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Larry Connor: How to Keep Your Bees Alive and Growing

Beekeeper and author Larry Connor is a frequent speaker on the bee conference circuit. This photo was taken in 2010 at the Western Apicultural Society's meeting in Healdsburg, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

How do you keep your bees alive and growing? That will be the topic of honey bee guru Lawrence...

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Posted on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 5:51 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beekeeping (4), Eric Mussen (71), honey bees (297), Larry Connor (1), Western Apicultural Society (10)

A Honey of a Day--And It Gets Better!

Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño shows a frame to her class at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Saturday, Aug. 19 promises to be a honey of a day--in more ways than one! And it gets better! It's...

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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2017 at 2:37 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Elina Lastro Niño (2), honey bees (297), National Honey Bee Awareness Day (2), National Honey Bee Day (4), varroa mites (3), Western Apicultural Society (10)

Top-Bar Beekeeping Advocate Les Crowder to Speak at WAS Conference at UC Davis

Les Crowder examines a frame from his top-bar hive. A resident of Austin, Texas, he will speak Sept. 7 at the Western Apicultural Society conference at UC Davis.

Are top-bar beekeeping hives for you? What are their advantages and disadvantages as compared to...

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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (5), Eric Mussen (71), honey bees (297), Les Crowder (1), top-bar hives (1), tropical milkweed (1), Western Apicultural Society (10)

Why Turning 40 Is a Bee-Boggling Event: Western Apicultural Society's Big Conference

Pointing out the queen bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Turning 40 can be mind-boggling. But it will be bee-boggling--all bee-boggling--when the Western...

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Posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: 40th anniversary (1), Eric Mussen (71), honey bees (297), Kim Flottum (4), Norm Gary (9), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (11), Western Apicultural Society (10)

The Buzz Behind the Bee

Eric Mussen, WAS president, and his wife, Helen, who is assisting him in his presidency, sit next to Miss Bee Haven, a sculpture that anchors the Häagen Dazs Bee Haven at UC Davis. The sculpture is the work of Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's the buzz behind the bee? The Western Apicultural Society, headed by president Eric Mussen...

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Posted on Monday, July 31, 2017 at 4:27 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Bee Culture (1), Eric Mussen (71), honey bee health (3), honey bees (297), honey bees (297), Kim Flottum (4), Steve Dana (2), Western Apicultural Society (10)

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