May 2017
Cooking with Honey
By: Ann Harman The Spring months are famous for the pick-your-own strawberry patches and for ripe blueberries. Use some of your honey to enhance…
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Caveat Emptor: Let the Buyer Beward
By: Vaughn Bryant, Texas A&M There is very little truth in honey labeling. “Houston, we have a problem!” Those were words that echoed around the world…
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U.S. Honey Industry Report – 2016
By: Kim Flottum Imports, exports, production and consumption from 2016. A somewhat new look and a lot of new data come with the Department…
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Southwest Foraging
By: Connie Krochmal For this month, let’s explore another volume in Timber Press’s foraging series. “Southwest Foraging-117 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Barrel Cactus…
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Brand Management
Review sites, bad reviews and good customer service. By: Jessica Dally In our last article, we discussed the Facebook algorithm. But of course, if…
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Meet the EAS Bee Wranglers!
By: Dewey Caron The EAS conference has traditionally featured live honey bee workshops with bees moved to the conference site. To help coordinate and…
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Varietal Honeys Are Worth The Bother
By: Ann Harman If the weather and the plants and the bees cooperate then you may have three or four opportunities to collect and…
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Bigger Picture – Lent
By: Jessica Louque Practice What You Preach – Teach What You Practice We are currently in the midst of the Lenten season in the…
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How to Set up a Beeyard
Guidelines For Finding The Best Location By: Daniel Thurston QUESTION: I’m making splits and increasing my colony numbers this bee season. I’m at the…
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Requeening
By: Larry Connor In Nature In Nature, queen replacement is a family event. When a queen is being a replaced, the worker bees recognize…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James Tew Extracting honey at the wrong time (Part 1). Some unsubstantiated thoughts on propolis. Just a bit more than a year ago…
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The American Bee Research Report
A Summary Of The Proceedings From Galveston By: Elina L. Niño This year marked yet another tremendous joint conference of the American Beekeeping Federation, The…
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Downtown “Your City” Bees, LLC
By: Toni Burnham You Can Do This About a year and a half ago, one of my favorite newbee-ish beekeepers asked me to lunch….
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Bottom Board
What Happens When? This Winter I drove over the mountains to put down a rebellion of beekeepers who thought they might secede from the…
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The Polariscope
A Useful Tool For Judging Honey By: Jim Thompson A polariscope, according to the Random House Dictionary is: “an instrument for measuring or exhibiting…
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The Politics of Killing Bees- Pesticides
By: Katherine Kiefer Interest in honey bees and beekeeping in the U.S. has never been greater. Despite increased interest in the plight of honey…
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Detecting Honey Adulteration
By: Robert Packer Using Infrared Spectroscopy. It’s as easy as A, Bee, C. Food adulteration: A global problem While many people are aware of…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Prime Time, Passing Along Immunity. What if you could predict the disease environment of your offspring and then do something to increase their odds…
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A Closer Look
Queen Rearing Behaviors Conflict and cooperation during queen replacement. The production of new queens is a colony level process involving the coordinated activities of…
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