Gear Up for Success: Essential Beekeeping Gear Guide

At Dadant, we know that the right tools and gear are not just additions to your beekeeping practice; they are essentials that define your experience and success. As the beekeeping season picks up, it's crucial to ensure you're fully equipped with the best protective gear and tools available. This guide is here to walk you through our top-of-the-line products, designed …

Bee Health Guru Smartphone App Promotes Kickstarter Fundraising Campaign

Bee Health Guru, a new smartphone app designed to help beekeepers diagnose conditions in their hives, is promoting a fundraiser to fine-tune development of its software. The Kickstarter campaign runs through the end of May. As Malcolm Sanford reports in the May issue of ABJ: “Bee Health Guru combines observations in the field using a phone’s microphone and an App running …

Online Tool Identifies Best and Safest Places to Keep Bees

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Honeybees play essential roles in pollinating plants that humans and animals rely on for food. Declines in bee populations - including 20 percent of honeybee colonies per year in Indiana - threaten our food supply. Insecticide exposure, loss of flowering plants, and fewer nesting habitats, disease and parasites are all factors. Beekeepers must, therefore, identify safe places …