A new way to lessen damage from small hive beetles in honey bee colonies has been developed. Small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) began appearing in U.S. hives during the past 15 to 20 years and now ...
Dead-outs: that dreaded event in a beekeeper’s world when an entire colony of bees dies in the hive. It was a heartbreaking day in mid-December when we found that one of our colonies had died out.