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New Products for a New Year

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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Belated Happy New Year! It's been a cold winter so far this year and it looks like the cold weather will be around for awhile. The 10 day forecast doesn't show anything above freezing. There isn't much one can do with the bees besides repairing old equipment and preparing new... (original story)

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Swarm Removal on the Ohio State Association Website

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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The Ohio State Beekeepers Association website is getting a bit of a face lift with new content, event calendar and more. And we are happy to announce they have added our swarm removal look up to their website. (Ok, I did have a hand in it since I’m also their new webmaster). This does mean h... (original story)

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Petition to Ban Clothianidin

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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Not long ago in a bee sized version of the Wikileaks leak, a beekeeper “leaked” an internal EPA document to the public the clearly shows the pesticide “Clothianidin” is toxic to bees. Yet in spite of their own findings they chose to ignore the facts and instead based thei... (original story)

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Pepsi Could Help Beekeeping

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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With your vote, Pepsi could help out beekeeping. The following was received from the Ohio State Beekeepers association about a sophomore student who is in the running to get a beekeeping grant: My daughter, Nicole, has been beekeeping with a mentor since she was 9 years old. She is a Sophomor... (original story)

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Beekeeping in Style

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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So what do you picture a beekeeper wearing… a boring white suit of course, often dirty and stained up with propolis and dirt. I’ve mentioned to my wife before that I though there might be market for more stylish suits, particular with all the new hobbiests starting beekeeping these pa... (original story)

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BP Oil

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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I know this is completely off topic (bee p related jokes aside) and has not been in the news as much recently despite being as much a problem as it has been since day one, but…. Is anyone else out there bothered by the fact that the best solution BP can come up with to solve the oi... (original story)

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Big Jump in Packages and Queen Prices

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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Packages and queens typically go up in price a dollar or two each year which is expected due higher costs in materials, labor and fuel/transportation. This year however, package prices are up big time. 10% or more in some cases equating to 5 to 10 dollars per package. It’s the bigges... (original story)

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2011 Beginning Beekeeping Workshop

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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The Northwest Ohio Beekeepers association will be giving a beginning beekeeping workshop January 19th at the OSU campus in Lima, Ohio. This workshop is designed for people who would like to get started in beekeeping, those who have had previous beekeeping experience and want to get back into beeke... (original story)

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Please Ignore the Mess

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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Over the coming weeks I’ll be working on reorganizing this website and blog to hopefully make it easier to maintain and give it a bit of a facelift. The main site was originally implemented in phpwcms which is a great simple php based CMS (Content management system). It’s easy to s... (original story)

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Cold April

Posted from Honey Run Apiaries-A Beekee... 21 days ago
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This has had to be the most consistently cold April that I can recall in the past many years. The next 4 days aren’t looking much better either though it’s actually on the warm side compared to the past few days with highs that only were in the mid 40s. Typically we would have nearly ... (original story)