Contents Professional Beekeeping 2 The Beginning of a Boom 3 Indicators of Change 4 The Four Booms, Sprees, and Joyrides that We’ve Been Enjoying 5 I’ll Go Over Each of the Above in Turn, and Point out Early Indicators and Preparation. 6 The Demand for Bees for Almond Pollination 6 Early Indicators and Preparation 8 […] The post Is Our Party Winding Down appeared first on Scientific Beekeeping.| Scientific Beekeeping
Contents An Unsuccessful Attempt to Create Robbing Field Observations of the Guards Behind Robbing Screens How Colonies Guard Themselves against Foreign Bees The Behavior of Guard Bees My Conclusions Next Month Acknowledgements Citations and Notes Robbing Screens Part 8: Do They Work in Concert with the Guard Bees? Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First Published in ABJ […] The post Robbing Screens: Part 8– Do They Work in Concert with Guard Bees appeared first on Sci...| Scientific Beekeeping
Robbing Screens Part 9: Designing a Robbing Screen that Works in Conjunction with the Colony’s Guard Bees Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First published in ABJ March 2025 The defenders of a colony against robbing are its resident guard force. Do the current designs of robbing screens help or hinder those guard bees? Robbing Starts […]| Scientific Beekeeping
Honey Cleanup without Robbing Randy Oliver ScientificBeekeeping.com First Published in ABJ September 2023 I’m often asked how to “clean up” the honey in cut-out burr or volunteer combs, spilled honey, sticky extracted combs, or other honey that we’d like to recycle back into hives — without initiating robbing and the potential transfer of […]| Scientific Beekeeping