Tag: Articles
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Minding Your Bees and Cues
By: Becky Masterman Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Honey Production Behind every bumper honey crop is a nectar flow. Some call it a honey flow. Frank Pellett, author of American Honey Plants, summarized honey production as being “dependent…
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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! Breeding Back Viruses By: Jay Evans Spring! Great food coming in, bees that are becalmed by the mild temperatures, more daylight after work, a great time to be alive. For your beehives that…
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Interview With Leading Entomologist Dr. Sammy Ramsey
On National Geographic’s Secrets of the Bees Jerry Hayes & Dr. Samuel Ramsey National Geographic’s Secrets of the Bees will be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu beginning April 1. Dr. SammyAll right. JerryAll right. What do you want us to talk about? Well, how are you doing, Sammy? Dr. SammyI’m doing really well,…
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Beekeeping Self Defense
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 The flap and yap should not be confused with the flail and wail or, for that matter, the flailing whale. The first is a simple self-defense combo. In that regard,…
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How to Overcome Queen Acceptance Challenges 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: David Burns We all know the feeling of spending forty dollars for a new queen and another forty dollars for overnight shipping only to have her not be accepted in our queenless…
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You Got This: Tips for Solo Beekeepers 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: Theresa J. Martin In this multi-part series, we are exploring methods that make solo beekeeping more safe, efficient, and enjoyable. Last month, we reviewed the pros and cons of being a solo…
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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 Raising VSH Queens By: Richard Wahl VSH SignificanceIf you have been keeping bees for any length of time, you have already met the limiting factor in today’s beekeeping environment: the…
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Human Superiority
Species Superiority and the Rights of Nature Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad In last month’s Bee Culture article, I mentioned the recent granting of legal rights to stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon. The granting…