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Installing a New Package of Bees? Here's a New Tip to Improve Acceptance

Springtime for beekeepers is synonymous with starting new colonies, especially since annual losses have been hovering ~40% every year so that beekeepers need to recoup their numbers. There are three…

Honey bees clustered on comb with red Varroa mites attached to their thoraxes

Host-Shifts and Honey Bees: Lessons From COVID-19

This global health crisis has certainly hit us all like a ton of bricks, and at the time of this writing (early April 2020) we are still amidst our “social distancing” and mandatory University and…

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Information From the NCDA&CS to Beekeepers Concerning Hurricane Florence

The email included below was sent out from Jason Williams with the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Structural Pest Control and Pesticides Division to all beekeepers that have…

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"Bee" Kind if You Spray for Mosquitoes

To follow up on David Tarpy's post (Protective Measures of Beehives During Hurricanes), in the days and weeks following Hurricane Florence, we will see mosquito spraying on some scale whether it's…

Female honey bee collecting pollen

Balancing Beekeeping and Mosquito Abatement in North Carolina

Barely a day goes by when Zika virus is not in the news headlines. As of August 31st 2016, the CDC has reported 2,717 confirmed case of Zika virus in the U.S. New York was #1 with 625 cases (23% of…

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What Are the Patterns of Why Honey Bee Colonies Are Dying in the US?

Answer: Another year, another survey, and the findings remain less than encouraging. It seems counter-intuitive that we don’t have a clear picture about our managed honey bee population like other…