a vested interest in cooperating and protecting bees as much…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Integrity Task Force Forms to Ensure Highest Quality Across All Honey Products.
Industry Group is Working on Multiple Fronts to Protect Honey Purity March 12, 2019 – Representatives from the entire U.S. honey industry have formed a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Mobile Phone Microscope Is Good Enough To Find Nosema Spores In The Field.
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at Barnard College, have developed a mobile-phone microscope that…
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