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If you are one of the growing number of people who are concerned about what is happening to honey bees – then you are one of our heroes! This blog is a place where we will focus on one really important thing – something that matters to each of us individually and to the planet as a whole: … healthy honey bees…

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Honey Bee Heroes · 3W ago

Too few mites? I know the feeling.

Too few mites? I know the feeling.. A good Blog by Dennis Murrell – Bee Natural

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Honey Bee Heroes · 1M ago

Imidacloprid – systemic pesticide, systemic problem…

Today’s CATCH THE BUZZ email, published by Kim Flottum of Bee Culture magazine offers two completely opposing statements concerning the use of the systemic neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid. http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2012.04.05.17.00.archive.html There’s just something really WRONG with a

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Honey Bee Heroes · 1M ago

Ground bees? They are not always wasps, hornets, yellowjackets…

A lovely and informative post about “ground bees” from Soulsby Farm’s blog by Denise Ellsworth – honey bee and native pollinator education from The Ohio State University Department of Entomology. With great pictures too! Check it out… http://soulsbyfarm.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/native-bees-welcome

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Honey Bee Heroes · 2M ago

Frankly, Scarlett — I’m alarmed!

It’s mid-March. I’m in Maine. I’m walking out the door and going across the street to the mailbox in jeans and a t-shirt. Every other conversation I engage in – even with a stranger on the street, or with the person next to me at the health food store – is about the WEATHER! Why [...]

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Honey Bee Heroes · 4M ago

The resourcefulness of beekeepers…

Recently I read a response to a blog post on Dennis Murrell’s Natural Beekeeping blog. Dianna wrote to describe how she had recycled oak fence boards into a Warre hive with her circular saw, for next to nothing in $$$ and happily, still has all her fingers! We thought she was pretty smart, and the

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Honey Bee Heroes · 4M ago

About honey bees and January… and April…

About honey bees and January… and April… Beekeeping is funny, isn’t it? I mean, it’s a spring thing, right? The flowers are blooming, gardens are growing, bees are buzzing, it’s an exciting, growing time. But to understand how “things bee” get started up in the spring, you have to go backwards into

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Honey Bee Heroes · 5M ago

A Christmas beekeeping blog…

Beekeeping. Just what IS beekeeping? Is it art? Is it science? Is it magic? It’s notoriously difficult to define… Is it a hobby? Is it a habit? Is it an obsession? Just what is it? And what about those funny little bugs? Just what is it about bees? They sting, yes – so it’s prudent [...]

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Honey Bee Heroes · 10M ago

4th of July Message from Gold Star Honeybees

Hello Fellow Top Bar Beekeepers – Well, here we are – it’s almost the 4th of July. I know that all of you first year top bar beekeepers have had some interesting experiences since becoming a beekeeper this spring, some good, some bad, all of them different – and I just thought I’d offer a [...]

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Honey Bee Heroes · 11M ago

22 Days to Swarming? Wow! That doesn’t seem good…

I hived a good sized package of bees on Friday May 20th in a Gold Star Top Bar Hive here in the Gold Star Apiary… Yesterday, June 11th I did an inspection. This makes the hive 22 days old. While I was pleased to see several bars of capped honey – which is a little [...]

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Honey Bee Heroes · 11M ago

The Comfort of Why…

Everybody’s heard it – the insistent, persistent voice of a small child asking “Why?” They start with one question and then dig deeper and deeper – to your every best answer – there is another “Why?”, another “Why?” and yet another “Why?” Eventually the questions become impossible to answer and th

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