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Stuart Anderson: Co-Inventor of the Flow Hive
by Toni Burnham If you are a beekeeper in North America, and you have a connection to the Internet (or anyone you know has a connection, or their kid does) it is almost 100% certain that you have heard...
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Tom Seeley
by Ann Harman You have read his books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1996), and Honeybee Democracy (2010). You have attended beekeeper meetings and heard him speak. All who have read...
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Champlain Valley Apiaries
Three Generations of Beekeeping by Ross Conrad The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Charles Mraz (1905-1999) kept bees in Woodside, Queens, an enclave of Czech immigrants in New York City during the...
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Keith Delaplane
by Jennifer Berry It’s interesting how things work out. How one minute your life is heading down a certain path, then the next it switches directions and everything has completely changed. It’s also...
View ArticleA Closer Look: Varroa Mite Orientation
Studies of Varroa destructor orientation to honey bees were undertaken to isolate discrete chemical compounds that elicit host-finding activity. by Clarence Collison Female Varroa mites parasitize both...
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A Holiday Meal With Honey
by Angelo Prosperi-Porta I always like to veer a little off the beaten track when cooking especially when entertaining. This is the time to introduce new flavors – not a complete, radical departure...
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Ditch The Foundation
by Roger Williams “Psst! Buddy! Hey you, with the veil. Yeh, you. Wanna save 100 bucks?” This doesn’t happen often to a beekeeper, some guy with a gray fedora shading his darting eyes, standing in a...
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The Right Size Wick
by Petra Ahnert Ahhhh… Fall. This is the time of year that we finally get around to transforming our cappings into beautiful yellow blocks of wax. It is also the time that people start ordering candles...
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Women In Beekeeping
by Michele Colopy The USDA recently released a report on the impact of women in agriculture. Thirty-one percent of all farmers are women, or 969,672 women farmers who own 301,386,860 acres contributing...
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Build A Swarm Trap
by Ed Simon You have just caught a swarm using the swarm bucket, but now it seems as though there are more bees sitting on the lid of the bucket than are inside. How can you get them in the bucket...
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Gene Robinson
Jerry Hayes The world of Honey Bees, even though small in comparison to other hobbies or businesses, is full of humans who have a passion for, even a Love of bees from a science, environmental,...
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The National Strategy To Promote The Health Of Honey Bees And Other Pollinators
What is it – smoke and mirrors or bountiful possibility? by M.E.A. McNeil “It’s a really rough world out there for bees,” said Eric Mussen, UC Davis emeritus apiculturist. Our bees are just too weak....
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Next Event: A Case For Honey
A case for honey. When your business is measured in cases of honey, when you begin to call yourself a “Producer-Packer”, when honey puts food on the family table, when you know that if you had just...
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Beeyard Thoughts
Microfiber towels and small hive beetles Some useless comments about the iconic hive smoker J. Tew novice – Vaporizing oxalic acid; Field testing an experimental beehive heating system Goldenrod – is...
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Colony Development Part III
Queens by Larry Connor Before obtaining the first bee colony, the future sustainable apiculturist must master key aspects of bee biology. Here we look at the activities of queen bees. Queen Activity,...
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