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How is fake or adulterated honey identified? How do the fraudsters escape detection, and what novel methods might allow adulterated honey to be identified in the future?
https://theapiarist.org/fake-news/
#beekeeping #honey #localhoney

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Don't put up with bad-tempered bees. Re-queen them, either with a purchased queen or one you have reared. There are simple ways to improve your stocks that yield long-term benefits.
https://theapiarist.org/simple-stock-improvement/
#beekeeping #localhoney

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Using the term 'raw' on your honey labels, Winnie the Pooh, court cases and inadequacies in the honey regulations. The prosecution rests m'lud.
https://theapiarist.org/raw-honey/
#beekeeping #localhoney #rawhoney #notguilty

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How to keep hive numbers to a manageable number, whatever that number is. Balancing the needs of swarm control and replacement of winter losses with the time, energy, equipment and enthusiasm available.
https://theapiarist.org/enough-bees/
#localbees #beekeeping #localhoney

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Expensive, versatile and really useful, at least they are if they are well-designed and manufactured. Some of the current models are good, but none are close to perfect.
https://theapiarist.org/the-perfect-poly-nuc/
#beekeeping #localhoney

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And then there were two. What happens when you split a colony into two? Why might ‘walk away splits’ not be the best way of increasing colony numbers?
https://theapiarist.org/doing-the-splits/
#beekeeping #localhoney #localbees

How do eggs appear in places the queen cannot reach? Do these eggs produce worker or drone brood? If bees can move eggs, can they move them to queen cells?
https://theapiarist.org/do-bees-move-eggs/
#beekeeping #localhoney #localbees

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Recent research on the maternal effect in honey bees suggests queen rearing using worker larvae may produce undersized and underperforming queens.
https://theapiarist.org/bigger-queens-better-queens-part-1/
#localbees #localhoney #beekeeping

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By all means count the natural mite drop of a colony, but be aware of the limitations of the method and the many things that influence the count.
https://theapiarist.org/natural-mite-drop/
#beekeeping #localhoney

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Should beginners get one or two colonies? The standard advice is ‘get two’, but I think three colonies by the end of year two gives better security, more opportunities to experiment, and a faster route to gaining valuable experience.
https://theapiarist.org/beekeeping-backup
#localhoney #beekeeping

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Heather honey is thixotropic and requires special treatment when extracting. Here’s my experience with the Speidel Hydropress … no more tedious crushing and straining for me!

https://theapiarist.org/under-pressure-the-speidel-hydropress/

#beekeeping #localhoney

I bought some local honey today, one blackberry and one lavender blossom, and oh man they're both so so good, and distinctly different from one another

Thx to the bees 😌 🐝🩵

#localhoney #honey #food #localfood #cooking

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How difficult is beekeeping? Learning curves, Dunning-Kruger, gentle introductions and future challenges … together with some enforced supersedure, mice and fainting queens.

https://theapiarist.org/shallow-learning-curves/

#beekeeping #localhoney #dunningkrugereffect #learningcurve

Time for some #chamomile #tea with local orange blossom honey. 🍯 🐝 This mug makes me miss home.

#LocalHoney #Knoebels #Homesick #Pennsylvania

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Think laterally, use your imagination, hoard stuff … there’s lots you can repurpose to make both your beekeeping and bank balance better. And it’s something to fill the months until the season starts.

https://theapiarist.org/repurposed/

#beekeeping #localhoney #carefulnotmean

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New and old honey bee viruses. Are these a cause for concern in our bees, or for bees they share the environment with? Facts, suspicions, omissions and reality.
https://theapiarist.org/a-tale-of-two-viruses/
#beekeeping #localhoney #virus

Weather, nucs, queens, swarms and wax. A potpourri of topics that have entertained me while waiting for the heather flow to start … if it starts.
https://theapiarist.org/summer-doldrums/
#beekeeping #localhoney #weather #heather

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Why do bees collect pollen of only one type when foraging? Why do they forage repeatedly in the same area? What has coffee got to do with this?

https://theapiarist.org/coffee-constancy-and-fidelity/

#beekeeping #localhoney #espresso