Posts Tagged: ABC of Bee Culture

Bee-utiful Find

It was a bee-utiful find: A how-to book published in 1890 on rearing honey bees. We found the book, ABC of Bee Culture: A Cyclopedia of Everything Pertaining to the Care of the Honey Bee; Bees, Honey, Hives, Implements, Honey-Plants, Etc. by A. I. Root,...

Inside the Hive

QUEEN BEE and her colony. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Wax Moth Larvae

WAX MOTH LARVAE were mentioned in A. I. Root's "ABC of Bee Culture," published in 1890, but not the small hive beetle (center left). Its presence wasn't confirmed in the United States until 1998. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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