Know Thy Enemy (Part 1): Who is Varroa Destructor?
Female Varroa destructor under a dissecting microscope. Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher. Featured photo credit: H. Broccard-Bell. Know Thy Enemy: Understanding Varroa In the ongoing quest to improve the health, happiness, and...
Wrapping Things Up for Winter!
Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher It’s that time of year again. In many areas, temperatures have started to dip below freezing at night, and the first snowflakes have begun to fall. If you’re in the prairies, you’re almost certainly...
Feeding Honey Bees: What, When, Why?
Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher Feeding is one of those controversial honey bee topics that might best be avoided in polite company. A lot of different beekeepers have a lot of different (often extremely passionate) opinions. Some of...
Oh Honey, Honey: Considerations for New Beekeepers
Author: Heather Broccard-Bell, Ph.D., Honey Bee Health Researcher Humans have been gathering honey from honey bees in one form or another for millennia. For most of that time, “management” was as simple as harvesting honey from wild bee colonies wherever they could be...
