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The Sweet Science: Protecting Colorado's Honey Bee Colonies with the National Honey Bee Survey by Shelli Quattlebaum

Honey Bee Biosecurity in Colorado We as beekeepers can get busy and overwhelmed sometimes with the long to do list in our apiary's. When we get busy, we tend to forget steps to ensure we are not transferring viruses and diseases from one apiary to the next. Through exchanging frames, using the same beekeeping gloves and tools and picking up debris like wax and smashed bees on our shoes and carrying it from one apiary to the next. We are also keeping the frames that could be

The Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas focuses on tracking the bumble bees of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Hiking in Colorado Bumblebee Ecology

The Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas focuses on tracking the bumble bees of  Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming.

Spring in Colorado, Honey Bees in the Chicken Feed Almost every year I see a bunch of posts on Facebook and Instagram about honey bees bothering chickens in the spring, trying to get into their chickens feed. My chickens included! The bees are trying to gather protein off of the corn dust that is in your chickens food. Corn dust is not the most nutritious food source for them, but when we keep European Honey bees in an environment not conducive to feed them year round, they w