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LOCAL SUPPLIERS

• BeeManiacs - Local supplier of bees and beekeeping equipment
• Mark T Durst & Sons - Local supplier of candles and honey
• Miller's Homestead - Local resource of bees, beekeeping equipment and fine natural honey
  
• Tate's Honey Farm - Local supplier of bees and beekeeping equipment
• Wolf Fork Apiary - Located in Dayton, Washington. Package bees, pick up only.  For more information contact Elmer Segraves (509) 520-9052; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ORGANIZATIONS

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• American Beekeeping Federation - Acts on behalf of the beekeeping industry on issues affecting the various sectors of the industry.
• Washington State Beekeepers Association - Serves hobbyist and professional Beekeepers in Washinton State.
• Inland Empire Beekeepers Association - A group offering a forum to beekeepers in the area surrounding Spokane, Washington and Northern Idaho.
• Backyard Beekeepers -  An Association serving the hobbist beekeeper in north Spokane County and Idaho Panhandle areas.
• WSU Honey Bees + Polinators -  Information on research in the Diagnostic Lab, the Research Lab, and on the Breeding Program at Washington State University.
• Washington State Department of Agriculture. Apiary -  Washington State information on beekeeping including apriary registration forms, laws and rules.
• Bee Informed Partnership - Up-to-date summaries of date from the nation's beekeepers.
• Project Apis M - Funds and directs research to enhance the health and vitality of honey bee colonies while improving crop production.
• Honey Bee Health Coalition - Works to foster healthy bee and native pollinator populations.
• eXtension - America's Research-Based Learning Network - Delivers research-based information emerging from America's land-grant university system including Washington State University.
• USDA Agricultural Research Service Bee Research - Conducts research on the biology and control of honey bee parasites, diseases, and pests to ensure an adequate supply of bees for pollination and honey production.
• Pollinator Stewardship Council - Defends managed and nature pollinators... from the adverse impact of pesticides.
• Apis Information Resource Center  - Seeks to promote beekeeping through a wide range of topics that are of interest to both the beginner and advanced beekeeper.
• Bee Friendly Initiative - Collaborative research project by Washington State University, Department of Entomology and the Washington State Beekeepers Association to "Give Bees a Chance" through mushroom extract feeding.
• Pollinator Partnership -  Mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.
• Xerces Society - Working to protect invertebrates and their habitats.

BASIC INSTRUCTION

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• Hobbyist Beekeeping - A series of 13 video lessons on beginning beekeeping sponsored by the Spokane County Library District Hobbyist Beekeeping

BEEKEEPING

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• NEW! The Difference Between a Package and a NUC, by Jennifer Sartell, in Keeping Backyard Bees, March 2017
• NEW! Catching Swarms + Video Tutorial, by Gene Rene, in Keeping Backyard Bees, June 3, 2015
•  NEW! The Importance of Spring Feeding, by Jennifer Sartell, in Keeping Backyard Bees, April 14, 2015 
  
• NEW! DIY Bee Yard Feeder,  in Keeping Backyard Bees, January 12, 2017
•  Propolis in the Hive, by Nancy Buffington, in Keeping Backyard Bees, November 18, 2014 
•  Feeding Bees - Keeping Your Hives Alive, by Claire Jones, in Keeping Backyard Bees, December 2, 2016
• How Much Space Does a Bee Hive Need? by Hilary Kearney, in Keeping Backyard Bees, November 5, 2016
• Understanding Your Smoker, by Jennifer Sartell, in Keeping Backyard Bees, January 31, 2015
• Keeping Bees in Straw Hives, by Susan Chernak McElroy, in Keeping Backyard Bees, October 23, 2016
• The Flow Hive: Worth the Hype? by Ann Barczewski, in  Keeping Backyard Bees, February 23, 2015
• 5 Things to Know Before Getting Bees, by Hilary, in  Keeping Backyard Bees, July 30, 2016
• Local Novice Beekeepers Do Their Part to Fight Colony Collapse, by Jonathan Glover in the Spokesman Review, July 25, 2016
• Beekeeping: Building Bees by Dan Nailen, in Inlander, June 16-22, 2016
• Beekeeping 101 by Marcia Froelke Colburn, in Subaru Drive, Summer 2016
• A Growing Buzz by Jill McKenna Reed, in Subaru Drive, Summer 2016

HONEY BEES

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• NEW! Honey Bee Vibration Signal Might Also Be a Kind of Startle Response, in Bee Culture, March 16, 2017
• NEW! So Where Do Honey Bees Come From Really? in Bee Culture, March 8, 2017
• NEW! Help Bees By Restoring Natural Landscapes... Roadside Planting...and Urban Gardening Initiatives, by Bill Hicks, in Bee Culture Magazine, January 16, 2017
• Honey Bee Teenagers Speed Up the Aging Process of Their Elders, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 14, 2016
• Honey Bee Memories: Another Piece of the Alzheimer's Puzzle?, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 18, 2016
• A New Sperm Bank for Honeybees Could Save Agriculture. (Research by Washington State University), by Taryn Phaneuf, in Civil Eats, November 2, 2016
• No Single Protein Determines Queen Development in Honeybees, in Bee Culture Magazine, October 21, 2016
• Researchers Travel World to Breed a Better Honeybee, by Matthew Weaver, in Capital Press, September 22, 2016
• Golden Goose Award Goes to Scientists Who Use Bees for Web Hosting, by Anne Hoy, in Bee Culture, September 27, 2016
• Central Valley Farmers Aim to Sting Beehive Theives, in CBS SF Bay Area, September 8, 2016
• How Water Collector Bees Know When to Quench Hot Hive's Thirst, in Psy.org, July 20, 2016
• Keeping the Colony Cool; Fanning, Leaving, and Collecting and  Storing  Water in the  Hive, by Susan Milius, in Bee Culture, August 3, 2016
• Researchers Discover How Honey Bees ‘Telescope’ Their Abdomens, in Bee Culture, August 1, 2016
• Critical Structure for Telescopic Movement of Honey Bee (Insecta: Apidae) Abdomen: Folded Intersegmental Membrane, by Jieliang Zhao, Shaoze Yan, Jianing Wu, in Journal of Insect Science, July 25, 2016 
• Researchers Identify How Queen Bees Repress Workers' Fertility,  in Bee Culture, August 4, 2016
• Notch signalling mediates reproductive constraint in the adult worker honeybee, in Nature Communications, August 3, 2016
• Wild Birds Learn to Recognize When Humans Ask for Honey, by John Timmer in ARS Technica, July 22, 2016
  
• Governor's mansion gets 30,000 honey bees, video by Associated Press, KING, April 20, 2016
• Famished bee larvae cope better with starvation in later life, by Kathryn Knight in Journal of Experimental Biology, 2016
• Advantages of "Small Cell Bees"  From Enjoy Beekeeping, by Gene Rene,  in Keeping Backyard Bees, February 5, 2015
• A Better Bee? Researchers at WSU Are Trying to Create Hardier Honeybees, by Russ Walsh,  in The Inlander, March 17, 2016
• First 21 Days of a Bee's Life - An amazing one minute video by National Geographic from egg to adult bee
• Ted Talks About Honey Bees, including Why Bees Are Disappearing by Maria Spivak; Pollinators in Peril by Maria Spivak; BEE-have So We Can BEE-have by Beth Conray; and the Beauty of Pollination
• Nature Outlook Bees - Special supplement to Nature featuring articles from science journalists and opinion pieces from leading experts, May 20, 2015
• State Laws related to honey bees posted by the Pollinator Stewardship Council, March 2015 - State documents related to bees.
• Propolis in the Hive, by Nancy Buffington, in Keeping Backyard Bees, November 18, 2014
• Honey Bee Genotypes and The Environment - Journal of Apicultural Research, Vol. 53 Issue 2, 2014
• Bees Need Honey's Natural Pharmaceuticals - Keeping bees healthy
• Bee Study Lifts Lid on Hive Habits - Experiments on division of labour among honeybees reveal why some worker bees are foragers while others nurse their queens - Reported from The Guardian
• Insects Have Personality Too! - National Science Foundation, March 8, 2012
• Caffeine Improves Memory in Bees - Lizzie Wade, Science Magazine, March 7, 2013
• Bees Buzz Each Other, but Not the Way You Think - Sid Perkins, Science Magazine, March 27, 2013 -  Tests suggest that the electrical fields that build up on bees due to their flight or movement are stimuli that could be used in social communication
• Bees are in Crisis  - Costco Connection, November 2013 - About what the difficulties honey bees are experiencing affects all of us
• Photographer Begins Epic Journey to Photograph Our Nation's Struggling Bees -Mother Nature Network, March 2, 2014 - Article about photographer Clay Bolt who is rolling out a huge project, traveling across the United States documenting the state of the nation's bees

HONEY BEES - LOCAL HISTORY AND CURRENT NEWS

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• NEW! Bees are Slowly Going Extinct. These Prisoners Are Trying to Stop That, Through the West Plains Beekeepers Association, the Washington State Airway Heights Corrections Center established a local beekeeping club. Jim Miller of West Plains helped teach a select group of inmates on basic beekeeping skills. by Dominique Mosbergen, in the Huffington Post, April 4, 2017
• Hive Management Timetable for Spokane by Ancel Goolsby 1978 - Recommended Beekeeping Practices in the Spokane Area in the 1970's

POLLINATORS

• NEW! The First-Ever Map Tracking U.S. Wild Bees Suggests They Are Disappearing..., in Bee Culture, March 28, 2017
• NEW! How to Eat a Plant: Phytochemical lDetoxificaton in Bees vs. Butterflies, a video presentation by Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois, posted in AGRO, Chemistry for and from Agriculture, on March 20, 2017
• NEW! Bumblebees' Smelly Feet Help Determine Where to Find Lunch, in Science Blog, March 7, 2017
• NEW! Bees Are Even Smarter Than We Realized, by Annalee Newitz, in ARS Technica, February 24, 2017
• NEW! Insect Sized Drones Can Pollinate Plants..., in Bee Culture, February 23, 2017
• NEW! Precision Spray Pollination Would Negate Problems Such As Not Having Enough Honey Bees..., in Bee Culture, February 2, 2017
•  Valley Farmers Aim to Provide Bees with Appetizers, Dessert to Go with Main Meal... and Mechanical Pollination? Really? in Bee Culture, January 26, 2017
•  Bees' Ability to Forage Decreases as Air Pollution Increases, by Liam Jackson, in Penn State News, January 17, 2017
•  Picky Eaters: Bumble Bees Prefer Plants with Nutrient-rich Pollen, by Sara LaJeunesse, in Penn State News, January 17, 2017
•  This Bumble Bee Was Just Added to the Endangered Species List, by Jenny Luna, in Mother Earth News, January 13, 2017
•  Bees Prefer to Forage Upside Down...So Their Bee Butts and Hind Legs Are Warmed by the Dark Petals..., in Bee Culture, January 12, 2017
•  Cost of Pollination, Released December 22, 2016, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
•  Native Agricultural Pollinators: Eastern Washington,  posted by www.bentler.us, 2004-2014
•  Plants for Pollinators in the Inland Northwest, USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service Spokane, Washington - Boise, Idaho, Biology Technical Note No. 24 , Revised March 2013
•  Partial List of Plant Species for Pollinator Habitat in the Inland Pacific Northwest, Pullman Plant Materials Center, Washington State University
•  We're Working to Help Pollinators in Our State -- Here's How You Can Help Too,  by Barbara LaBoe, Washington Department of Transportation, June 20, 2016
•  Flower Power: the Physics of Pollination, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 31, 2016
•  First Ever Cost of Pollination Report Just Released, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 27, 2016
•  Creation of Robot Bee to Pollinate Crops, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 20, 2016
•  Some Flies Can Detect Chemical Signals... that Bees Give Off When Attacked. Some Flowers Use that to Trick the Flies, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 7, 2016
•  String Pulling Bees Provide Insight Into Spread of Culture, in Science News, October 4, 2016
•  7 Bee Species Have Been Added to the US Endangered Species List, by Josh Hrala, in Science Alert, October 3, 2016
•  University of Massachusetts Amherst Research Finds Untreated Lawns Yield Unexpectedly Rich Bee Species Mix, by Susannah Lerman and Joan Milham, in Bee Culture, Sepetember 9, 2016
•  Agriculture Can Help or Hinder Pollinators, by Mark Brown, in Scimex, August 10, 2016
•  USDA is Working for Pollinators: a Refresher About What They are Doing, in  Catch the Buzz, August 10, 2016
•  Bees' Ability to Forage Decreases as Air Pollution Increases, by Liam Jackson in Penn State News, July 6, 2016
•  Picky Eaters: Bumble Bees Prefer Plants With Nutrient Rich-Pollen,  in Bee Culture, July 7, 2016
• Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board and Honey Bees ,  2016
• Honey Bees Use 'Bee Pastures' Planted by Almond Farmers as Almond Pollination Winds Down,  by Almond Board of California, posted March 23, 2016. 
• Ted Talks About Honey Bees,  including Why Bees Are Disappearing by Maria Spivak; Pollinators in Peril by Maria Spivak; BEE-have So We Can BEE-have by Beth Conray; and the Beauty of Pollination, 2013 - 2015.
• Hives for Pollination and Conservation - How to make your own hives for honey bees, bumble bees and mason bees, by Jennifer Sartell, in  Keeping Backyard Bees,  November 20, 2014.
• Wild Bee Decline Threatens U.S. Crop Production by Joshua E. Brown, University of Vermont Communications, December 12, 2015 - First national study to map U.S. wild bees
• Plants for Pollinators in the Inland Northwest - Recommends plants for pollinators specifically for the Inland Empire area
• National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, May 19, 2015 - White House Report on strategy to enhance pollinator health
• Bees as Flying Doctors by Richard Lehnert, Good Fruit Grower, March 18, 2015 - Commercial cherry growers using honey bees to prevent brown rot
• Ecoregional Planting Guides, Pollinator Partnership - Guide to local pollinators and assistance in identifying what to plant
• Bayer's North American Bee Care Program - Bayer's information on what they are doing to assist in pollinator health

INSECTS

• Vanishing Act: Why Insects Are Declining and Why It Matters by Christian Schwagerl in Yale environment360, July 6, 2016.

HONEY BEE HEALTH

• NEW! How to Eat a Plant: Phytochemical lDetoxificaton in Bees vs. Butterflies, a video presentation by Dr. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois, posted in AGRO, Chemistry for and from Agriculture, on March 20, 2017
• NEW! A Core Set of Genes Involved In the Responses of Honey Bees to Multiple Diseases Has Been Identified, by Sara LaJeunesse, in Bee Culture, March 12, 2017
• NEW! Despite Few Taste Genes Honey Bees Seek Out Essential Nutrients Based on Season, in Science Blog, February 9, 2017
• NEW! Providing an Additional Source of Minerals Might Be Just the Thing for Honey Bees,  in Bee Culture Magazine, February 25, 2017
• Grow Wise, Bee Smart: Promoting Healthy Habits, by the Horticultural Research Institute. Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Bee Health in the Horticulutral Industry.  2015
• Fresh Pollen is Better for Honeybees Than Old Pollen Substitute..., by Jan Suszkiw,  in Bee Culture Magazine, November 30, 2016
• New Findings About the Honey Bee's Deformed Wing Virus, from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, November 26, 2016
• New Organic Acid Varroa Mite Medication, in Bee Culture Magazine, October 15, 2016
• Federal Directive Brings Veterinarians and Beekeepers Together: Drugs for Honey Bee Disease Will Require Veterinarian Prescription in 2017, by R. Scott Nolen, in Bee Culture Magazine, October 5, 2016
  
• Give Bees a Chance, collaborative project by Washington State University and the Washington State Beekeepers Organization on the use of mushroom extract feeding to increase longevity and resistance to CCD, 2016
• Nutrition Matters: Stress From Migratory Beekeeping May Be Eased By Access to Food, by North Carolina State University, August 24, 2016
• ARS Research Leads to Better Understanding of Bee Health, by Kim Kaplan, in USDA Agricultural Research Service, August 2, 2016
• Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists Statement on Honey Bee Wintering Losses in Canada (2016), prepared by CAPA National Survey Committee and Provincial Apiculturists
• Beekeepers Can't Change The Winter, But They Can Change The Bees,  by Max Bartlett, May 10, 2016
• Nation's Beekeepers Lost 44 Percent of Bees in 2015 - 16,  BeeInformed Partnership, May 10, 2016.
• The Dangers of Over-harvesting Honey, by Melissa Caughey, in Keeping Backyard Bees, March 30, 2016. 
• Beware the Ides of March, by Heidi Hermann, March 17, 2016
• Learning to Identify a Common Cause of Winter Death in Northern Climates  by Meghan Milbrath, Michigan State University Extension, March 8, 2016
• 10 Reasons Beehives Die in the Winter,  by Melissa Caughey,  in Keeping Backyard Bees, September 29, 2015.
• When Disaster Strikes By Tony Jadczak, State Apiarist in Maine State Beekeepers Association, Feb 28, 2016
  
• How to Autopsy a Honey Bee Colony,  By  Anita Deeley at BeverlyBees.com, 2014
• U.S. Beekeepers Lost 40% of Bees in 2014–2015, Science Daily, May 2015 - Annual report on honey bee health
• Why Bees are Disappearing by Marla Spivak - A 2013 video talking about four interactive reasons about why bees have started disappearing
• Report on the National Stakeholders Conference on Honey Bee Health, October 2012 - Includes information on CCD, nutrition, pathogens, pests, pesticides, and more

DISEASES and PESTS

•  NEW!Aprocrita: a Bee Film (Wasps and Bees Fighting in Extremely Slow Motion), In Bee Culture, March 7, 2017
•  NEW! Honey Bee Mite Genome Sequenced to Aid in Fight Against Bee Colony Destruction, in Bee Culture, March  6, 2017
•  NEW! Honeybees Outfitted With Tiny Microchips Reveal Possible Bizarre Effects of a Covert, Yet Deadly Virus, by Jen Viegas, in Bee Culture, February 18, 2017
•  NEW! University of Wisconsin-Stout Professor, Students Identify Bacterium That May Kill Honey Bees, in Bee Culture,  January 3, 2017
• Honey Bee Viruses in Wild Bees, by Adam G. Dolezal, in PLOS One, November 10, 2016
• Yet Another Species of Varroa Mite Threatens European Honey Bees, in Bee Culture, December 3, 2016
• Ants in the Hive, by Jennifer Sartell, in  Keeping Backyard Bees, June 4, 2015
• The Transmission of Viruses Between Western and Eastern Honey Bees, published by International Bee Research Association, 2016
• The Buzz About Honey Bee Viruses: If You Wondered About Controling Varroa, Wonder No More..., by Laura M. Brutscher, in PLOS: Pathogens, August 18, 2016
• One Scientist's Crazy Bet to Save the Bees: Join Montsanto, by Hannah Nordhaus, in Wired, August 28, 2016
• Varroa Mites - A Community Problem, in Apis Information Research Center, 2016
• They're Here! Yellow Jacket Season Begins, by Susan Chernak McElroy, in Keeping Backyard Bees, August 9, 2016
• Western Yellow Jacket,  by John Kabashima, in University of California Nursery and Floriculture Alliance, February 28, 2016
• Developing Baits for the Control of Yellowjackets in California, by Michael K. Rust, Donald A. Reierson, and Rick Vetter,  Department of Entomology University of California, Riverside, 2010
• Approaches and Challenges to Managing Nosema Parasites in Honey Bee Colonies, in Bee Culture Magazine, August 14, 2016
• Cannibalizing Honey Bees Target Deadly Mite That Kills Colonies, by Hembree Brandon, in Delta Farm Press, August 2, 2016
• Here's the Colony-Killing Mistake Backyard Beekeepers Make, by Dan Gunderson, in MPR News, August 4, 2016
• Zombie Flies: a Potential New Threat to Beekeeping, by Jon Zawislak,  May 31, 2016
  
• Fighting the Good Fight for Varroa Resistance in Bees, by Pat Deavoll, in NZFarmer.co.nz, March 11, 2016 
• Parasite-Pathogen Partnership - Parasitic mites that transmit a honey bee-infecting virus may benefit from spreading the pathogen, by Ashley P. Taylor. TheScientist, March 7, 2016
• When Varroa Mites Hitch a Ride - Text and Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey, March 1, 2016
• Seaweeds Save Bees! Study of the effects of feeding seaweed for Nosema control, in Advance Science, August 24, 2015
• Nosema Ceranae Can Infect Honey Bee Larvae and Reduces Subsequent Adult Longevity, May 27, 2015 - New study on nosema and its impact on larval development
• Honeybee Diseases and Pests from the Washington State Beekeepers Association - Table (with photos) that describes the most common diseases and pests
• Nature's 'Medicine Cabinet' Fights Bee Disease, Yahoo News, February 17, 2015 - Nectar contains natural chemicals that may help fight parasite infection
• Parasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Die Off - Information about the so-called zombie fly
• Antimicrobial Activity - Antimicrobial activity of some Argentinean wild plant essential oils against Paenibacillus larvae, casual agent of American foulbrood (AFB)
• Mite Control - Mite control in Honey Bee Hives with Essential Oils & Formic Acid Fumigation
• American Foulbrood and Humans - American Foulbrood, CDC and humans
• Pesticides approved in Washington State to control or suppress tracheal mites and/or varroa mites in Honey Bee Colonies, Approved Washington State Pesticides
• Mite Away Quick Strips are now approved in all 50 States - American Bee Journal
  
• A Widely Used Bee Antibiotic May Harm Rather Than Help - American Bee Journal
• Improve Nutrition for Honey Bee Colonies to Stimulate Population Growth, Increase Queen Quality, and Reduce the Impact of Varroa Mite
  

PESTICIDES & FUNGICIDES

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• NEW  E.P.A Chief Chooses Not to Ban Chlorpyrifos, Going Against His Own Agency's Findings, in Bee Culture, April 4, 2017 
• NEW  An Inert Pesticide Adjuvant Synergizes Viral Pathogenicity and Mortality in Honey Bee Larvae, in Scientific Reports, published online January 16, 2017
• NEW Fungicies Commonly Used in Almond Orchards Can Be Harmful to Almond Growers' Best Friends - Honey Bees, in Bee Culture, March 29, 2017
•  NEW  Europe Poised for Total Ban on Bee-Harming Pesticides, in The Guardian, March 23, 2017
•  NEW  EPA Finds Pesticides Could Harm Endangered Species,  in Bee Culture Magazine, February 3, 2017
• Understanding the Colony Collapse Disorder of the Honey Bee, by Amy Shepherd, in Keeping Backyard Bees, May 11, 2016  
• NEW  Common Crop Chemical Leaves Bees Susceptible to Deadly Virus, in American Bee Journal Extra, January 17, 2017
• Common Insecticides are Riskier Than Thought to Predetory Insects, in Bee Culture Magazine, December 16, 2016
• Court Ignores Risk of Neonic Seed Coatings..., in Bee Culture Magazine, December 4, 2016
• Neonicotinoid Pesticides Foster Spider Mite Outbreaks, by Roxanne Lee, in Bee Culture Magazine, November 30, 2016
• Protecting Bees from Pesticides...Smartphone App, released by Oregon State University for farmers and beekeepers, in Bee Culture magazine, November 24, 2016
• Court Fails to Protect Bees and Beekeepers, in Bee Culture Magazine, November 24, 2016
• EPA Re-registers Sulfoxaflor for Crop Use..., in Bee Culture Magazine, October 27, 2016
• South Carolina County Inadvertently Kills Millions of Honey Bees, by Brenda Rindge, in Bee Culture, September 5, 2106
• World's Most Heavily Used Pesticide Set to Wipe Bees Off the Face of the Earth, by Julie Wilson, in Natural News, August 26, 2016
• Real-World Risk to Honeybees Low, by Timothy Lawrence and Alen Felsot, Washington State University,  August 6, 2016
• Jeff Harris: Honey Bee Deaths Predate Ag Chemicals, by Hembree Brandon, in Delta Farm Press, July 26, 2016
• Pesticides Reduce Male Honeybee Fertility: Study, by Ashly P. Taylor inThe Scientist,  July 27, 2016
• Neonicotinoid Insecticides Can Serve as Inadvertent Insect Contraceptives in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences), July 27, 2016
•  Organic-approved Pesticides Minimizing Risks to Bees, by Eric Mader and Nancy Lee Adamson posted by the Xerces Society, 2012
•  Major Pest Control Company Announces A Huge Change To Protect Bees, by Chris DiAngelo in The Huffington Post, April 12, 2016
  
•  Chlorpyrifos Hampers Honeybee Learning and Memory - Honeybees suffer severe learning and memory deficits after ingesting very small doses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, research by Elodie Urlacher, March 2016 
•  Bayer Revises Position to Propose Extra Protections for Bees from Pesticides, January 12, 2016 - Bayer Concurs with EPA Findings on Certain Neonicotinoid Hazards to Honey Bees
•  EPA Confirms Activists' Longtime Claims: Neonicotinoid Pesticide Threatens Honeybees - Mike Ludwig, Truthout, January 6, 2016
• Program Designed to Prevent Bee Colonies From Accidental Pesticide Exposure - Growing Produce, May 5, 2015 - Farmers and beekeepers communicating about pesticides to prevent harming bees
• Bees 'Prefer' Neonicotinoid-Laced Nectar - Michael Gross, Chemistry World, April 22, 2015
• Study Finds Imidacloprid Safe for Honey Bees at Realistic Exposure Levels - Entomology Today, March 19, 2015
• EPA Says it is Unlikey to Approve New Neonicoinoid Outdoor Uses - EPA has required new bee safety studies for neonicotinoid pesticides
• Buzz Kill - Patrick J. Kiger, Sierra Club, March/April 2015 - As corn yields rise, bees are dying worldwide
• Neonics: Not the Only Culprit for Honey Bee Decline - University of Maryland via AgFax.com, March 19, 2015
• Bee Deaths Reversal: As Evidence Points Away from Neonics, Pressure Builds to Rethink Ban - Jon Entine, Forbes, February 5, 2014
• Monsanto Loses GMO Permit in Mexico, Judge Sides with the Bees - Collective Evolution, August 27, 2014 
• A World Without Neonics - Seed World, September 2014
• There is More at Stake that a Pollinator Health Plan - We Grow for the World, December 24, 2014
• Spokane City Council, Honeybee Poisons Banned - Spokesman Review, City Section, June 24, 2014
• Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees - Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural Sciences, 2014
• Neonicotinoids Barely Found in Pollen of Seed-Treated Plants - Entomology Today, February 6, 2014
• Bee Deaths: EU to Ban Neonicotinoid Pesticides - BBC News Europe, April 29, 2013
• Neonicotinoids in bees: a review on concentrations, side-effects and risk assessment  - in Springer.com Exotoxicology, February 18, 2012
• Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees - Xerces Society, 2012
• 3 New Studies Link Bee Decline to Bayer Pesticide - Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, March 29, 2012
• Are Pesticides Behind Massive Bee Die-Offs? - Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, January 10, 2012
• Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse - Wired Science, March 29, 2012
• Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm - Natural Society Newsletter, April 19, 2012
• How the Honey Bee Tolerates Some Synthetic Pesticides - Science Daily, July 7, 2011, from a study from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
• Approved Washington State Pesticides - Pesticides approved in Washington State to control of suppress tracheal mites and/or varroa mites in honey bee colonies

HONEY BEES AND FLOWERS

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• Cross Pollinated Radishes Are Good to Eat and Honey Bees Love the Flowers, by Ray Mueller, in Bee Culture, October 9, 2016
• Steady Supply of Blooms Makes Garden a Bee Haven, by Pat Munts, Spokesman Review, April 21, 2016.  Recommendations for flowers to plant in our area for season long bee food
• 20 Beautiful Flowers to Attract Bees to Your Garden, by Sierra Bright,Natural Living Ideas, January 21, 2016 
• Let Dandelions Grow. Bees, beetles and birds need them: The Guardian, 12 May 2015

HONEY AND OTHER BEE PRODUCTS

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•  NEW  Good Food Awards in 2017 in the Honey Category, in Bee Culture Magazine, February 7, 2017
• Honey - Good For You, Good to Eat, Good for Your Skin... in Bee Culture Magazine, January 17, 2017
• FDA Finds Monsanto's Weed Killer in U.S. Honey, by Carey Gillam, in Huffington Post, September 15, 2016
• Canadian Honey Council Blames Transshipped Chinese Honey for Destroying Honey Market, by Alan Harman, in Bee Culture Magazine, July 23, 2016
• HSI Chicago Seizes Nearly 60 Tons of Honey Illegally Imported from China, Again!!! in Bee Culture Magazine, July 1, 2016
• A Taste of Honey, by Eric R. Trinidad, in Subaru Drive, Summer 2016
• U.S. Per Capita Consumption of Honey Drops 3%,  in Bee Cluture: the Magazine of American Beekeeping, March 31, 2016
• Fraudulent Honey, by Alan Harman in Bee Culture: the Magazine of American Beekeeping, March 30, 2016
• How is Honey Made? Honeypedia. All about honey, 2016
• Honey Bee Colonies on the Rise! - USDA Annual Honey Report, March 27, 2015
• National Honey Report - U.S. Department of Agriculture Report
• Federal State Standard of Identity for  Honey Updated - Washington State Beekeepers Association

ESSENTIAL OILS

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•  Using Essential Oils for Honeybees, by Julia Miller, in Mother Earth News, March 25, 2014 
• Feeding Essential Oils and 2-Heptanone in Sugar Syrup and Liquid Protein Diets to Honey bBees (Apis mellifera L.) as Potential Varroa Mite (Varroa destructor) Controls - U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2009
• Acute Toxicity of Essential Oils and Other Natural Compounds to the Parasitic Mite, Varroa Destructor, and to Larval and Adult Worker Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) - Journal of Apicultural Research, August 2009
• Oral Toxicity of Essential Oils and Organic Acids Fed to Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) - Journal of Apicultural Research, Janury 2007
• Mite Control in Honey Bee Hives with Essential Oils & Formic Acid Fumigation , revised web site  May 2006        
• Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils and Other Plant Extracts, in Journal of Applied Microbiology, 1999
• Essential Oils, in Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology,  January 14, 2011

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR BEEKEEPING

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• Local Ordinances in the Spokane Area - Document summarizing local beekeeping ordinances
• City of Spokane Municipal Beekeeping Code

NSF FOOD SAFE EQUIPMENT

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• NFS International Website
  

HIVE TRACKS INSPECTION TEMPLATE

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• Inspection Template