Beekeepers can participate in collecting data to measure climate change using hive scales
Author: Jennifer Berry, The University of Georiga, Honey Bee Program
Orignially Published in Bee Culture Feburary 2013
Last year, 2012, weather had a considerable impact on certain portions of the US, which seems to be the trend lately. For instance, it was either too wet, too dry, too hot, too cold, (too windy even), and when you mix too hot, dry and windy, disastrous events can occur. …
Help identify brood stages and hone your skills in inspecting honey bee colonies.
Figure 1: A honey bee emerging from a capped cell. Above, left of the emerging bee is a capped cell with a developing pupa unseen, underneath the cap. Above, far right of the emerging bee is a cell with a honey bee egg.
Figure 2: A screenshot from Broodmapper.com with scored cells.
Honey bees develop from eggs to adults in the cells of honey …
Honey Bee Colony Losses in the USA. The Bee Informed Partnership.
Losses 2006-2007, published in the American Bee Journal
Losses 2007-2008, published in PlosOne
