Thursday, January 12, 2017

2017-01-11: What's New?

Well I had hoped to make some posts from time to time about any new bee info out there and I've finally read a few things that piqued my interest so I thought I'd share:

Always some interesting articles this website but quite a bit of the information in this particular post that I had never heard of before!  Both of these articles are very timely since we are in the middle of Winter.

Cool stuff about what a winter bee is and how they are formed
https://honeybeesuite.com/what-are-winter-bees-and-what-do-they-do/

Perhaps another piece to the puzzle as to why winter losses have skyrocketed since the mid 1980's (besides Varroa Destructor).
http://www.beeculture.com/catch-buzz-uw-stout-professor-students-identify-bacterium-may-kill-honey-bees/

I hope all your bee efforts are going strong out there and I do miss having the bees.  On the other hand, I haven't spent all winter worrying about them!  =)