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Why are bees important?
Bees provide an ecosystem that is pollinated, protected, and maintained. In other words, bees pollinate food crops. However, if this small percentage of wild bee species disappears, then 80% of our agricultural system may collapse.
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Backyard Beekeeping April/May 2022
Backyard Beekeeping April/May 2022 — 2/2 is available now! Subscribe to Backyard Beekeeping for great stories on different types of comb, how to move hives, teaching children not to fear bees, natural queen rearing, and human uses for bee pollen and venom. PLUS: Officer Darren Mays, a retired policeman who conducted swarm removals for the NYPD!
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Can I Raise Bees on Forest Land?
Honey bees are adept at finding seepages from hillsides, moist layers of moss, morning dew, and even traces of water in soil where another animal has been digging. Most of their water will come from nectar, and even in the driest areas, something is usually in bloom.
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Sun and Shade for Bees: What is the Right Mix?
Add to Favorites Many factors are important in determining a beehive location, including the relative amounts of sun and shade for bees. Many beekeepers insist that honey bee hives should …
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Fox Islands Apiaries
Fox Islands Apiaries are on an archipelago of islands 15 miles off the coast of Maine.
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Sweet as Mad Honey
Mad honey is made exclusively from a certain rhododendron species and is a brilliant red color.
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Which Garden Veggies Do Bees Pollinate?
Even if we lose all of our honeybees, we will not, as a nation nor as mankind, starve to death. However, because roughly a third of the food we eat requires bees for pollination, we will be forced to greatly modify our food expectations.
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My Hive Failed. Now What?
What can you learn from your spring dead-outs? Dig into your colonies and look for clues.
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GRIT’s Guide to Backyard Bees
Add to Favorites Dear Beekeepers, With the new year, Countryside Publications merged with Ogden Publications, bringing our titles into the same magazine family. Now, Countryside and Backyard Beekeeping members can …
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Twelve Things Every Novice Beekeeper Should Know
Add to Favorites You have your equipment. You have your bee suit. You’re ready to get your first bees. Excited? You should be. The art of beekeeping is endlessly fascinating. …
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