Go With What We Know
By: Jennifer Berry Use Methods For Controlling Varroa That Are Tested, Legal and Work Last year, a new method of using oxalic acid (OA)…
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BEEWEEK IN BRUSSELS
By: Joseph Cazier Why Americans Should Care Introduction From June 26-28, 2018 the European Parliament hosted the seventh annual BeeWeek in Brussels, Belgium. I was…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australia Honey has Unique Pollen Signature.
Australian honey, produced from domesticated European honey bees mostly foraging in native vegetation, is unique. Under the microscope, most Australian honey samples can be…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Technology Makes Commercial Beekeeping More Efficient, Profitable
In an effort to provide beekeepers with a more effective and comprehensive management system, two Healthy Hives 2020 grant recipients recently announced a new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – UF’s New Honey Bee Lab Will Support Beekeeping, Agriculture
Samantha Grenrock GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty percent of the food we eat is made possible by honey bees. And behind each of these hardworking…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Costco/PAm Scholarships Invest In Honey Bee Research. Over $550,000 So Far.
Sarah Yaddaw, Communications Director PAm Meet Project Apis m’s Board of Directors July 21 on the KIM&JIM show. Watch for details and time on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Australian Scientists Taught Bees the Concept of Zero — Something Human Children Struggle With.
By: Brian Resnick Zero, zilch, nothing, is a pretty hard concept to understand. Children generally can’t grasp it until kindergarten. And it’s a concept that…
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IPM Research At The University Of British Columbia
By: Shelley Tomlinson Biologists, beekeepers and economists are all working together at the University of British Columbia (UBC) to help beekeepers deal with challenges…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Two Healthy Bees 2020 Webinars During Pollinator Week. Commercial Beekeeping Plans and Deformed Wing Virus Update.
REGISTER FOR THESE WEBINARS HERE: https://www.beeculture.com/kimandjimshow/ June 19, 2018, 12 – 1 p.m. EDT Hive Management 2.0: Developing a Practical Tool for Commercial Beekeepers…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – BIP Launches First Social Science Survey – Please Participate!
Hi there! As beekeepers, we all love to talk about bees and why we love what we do. Most surveys focus on the bees…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – La Nina is dead. Long live El Nino? Is El Nino Coming Back?
Wildfires charge across western Oklahoma in April 2018 – © Oklahoma State University Ag Communications Services Stillwater, OK 74078 By Bloomberg La Nina is dead….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Supports Specialty Crop Industry with Multi-State Initiatives.
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2018 (USDA release) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday announced the funding of $7 million to support 11…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ABRC Abstracts Available. A Gold Mine of Information!
The 2018 American Bee Research Conference (ABRC) was held January 11–12, 2018 at the Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV. Over the two-day conference, a…
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Processing Honey: A Closer Look
By: Bob Binnie The debate on what constitutes good food seems to be endless. Diets abound with notions that are as varied as the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Agricultural Appropriations Bill Up For Funding. Write these Congressmen to make sure it works.
Concise group statement pasted below. Complements and reinforces the Letter sent by CP2C co-chairs Jeff Denham (R-CA) and Alcee Hastings (D-FL) and 21…
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Peering Into The Future A Path To The Genius Hive
By: Joseph Cazier The Genius hive will be able to tell you what it needs to do better. Introduction Many of the changes we are…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – War Dance of the Honey Bee.
By: Karl Gruber | February 1, 2018 , The Scientist Magazine The paper A. Fujiwara et al., “First report on the emergency dance of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Manuka Honey Goes from Monofloral 5 to Multifloral 1, and Is Now Called Multifloral Manuka Honey.
Ministry For Primary Industries The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) (similar to USDA in US) has reissued the General Requirements for Bee…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Keeping Your Honey Waiting By: Jay Evans As a scientist, I notice and tuck away lots of recent articles on topics that relate to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Heat Patterns Serve As Signatures For Flowers To Passing Bees.
Heat plays an important role in flower-pollinator interactions. According to new research, heat patterns serve as signatures for flowers, advertising their availability to passing…
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