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…
Read MoreCaveat 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…
Read MoreU.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…
Read MoreSouthwest 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…
Read MoreBrand 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…
Read MoreMeet 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…
Read MoreVarietal 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…
Read MoreBigger 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreRequeening
By: Larry Connor In Nature In Nature, queen replacement is a family event. When a queen is being a replaced, the worker bees recognize…
Read MoreSome 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDowntown “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….
Read MoreBottom 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDetecting 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…
Read MoreFOUND 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…
Read MoreA 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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