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Archive - March 2011

beekeeping equipment

Slatted racks: how should the slats be arranged?

10 years ago
14 Comments
3 min read
beekeeping equipment • how to

How to make follower boards for a Langstroth hive

10 years ago
42 Comments
2 min read
photographs

A slow drink of cool water

10 years ago
1 Comment
1 min read
English for beekeepers

Wednesday word file: slumgum

10 years ago
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2 min read
beekeeping equipment • comb honey production • how to

How many frames should you put in a Langstroth box?

10 years ago
28 Comments
4 min read
pollination

Who pollinates the daffodils?

10 years ago
14 Comments
3 min read
spring management

Measuring the bone pile: death in the hive

10 years ago
7 Comments
1 min read
bee forage

Native bee forage: baby blue eyes

10 years ago
1 Comment
1 min read
English for beekeepers • honey bee management • pollination • wild bees and native bees

Wednesday word file: pollination saturation

10 years ago
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comb honey

Why is comb honey so expensive?

10 years ago
12 Comments
3 min read

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Regardless of dictionaries, we have in entomology a rule for insect common names that can be followed. It says: If the insect is what the name implies, write the two words separately; otherwise run them together. Thus we have such names as house fly, blow fly, and robber fly contrasted with dragonfly, caddicefly, and butterfly, because the latter are not flies, just as an aphislion is not a lion and a silverfish is not a fish. The honey bee is an insect and is preeminently a bee; “honeybee” is equivalent to “Johnsmith.”

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