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		<title>Not the Best Bee Day &#8211; Zia in Jeopardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I went through my hives in my backyard. &#160;My friend Julie&#8217;s husband, Seth, who used to keep bees in 1989 and wants to get back to it, came over and went through the hives with me. We&#8217;ve had rain and cooler weather over the last ten days or so. &#160;And the nectar flow has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bees and STDs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talked about Varroa Mites yesterday, and I wanted to point out that solitary bees also have parasites that can be deadly.  Osmia, or Mason bees, occur in all shapes and sizes, but nearly all 300 species are fuzzy, mild-mannered, and adorable.  They&#8217;re called mason bees because they create nest chambers out of mud.  Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To bee (cam) or not to bee (cam)? That is the question!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been an idea that I&#8217;ve been tossing around for a couple of years, and that&#8217;s setting up my own &#8222;bee cam&#8221; system. Not a bee cam inside the hives, but one that focuses on the outside of the hives so you can watch the bees come and go. There used to be one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s hard out there for a bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[The second in my guest post gig over at Scientopia] I spent my first post lamenting confusion over CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder), honey bees, and native bee species. One key problem is that CCD as described by entomologists is not the same as &#8220;disappearing bees&#8221; as described by media or Hollywood. (Although, to be fair, &#8220;vanishing bees&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspecting Hives &#8211; This and That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Sebastian&#8217;s and Christina&#8217;s house, the bees were doing well. &#160;Interestingly the blue hive which is a 10 frame set up is growing faster than the yellow hive which is an 8 frame set up. In the blue hive there were only six undrawn frames total in all the boxes. &#160;I might not be back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Beepocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I am doing a guest gig at Scientopia this week, and will be re-publishing posts I write for them here as well] Right now, even people who aren&#8217;t bug dorks like me are really interested in bees.  This is a mixed blessing for an entomologist. The Good: As the American population becomes more distant from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It All Adds Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** 0: the number of chemicals or pesticides I use in my hive. ⅜ of an inch: bee space. 1: the number of queens in most beehives 1: the number of times a worker bee can sting 2 days: the amount of time in which a larva can still become a queen if fed royal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen Mating Flights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queen bees mate in flight. In areas where Africanized Honey Bee genes are not prevalent, honey bee queens are allowed to mate with drones in the area. These “open mated” queens typically receive genetic material from between 12 and 20 drones when they fly into drone concentration areas. Having a large number of drones in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death by Drowning, But Revival by a New Queen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My flower pot swarm trap caught a swarm that I called Little Kitten because it was so small. &#160;I think it was a secondary swarm and was relieved to find that finally a mated queen was laying in the wax comb. I had a Boardman feeder at the entrance of the nuc &#8211; and those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://worldbee.net/index.php/death-by-drowning-but-revival-by-a-new-queen/</link>
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		<title>Young Harris Beekeeping Institute 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home from Young Harris Beekeeping Institute today and I&#8217;m exhausted. &#160;This, for me, is the end of seven weeks of over-commitment and now it&#8217;s setting in that I am TIRED. Young Harris was great in so many ways. &#160;I learned a lot and heard some good speakers: &#160;Juliana Rangel from NC State and Gary Reuter [...]]]></description>
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