Australian Bees Banned By APHIS

Australian Bees Banned By APHIS By Alan Harman With little public fanfare, the United States has banned the importation of honey bee queens and package bees from Australia. Minister Counselor (Agriculture) Simon Smalley at the Australian Embassy in Washington and a...

New Demons Found. The CCD Trail Gets Much Warmer.

In 2007a team* was formed to search for the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Using mass spectrometry-based proteomics, a technique modified by the military for screening samples for pathogens, they found a fungus and an unusual virus associated with samples from...

No Buzz

New York City, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Denver…There’s no telling which city or county will be next to allow bees, beekeepers and beekeeping in backyards, on rooftops and vacant lots. But there are still a host of cities and towns and other places that haven’t seen the...

Honey Laundering

As beekeepers, honey packers, and importers our challenges seem to grow faster than we can produce honey.  The ever-evolving and complex schemes devised to enter honey into our market without paying the U.S. antidumping duty on Chinese honey imports is mind-boggling,...