Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
If Einstein were alive today, he might point to the mysterious colony collapse disorder [...]

Column #23: Here Come the Dot-Coms, Part Two – A Web Designer Combines His Skill With Beekeeping
By Dr. Malcolm T. Sanford
Last month I discussed several examples of apicultural dot-coms that have recently been proliferating on the World Wide Web. As the information revolution matures, there are sure to be many more. [...]

Chinese honey coming into Canada and used in certain products has been found to contain an illegal pesticide.
Chinese Honey Contaminated
HEALTH HAZARD ALERT: CERTAIN FOOD PRODUCTS MAY CONTAIN CHLORAMPHENICOL
OTTAWA, April 19, 2002 – The public warning issued on April 18, 2002 has been expanded to include additional product information. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is [...]

By J. W. WHITE, JR. AND LANDIS W. DONER(1)
BEEKEEPING IN THE UNITED STATES
AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK NUMBER 335
Revised October 1980
Pages 82 – 91
Honey is essentially a highly concentrated water solution of two sugars, dextrose and levulose, with small amounts of at least 22 other more complex sugars. Many other substances also occur in honey, but the sugars [...]

BY STEPHEN TABER III(1)
BEEKEEPING IN THE UNITED STATES
AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK NUMBER 335
Revised October 1980
Pages 33 – 38
Bee behavior refers to what bees do – as individuals and as a colony. By studying their behavior, we may learn how to change it to our benefit.
Two practical discoveries of bee behavior made our beekeeping of today possible. One [...]

By NORBERT M. KAUFFELD(1)
BEEKEEPING IN THE UNITED STATES
AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK NUMBER 335
Revised October 1980
Pages 30 – 32
A colony of honey bees comprises a cluster of several to 60,000 workers (sexually immature females), a queen (a sexually developed female), and, depending on the colony population and season of year, a few to several hundred drones (sexually developed [...]

BY WILLIAM P. NYE(1)
BEEKEEPING IN THE UNITED STATES
AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK NUMBER 335
Revised October 1980
Pages 10 – 15
Based on flora, beekeeping methods, and land topography, the continental United States can be divided into seven geographical regions (fig. 1). Each region is discussed here from the standpoint of honey production and methods of beekeeping operations.
The flora, climate, and [...]

American Bee Journal, February, 1977, Vol. 117 (2): 76, 77

by ROY J. BARKER
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bee Research Laboratory
2000 E. Allen Road, Tucson, Arizona 85719
ABSTRACT
Sugars which poison honey bees, and impurities in commercial sugars which are harmful are discussed. There is no sugar better than pure sucrose.
COST is a primary consideration in agricultural feeds. [...]

Chalkbrood Research at Madison, Wisconsin*
by FLOYD E. MOELLER and PAUL H. WILLIAMS
Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Plant Pathology, Colleges of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
Introduction
CHALKBROOD disease of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., is caused by a fungus, Ascosphaera apis (Maassen ex Claussen) Olive & Spiltoir, [...]

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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL – vol. 100 – Number 5 – May, 1960, pages 192, 193
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C. L. Farrar
Entomology Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A.(1)
The beekeeper must recognize that Federal food-additive laws now in effect apply to honey as well as all other foods. The large purchasers of honey are requesting suppliers to certify that the honey [...]