Medieval Honey Trade
Honey trade was widespread in late medieval Europe, study finds Authored by three scholars from King’s College London, the study uncovers how trade, taste,…
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John Root Remembrance
It is with great sadness that we share with you that John Root passed at home on April 26, 2023. After three years in…
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Oldest Known Pollen Carrying Insect
The oldest known pollen-carrying insects lived about 280 million years ago By Sid Perkins The oldest known fossils of pollen-laden insects are of earwig-like ground-dwellers…
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Why Beekeeping Is an Efficient Industry
By Scott Solomon, Rice University The sun temple built by pharaoh Nyuserre in the Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago has the earliest…
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Keeping Bees can be both a Meaningful and Sacred Hobby
Fr. Michael Rennier How beekeeping satisfies the soul Keeping bees is both a meaningful and sacred hobby … and deeply connected to the…
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Bee Pollen as Food
Our History With Bee Pollen Ambrosia – The Food Of The Gods Our story starts over 100 million years ago. Our world was…
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Weird Facts about Beehives and Honey
Beehives as weapons — and more weird facts about food Daniel Neman is a food writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Containers…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ- Honey Bee Poisoning 1880’s
Early Insecticide Controversies and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region Jennifer Bonnell Environmental History, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 79–101 https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emaa059…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey History
Sweeter Than Honey The Egyptians were the first nomadic beekeepers, as they used to transport their hives by boat on the Nile, in search…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey as a Wound Treatment
Honey as a Wound Treatment? Scientists Are Exploring Its Potential Healing Effects Research on honey’s antibacterial qualities could push this ancient remedy from alternative…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – God Bless America and the Honey Bees
COMMENTARY: God Bless America (and the honey bees) The angry bees attacked in the direction of the stick, giving Charity enough time to escape.”…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Scottish Beekeeper in a Nazi Concentration Camp, and, Honey Bees Delivering Pesticides to Protect Plants.
Company Sergeant Major James Hamilton Savage persuaded the Nazi guards in Stalag 383 to allow him to set up beehives behind the barbed wire…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ancient Coins Were Adorned With Honey Bees. Honored, Almost Magical.
Ephesus and the Cult of Artemis From the dawn of human society, the nature and origin of the bee have awakened the curiosity and…
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The Story of A. I. Root – In The Jewelry Business
By : A.I. Root An old gentleman once gave me some advice that has been of benefit to me all my life. He was…
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The Story of A.I. Root – Beginning Bees
By : A. I. Root I have always been an enthusiastic admirer of old Dame Nature’s mysterious ways and workings. In August, 1865, a swarm…
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New Beekeeping Developments in the past 100 years
By : Peter Borst I know I will hear from some of you on this, but before you take pen in hand, give it a…
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A Son’s Memories Of A.I. Root
By: Ernesst Root Suggested by the last days and religious characteristics of his remarkable father. A.I. Root was born near Medina, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1839….
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Memory Lane
By Gerry Hayes Well Sherman, set the WABAC machine to Florida, 2006. OK, Mr. Peabody! Beekeepers, RNAi, Monsanto and Gerry Hayes I was the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Revered as a Humanitarian and Scientist, Warwick Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas
Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan, In the Scientist Brazilian entomologist Warwick Estevam Kerr died on September 15 in São Paulo at age 96. Kerr leaves behind…
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The Aspinwall Name
By Jim Thompson I purchased some Aspinwall no swarm frames in the 1980s and today I thought that I would find a little about…
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