BYBA Blog
Interview With A Beekeeper – Laura Amodeo and Michael Brokaw, April 2022
T: Greetings and thank you for talking with me! First question, how did you become a beekeeper? L: I was the catalyst for this. I’m a biologist by training and when I started my first lab position after college, my boss, Chris Pargellis, was a beekeeper. He was...
Genetic Dysfunctionality
Characteristics Excluding Africans: Italians - big populations that use a lot of food, good honey production, calm on the comb, fairly gentle, with a tendency to drift and rob Carniolans - one of the gentlest bees, very clean, slows or stops brood rearing in times of...
Interview With A Beekeeper – Patricia Pulliam & Serge Boyce
Interviewees: Patricia Pulliam and Serge Boyce Interviewer: Tammi Worsham March 14, 2022 Tam: Hi. Its nice to meet you both! In person would be better, but maybe that will be possible soon! I’d like to start out with how you both became involved in beekeeping....
Mite Bee Management
When the theories of atoms started, the thought of comparing the smallest parts of matter to the biggest seemed strange! But here we are - nucleus, sun and orbiting planets, electrons. I say let’s look at the management of bees. We'll look at one of the biggest...
What’s Buzzing at the Bee Yard
Today, looking inside, we were pleased to learn that while we have lost a few colonies, several colonies are alive and thriving. The most important thing I learned today was that winter bees do not have the same disposition as fall bees. If any of you have ever seen...
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