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Why Jaws of Worker Honeybees Differ From Queen Bees
First off, the “jaws” of honeybees are really called mandibles. “Mandibles” is a lot to get in a header, and they do act as jaws. The mandibles open side to side rather than up and down like our jaws. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Brookfield Farm, honeybee, jaw, mandible, Maple Falls, queens, Washington, worker
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Installing Russian Queens
Every year I have purchased ten queens for new up-river hives. This year I was able to buy the girls from Cold Country Queens in New York State. I particularly wanted queens from this source because they raise Russian Queens … Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Farm, honeybee, install, Maple Falls, queens, Russian, Washington
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Changing Hives from Winter to Spring Mode
What We Call Spring I was musing a posting or two ago on when to feed my bees. The time is now (for me). The alders are in pollen, but the weather is too foul for the bees to come … Continue reading
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Tagged Bean, beekeeper, bees, Brookfield, Farm, feeding, honeybee, how to, Karen, Maple Falls, preparation, spring, Washington, Winter
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Prehistoric Bee Fossils
A tale of three bee fossils: 14 million years ago: honeybees in “North America”, 19 million years ago giant honeybees in “Japan”, 100 million years ago bees in “Burma” Continue reading
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Tagged amber, bee, bees in amber, fossils, giant bee, honeybee, honeybees, prehistoric
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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading
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Tagged Bean, bee, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Farm, honeybee, honeybees, how to, images, Karen, Karen Bean, Maple Falls, mating, nucleus, nucs, pictures, queen bee, queens, Washington
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Bee Health Survey & Tropilaelaps Mites
Brookfield Farm participates in the USDA survey of honey bee pests and diseases : the search for exotic pests including the asian Tropilaelaps mite. Continue reading
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Tagged Apis, bee, bee health, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Cape Honeybee, capensis, cerana, diseases, Farm, health, hive, hives, honeybee, honeybees, Maple Falls, mellifera, mites, pests, Tropilaelaps, USDA, Washington
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Honeybee Books
Books on Honeybees and other Insects that Beekeeper Karen Bean recommends, or simply likes. From the practical : “how to keep bees” and “how to raise queens” to honey bee behavior and insects in general. Karen Bean is the Beekeeper at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading
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Tagged 40 Years Among The Bees, Ants and Wasps", bee biology, bee books, bees, behavior, biology, Biology of the Honey Bee, book reviews, books, breeding, Breeding Queens, bug, C.C. Miller, Dr. Marla Spivak, Eric Grissell, Gilles Fert, Honey Plants of North America, honeybee, honeybee biology, Honeybee Democracy, how to keep bees, insects, Insects of the Pacific Northwest, Jay Smith, John H. Lovell, Judy Haggard, Mark L. Winston, Miller, Natural Beekeeping, Peter Haggard, Queen Rearing Simplified, queens, raising, raising queens, reviews, Ross Conrad, social, social behavior, Successful Queen Rearing, Thomas D. Seeley
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Eggs and Larvae For A Queen
Giving a frame of eggs and larvae to a queenless beehive. The timing and luck involved in going from a frame of eggs and larvae to a laying queen Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, cells, comb, congreation area, drones, eggs, frame, honeybee, Hopkins, larva, larvae, queen cell, queenless, queens, timing
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