Blue Sky Bee Supply Blog

John Miller, Project Apis m. Board of Directors, CFOHoney bees have been trying to train humans to keep them indoors over winter for thousands of years. The early examples bees used were trees, hollow trees selected by the super-organism, the hive. Trees provided cavities ideal for indoor wintering: well-insulated, controlled atmosphere, safely above ground. Along came humans with their logs and skeps and rectangles. Then came the moveable frame. And then, keeping hives outdoors …

In a bid to ensure consumers could see for themselves that we supply honest, undamaged and fully traceable honey we developed the TraceMe online honey app.Airborne Honey has been owned and operated by the Bray family in South Canterbury for generations. It is one of the world’s most scientifically advanced honey companies with a deep practical knowledge of varietal characteristics…We operate an in-house laboratory and proprietary, fit-for-purpose software to analyze product samples …

April 11, 2017 by Entomology Today, By Meredith Swett WalkerThe European honey bee (Apis mellifera), shown above with a Varroa destructor mite on its thorax, can be bred, or “selected,” for mite resistance, such as in the Russian honey bee stock. However, a new study shows the Russian honey bee may still be vulnerable in areas with significant Varroa mite presence. (Photo credit: Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org)Imagine a parasite about the size of a grapefr …

Mountain-dwelling East African honey bees have distinct genetic variations compared to their savannah relatives that likely help them to survive at high altitudes. And the bees living in the mountain forests look and behave differently from their surrounding lowland counterparts, Mountain bees are larger, darker and less aggressive than savannah bees, and can fly at lower temperatures and conserve honey when flowers aren’t blooming But despite their differences, the bees are the same …

A joint collaboration between the Bee Informed Partnership, the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory and USDA-APHIS has been established in the short term to primarily provide for free diagnostics of honey bee brood for American foul brood disease and other brood diseases. We will also offer other pest and disease diagnostics for a nominal fee. Please see https://beeinformed.org/diagnostics/ for additional information.Thank you for your patience. We realize the challenges and are very happy …