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Screened Bottom Boards, Honey Bees, and Mites
The cost of a screened bottom board is not that different from that of an assembled and painted solid one, though the Ultimate Screened Bottom Board1 (well worth the money)…
A Small Colony of Queenless Bees: A Closer Look
This article shows some of my work with bees from the apiary to the bee house. Here I am handling bees that ordinarily would be merely united with another colony…
Letters to the Editor – November 2025
Comment on USDA Reorganization The proposed closing of BARC [The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center], the decentralization and dismantling of USDA will be devastating to agriculture, threatens our food supply, the…
USING RESEARCH TO CHANGE REGULATION: HONEY BEE RESEARCH IMPACTS EPA LABELING
Seeing impacts from your research can be a long, laborious and tedious process. But testing a hypothesis and discovering a fact that ends up impacting everyday people — that’s a…
Contents – November 2025
THE CLASSROOM Jamie Ellis – 1181 BEEKEEPING BASICS Screened Bottom Boards, Honey Bees, and Mites Tina Sebestyen – 1187 Do Bees Survive a Sugar Shake? Mary Woolford, Robyn Underwood, Jennifer…
New to beekeeping? A novice guide to starting your first hive
Take the plunge on your beekeeping journey with smart decisions. Read our guide for everything you need to get started with your first hive! The post New to beekeeping? A…
Appalachian beekeeping the Foxfire way: free bees in gums
Appalachian Mountain families found wild honey bees in the rich local forests that were filled with flowering trees. They simply followed foraging bees back to their nests using a technique…