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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment

Keep honey bees dry and draft free

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
physics for beekeepers

Hive temperature vs humidity

8 years ago
17 Comments
beekeeping equipment

Don’t miss these photos!

8 years ago
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To study how bees keep warm in winter, Bill Reynolds installed temperature monitors in three hives. Two hives contained bees and one was empty.
physics for beekeepers

How do honey bees stay warm in winter?

8 years ago
34 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
physics for beekeepers

Physics for beekeepers: temperature in the hive

9 years ago
24 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
physics for beekeepers

Physics for beekeepers: heat loss from spheres

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior • wintering

How much honey for a warm winter?

11 years ago
8 Comments
Many dead bees head-down in their cells.
wintering

The truth about bees that die head-down in honeycomb

12 years ago
23 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology

Temperature regulation in a winter cluster

12 years ago
9 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees • honey bee management • wintering

Why are all my bees at the top of the hive?

12 years ago
31 Comments
A winter day with snow. Honey bees do not hibernte but keep active all winter long.
honey bee behavior • honey bee myths

Honey bees do not hibernate any time of year

12 years ago
2 Comments

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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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