February 2024

A Follow-up to the Catch the Buzz post on January 30, 2024: A response from Ross Conrad, a regular contributor to Bee Culture: Recent media announcements by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM) suggest that due to the great work the agency is doing, Vermont’s managed honey bee population is “healthy and robust.” They point to statistics that…

https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/EvansFeb24_Squashbees.mp3 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Found in Translation Bees Riding the Coattails of Crop Plants By: Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab Much is made of the challenges faced by honey bees and other pollinators living in agricultural settings and bee lives…

https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rossquestions.mp3 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Answers to Some Common Bee Related Questions By: Ross Conrad Keep bees long enough and eventually you will run into a situation where you have more honey than you know what to do with. This is point…

https://www.beeculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/TewQuestions-and-Answers.mp3 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Some Bee Behavior Bullets A few of your questions with some suggested answers By: James E. Tew No shortage of questions There is no shortage of honey bee questions, but answers are not always easy to derive.…