Found In Translation – Winter Stirrings
By : Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Some people say spring starts with the mating of great-horned owls in late December. These people are…
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Imagining The Unimaginable – A World Where Honey Bees Thrive
By : Ross Conrad In the September 2018 issue of Bee Culture we explored what a world in which honey bees and pollinators are…
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BUYING AND SELLING BEES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
By : Bill Ruzicka PACKAGES, NUCS, SPLITS, AND SWARMS were created for traditional northern beekeeping when the bees were gassed and killed after the…
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Creating A Beekeeper Meeting
By : Ann Harman Well, you did it! You volunteered to be Meeting Chairman. Now what? It all depends on whether your club is…
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It’s Summers Time – January, Travel and Chickens
By : Kathy Summers As I write this it is mid-January and we have just returned from both big meetings. Kim went to the…
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INNERCOVER
By : Kim Flottum I’ve been attending one or the other, and sometimes but rarely both, of the National meetings in January almost every…
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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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COLOSS
By : Malcolm Sanford Takes On The Small Hive Beetle The new lab wasted little time getting on the world’s honey bee research and extension…
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The Colony That Would Not Die
By : James E. Tew “I can hear you!” Many years ago, I had what was to be a “typical surgical procedure.” It went…
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The Risky Business Of Pesticides
By : Johnathan Lundgren There Are Consequences Of Pesticides That Stand Beyond Fence Lines It is easy for a farmer to justify applying a…
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