An Interview with Valeri Strachan
By: Larry Connor An Interview with Valeri Strachan. LC – Tell me how you found yourself running a queen business in California? VS…
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Charlie Brandts and the White House Bees
By: Toni Burnham What if you were a second-year beekeeper, working for an outfit that was looking to go green, and your boss’ boss…
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Queen Right Colonies
By: James Tew I can’t say just how long it has been, but I have known Shelia and Denzil St. Clair at Queen Right…
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The Kelly Beekeeping Company
By: Phil Craft Exciting New Things Are Happening At Kelley. A loud buzzing overhead attracted the attention of the group assembled at the Kelley…
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Tammy Horn Potter
By: Barbara Gillette Kentucky State Apiarist and author Dr. Tammy Horn Potter blazed a trail across literary and beekeeping circles in 2005 with the…
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Bottom Board- Dave Goulson
By: Ed Colby One of Britain’s foremost conservationists, University of Sussex Professor Dave Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that promotes bumblebees….
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Mark Bennett From The Chatham, VA Dadant Branch
By: Jessica Louque I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mark Bennett for years. Mark is the branch manager of the Chatham Dadant in…
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Meet David Tarpy
By: Ann Harman Today David Tarpy is well known in the honey bee world. He was interested in science as a youth but his…
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Buzz & Nancy Riopelle
By: Kim Flottum Buzz Riopelle is the first beekeeper I got to know when I moved to Medina for my job here. The Medina…
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The Pollinator Stewardship Council
ALL ABOUT LABELS By Michele Colopy Beekeepers tend to be an experimental lot. Label directions provide valuable information. Label directions protect us, our honey…
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Bee Kid’s Corner
Send all questions, photos and artwork to: beebuddies@hotmail.com or mail to the above address. Produced by Kim Lehman – http://www.kim.lehman.com https://www.beeculture.com
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Sam Comfort
By: Ross Conrad Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries is on a mission – two missions to be precise: Make more hives than televisions, and…
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Bear Kelley
By: Jennifer Berry Growing up, some of us wanted to be rich while some of us wanted to be famous. Some of us wanted…
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Ask Phil
Got A Question? He Knows! Send your questions to Phil at phil@philcrafthivecraft.com http://www.philcrafthivecraft.com Q: A nature lover in Kentucky writes: Here’s something I wonder:…
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A Closer Look
Orientation Flights And Scouting Behavior By: Clarence Collison Honey bees take repeated orientation flights before becoming foragers at about three weeks of age (Winston 1987)….
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Jake Reisdorf
By: Dennis Taylor His plan is to save mankind! In their dreams, most middle schoolers envision themselves pitching for the Cubs, or crooning their…
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SCIENTIFICBEEKEEPING
By: Kim Kaplan An interview with Randy Oliver Randy Oliver is the owner of Golden West Bees in northern California – about 1,000 colonies providing…
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RUSSIAN Honey Bees
By: Malcolm Sanford There have been a lot of questions recently about “Russian honey bees.” The term is increasingly making its way into the beekeeping…
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The Asian Predatory Hornet
By: Rusty Burlew For years British beekeepers have known that the Asian predatory hornet could one day arrive on their mainland. Sure enough, a…
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Competing Doomsdays
By: Mark Winston It’s long-term exposure to what were previously considered non-toxic doses of multiple pesticides that has become ground zero in assessing why…
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