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Honey Bee Nutrition Guide

Honey Bee Nutrition Guide from Honey Bee Healthy Coalition Beekeepers now have a valuable resource at their fingertips with the release of the latest comprehensive Honey Bee Nutrition Guide from the Honey Bee Health Coalition. The guide is a review and manual for supplemental feeding in bee hives, giving beekeepers a simple approach to the complex and nuanced world of…
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February 6, 2024
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AHPA Presentation

Study Hall – From the Editor By: Jerry Hayes I was asked to present the Keynote Address at the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA) Conference this past Winter, titled Don’t Be Bashful. I have been asked if I would/could turn a 45-minute powerpoint into an article for Bee Culture. I have never done this before. Hang on, here goes. In…
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February 5, 2024
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The Vital Role of County Apiary Inspectors

The vital role of county apiary inspectors in safeguarding bee health By Eric Hange Medina County Apiary Inspector Michael Mohn evaluates a local hive. (Submitted photo) In the delicate balance of ecosystems, pollinators play a crucial role in ensuring the reproduction of flowering plants and the sustainability of agriculture. Among these essential pollinators, bees stand out as indispensable contributors to the…
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February 2, 2024
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Vermont – The Rest of the Story

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…
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February 1, 2024
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Found in Translation

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…
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February 1, 2024
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Answers to Some Common Bee Related Questions

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…
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February 1, 2024
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Some Bee Behavior Bullets

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.…
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February 1, 2024
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Honey Bees Irreplaceable Role

From Pollination To Plate, Bees And Beekeeping Play An Irreplaceable Role In Food Production The bustling aisles of a grocery store offer rows upon rows of food to choose from. In this space, the freedom of choice appears endless, though insight into where and how exactly a product originates may not be as readily available. Peering beyond the confines of…
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January 25, 2024
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Surfactant and Honey Bee Health

Hazard/Risk Assessment Trisiloxane Surfactants Negatively Affect Reproductive Behaviors and Enhance Viral Replication in Honey Bees Julia D. Fine, Diana L. Cox-Foster, Kyle J. Moor, Ruiwen Chen, Arian Avalos https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5771 Abstract Trisiloxane surfactants are often applied in formulated adjuvant products to blooming crops, including almonds, exposing the managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) used for pollination of these crops and persisting in colony matrices, such as…
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January 24, 2024