Bigger Picture
Swarm Shaming I don’t know how everyone else’s Spring season went with their bees, but we had an insane amount of swarms this year….
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
Processing thick honey from heavy combs. An aggressive colony in a suburban area. My opening comment last month For this continued honey processing topic, I…
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Bee Venom Therapy
If modern medicine is unable to help you, try Bee Venom Therapy (BVT)…you have little to lose. The use of honey bee products for…
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The Honey Bee Health Coalition
Recent Accomplishments And Where We Are Heading Shapiro, Dykes, Sears, Hays, Berthelsen, Waycott Intro/Overview, by Julie Shapiro Honey bees play an integral role in…
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Pacific Northwest Foraging
In this series thus far we’ve jumped hither and yon over much of the West. This month, we’ll focus on the Northwest. “Pacific Northwest…
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North Carolina State Beekeepers Association
This year, 2017, marks the 100th birthday of the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association. The first meeting was held in Winston-Salem. The site was…
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Porter Bee Escape: Methods of Removing Honey
By: Jim Thompson Perhaps the oldest and quickest method in removing honey from a hive is the brush method where a beekeeper opens the…
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Solution to the Bee Problem?
By: David Donnelly The media has been all abuzz about a solution to a problem that is near and dear to us beekeepers. NBC…
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Urban Forests: Plant City Trees for City Bees
By Christine Taylor It starts in the trees, densely covered with thousands of flowers give bees an eco-rich source of nectar and pollen. However,…
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Selling Honey for $20 a Pound
30 Tips On Selling Honey. You Don’t Have To Be Clever, Just Honest By: Leo Sharashkin “Do you have local honey?” inquired a store…
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NOD Apiary Products’ Story Of Innovation The Challenge
Part 1, Developing An Environmentally Friendly Miticide By: David VanderDussen and Kathleen Ireland This article is the first of three about the process of…
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DOWNTOWN Easy Urban Crime Reduction
Apiary Hygiene! At this month’s club meeting, we handed out 6” by 16” rectangles of eight-to-the-inch hardware cloth to any member who wanted one,…
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A Closer Look
VIRAL DISEASE SUSPECTIBILITY AND TRANSMISSION Transmission among colonies is a central feature for the epidemiology of honey bee pathogens.. Honey bees are social insects living in…
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Pollen Counts: New Ways To Assess Forage Quality A clear understanding of the range and diversity of pollen collected by honey bees is important…
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It’s Summers Time!
SWARMS, CHICKEN BULLYING AND BEE FEST We’ve had a busy, but fun and exciting late Spring and early Summer. I have lots to talk…
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Ann Harman: Worker Bee Extraordinaire
By: Dewey Caron A bee colony has to have many worker bees to get all the tasks done. So too does an organization, as…
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The Inner Cover
It started out as a typical hectic Spring. Then it got worse. Then it got real worse. Worse, as in things kept happening that…
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Ed Colby
Two Dollops of Honey By the time you read this, it’ll be over. But right now, in the merry month of May, I…
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July- Regional Honey Market Report
Honey Label Use We took a look at honey jar labels this month, seeing what our reporters use, and don’t use. Perhaps you will…
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Pollinator Day 2017
On Saturday, July 15th we’re holding our third Pollinator Day here at the Root Company’s Pollinator Meadow, behind our Corporate Headquarters. There’s a several…
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