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Xenophobia
What honey bees have taught me. By: Benjamin Eichorn My dad, Peter, has been keeping honey bees along the central coast of California since the 1960s. Since I learned to walk, I’ve been helping him...
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Bill Sheppard, Jr.
As Good As It Gets For Bees & Beekeepers In NC By: Lane Kreitlow A NC treasure from age six on – Bill was a beeman. North Carolina beekeepers suffered an enormous loss recently: the passing of one...
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Experiences With a Top Bar Hive
By: David Dawson If you’re going to manage your top bar hive for honey production – you’re going to have problems. Introduction. Keeping bees has been my passion for close to 60 years partly as a...
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It has to do with the soil, rain and location. By: Bob Brachmann When the first break in the weather at the end of the 2007 – 2008 Winter gave me an opportunity to check my bees here in Southwestern...
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Build a Sales Display
By: Ed Simon It was time to put a little pizazz into our sales display that we use for flea markets and other events. Until now we have been using a six-foot folding table with a cloth draped over it....
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Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus (CBPV)
By: Don Coats Watch for this killer. It’s not passed by Varroa. This is what’s out there, the identified viruses that our bees are exposed to. Introduction: This article reports on a honey bee colony...
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The Beehive Thief
By: Peter Sieling Dresden, NY Feb. 1919 – William Keefer awoke to discover that eight of his honey bee colonies were missing. He was the latest victim in a string of robberies in and around the village...
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Bee Audacious
By: Mark Winston Bee Audacious was a collaborative working conference that utilized dialogue to envision bold evidence-based ideas through which honey bees, other bees, beekeepers and pollination...
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It’s Summers Time!
Root Company, Kids and Still…No Ducks! A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity for the second year in a row to talk to about 100 third graders from one of the local elementary schools here in...
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Regional Honey Price Report
June Report Spring Reckoning We went to our reporters this month and asked about their Spring weather, and how it had affected the bees, and them, and then their Winter and to date (early May) losses...
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Extracting honey from cantankerous combs. Odds and Ends – Dark socks and crystallized honey. By: James E. Tew Extracting from cold, older combs I am so, so sorry I started this topic. Last month I...
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Requeening, Again
By: Larry Connor When bees are being shaken for packages, nurse bees, drones and the queen often end up in the shaking basket. The nurse bees go through to a cage below. The queen and drones are...
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Pandora’s Box
African Honey Bees & Climate Change By: Ed Edwin Pandora, of classical Greek mythology, was given a box which contained all the evils of the world. When she opened it, all the evils flew out,...
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No Spraying Required
A Better Way To Protect Crops, and Bees By: John Dietz Beekeepers may be delivering a new service for crop producers, in North America and overseas, if a Canadian crop protection company is able to...
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The Inner Cover
Toward the end of this month we will be hosting three webinars as part of the Healthy Bees 2020 program organized by Project Apis m. I’ll be moderating, with Danielle Downey and Dave Mendes helping...
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