russian queen cells

member, beekeeper FRED is raising Russian queens in small quantities.  Russians are reputed to be resistant to both tracheal and varroa mites. He is an amateur at this endeavor, but will eventually be selling any surplus mated queens for a nominal price to cover his costs.  If interested email him at:  fredransome@aol.com 

Keeping Neonics out of your Garden...

here's a nice "brochure" from the XERCES society - download and print for future reference:
keeping neonics out of the garden

a DIRECT LINK to USDA BEE RESEARCH PAGE

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12-45-33-00

browse around in there - you can really get into some good articles, like:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jul09/mites0709.htm
I WANT a MITE LURE/TRAP!  article was from 2009. FIVE YEARS AGO, what's holding back this line of thought???

queen rearing class...OHIO

http://blog.beeculture.com/index.php/queen-rearing-class/

link: tell the FDA what you think about honey laundering

http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=40521&em_id=33821.0