Apr 15
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Apr 09
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Jan 15
Information on this years package bees are finally available. Pickup Dates will be March 21st, April 4th and April 18th.
The March 21st date is generally not recommended for the beginner or starting a new hive on foundation as it’s typically too cool for the bees to draw comb well (2012 was an unusual exception …
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Dec 27
Fluid dynamics was something I didn’t have to deal with as an electrical engineering student in college. This is probably ok as the average beekeeper doesn’t need to know much more than it makes a sticky mess when you miss the bottle.
However, I did find this high speed video …
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Dec 03
(Literally)
Fried Bee Pupae, yum! Ok, so it really doesn’t look that appetizing to me, but in the majority of the United States and other countries we have been taught that insects shouldn’t be found in our food. Not so in other parts of the world where insects are either a staple or a …
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Nov 15
According to researches, airborn pollen has increased over the past 25 year and will more than double in the next 28 years. According to the news article, temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide are responsible for the increase. Other than the negative effect on those of us who suffer from hay fever …
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Nov 11
Old beekeeping articles always fascinate me, both for the knowledge and insight that often was forgotten and has been reintroduced as a new things, and also for the ideas that apparently didn’t seem to make it off the ground. This is an example of the latter. I have yet to see any beekeeper with a …
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Apr 03
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Apr 01
It looks like the long warm spell of March is over. We should be starting our first grafts this coming week and the weather forecast only predicts one day that even reaches 70 degrees. A big change from the last few weeks where nearly every day was in the 70′s.
With the use of an …
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Mar 22
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