with Jane Sueme Harvest season is here. The days get shorter, the queens slow egg-laying. Summer bees give way to the winter bees, so what is responsible for the transition and how can we beekeepers help (or hurt) them? We'll also talk about the different feeding methods for fall ...
Since honey production is one of the few sources of cash income for local farmers in the region, beekeeping is an important activity for sustainable livelihoods. Beehives are generally situated near houses, surrounded by small vegetable gardens and livestock paddocks. Village areas also include small...
e mycelium retro On 20 July 2019, we introduced six small-sized bee colonies (3000–4000 bees each) inOto neac2h0hiJvue,lythr2ee0o1f9t,hewmewiitnhtmroycdeuliaclewdallssiaxndsmthraelelw-siitzheredgublaere18cmomlonies ( thick wooden walls. We monitored the climate within the hives for two ...
Far be it from me to suggest that the neonics (or any other pesticides) are harmless! But consider this—if the neonic seed treatments were indeed as harmful as some make them out to be, you’d think that after a decade of intense study that at least one researcher could have come up...
(2015), who placed hives in a rural location near Brighton (UK) in 2012. In the study by Garbuzov et al. (2015), OSR was less than 4 % of the area within 6 km of the rural apiary, whereas OSR comprised 27 % of the arable land in the current study. In addition, hives ...
Several factors, such as the sale of queens and swarms and transhumance, have contributed to the spread of this disease worldwide [2,3]. The losses amount to some thousands of hives just for Eastern Europe [4]. In Algeria, the first varroa was reported in June 1981 on A. mellifera ...