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Packages
It’s no secret. A million, maybe more colonies that were alive last Thanksgiving aren’t alive today, the beginning of May. What happened? Lots of things, actually, but mostly, from those I talk to and...
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Postal Costs for Bees and Chickens to go up, maybe.
Last time we looked at getting packages, and I was going to take a long look at getting them started, but not unlike lots of times, something got in the way. The Post Office. Here’s the address they...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 2015/2016 winter losses in Canada.
Summary The Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists (CAPA) coordinated the annual honey bee wintering loss report for 2015/16 in Canada. Harmonized questions based on national beekeeping...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists have shown that the drone can leave behind a...
From Science Daily When a queen has sex with many different partners, it can increase her risk of infection with venereal disease. It can also lead to the collapse of her colony. This might read like...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – We Need to Think not Just about Honey Bees but Wild...
By: Cyrus Moulton WORCESTER – You may have heard about honeybee loss and colony collapse disorder. But a new study from Worcester Polytechnic Institute finds that wild bees are undergoing a similar...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Make Sure the Workers are Fed, and They’ll Take Care of the...
Researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois used specially developed 3D-printed plastic honey combs that mimic the hive environment, in order to...
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CATCH THE BUZZ –“There is a Protein in Royal Jelly that Causes Bee Stem Cells...
Inside a hive, all females are the same when they are larval bees. Then, one female is selected as the queen bee, and she is fed a special diet of royal bee jelly. The jelly nurtures her into becoming...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Research Demonstrates a Highly Sensitive Approach that...
British scientists are urgently calling for stricter regulations on pesticides after finding that they are affecting genes in bumblebees. Research led by Queen Mary University of London with Imperial...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Number of Honey Bee Colonies in Europe Fell By 16% in...
The survey of 25,363 beekeepers in 36 countries found that, out of 544,879 colonies being managed at the start of winter, 89124 were lost, through a combination of circumstances including various...
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Refrigerated Queens
Indoor ‘queen banking’ could help beekeepers deal with changing climate Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make storing them more stable and less labor-intensive Washington...
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