honeyIt’s been a banner year for GloryBee’s SAVE the BEE® social initiative all culminating with a $90k donation to Oregon State University Honey Bee Lab on Friday, April 20. SAVE...
World Water Day 2018
March 22nd is the United Nations World Water Day. By early spring here in Oregon we tend to feel like water is abundant, especially the type that falls from the...
Propolis: Nature’s Warrior
Most likely you are familiar with products from the hive such as honey, bee pollen, and royal jelly. Another amazing product from the hive that you may not know much...
Honey Bees are attracted to Agricultural Fungicides
Most people have heard that honey bee populations are struggling--and the affects that neonicotinoid pesticides are having on honey bee health are gradually becoming main-stream knowledge. Interestingly, what is coming...
The one-two punch that could knock out the world’s bees.
We need bees. With 80% of food crops relying on honey bees for pollination, it has been found that one of every three bites of food we eat is pollinated...
Beekeeping Resolutions for The New Year
A new year means a new beginning. It’s a time to evaluate where we are in life and to make goals to get to where we want to be in...
GloryBee visits OSU’s PolliNation Podcast to talk about Bees
Early in November 2017, GloryBee’s president and life-long beekeeper, Alan Turanski, met with members of Oregon State University’s Department of Horticulture and talked about their Pollinator Health Research and Extension...
The Science of Giving
“For it is in giving that we receive.” –St. Francis of Assisi We all know the sayings about how it’s better to give than receive-and in our hearts we know...
Are Your Bees Right or Left Handed?
Bees don’t have “hands” but new research coming out of Australia has found that individual bees are prone to their left or right side. Here’s what the New York Post...
Oxalic Shop Towel Mite Treatment Method?
Like it or not, the varroa mite is here to stay and if your honey bees don’t have mites now, it’s only a matter of time before they become infested....
For bees, Fat is where it’s at
By Dewey Caron, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware. OSU Affiliate Professor. Internationally known Researcher, Educator and Entomologist. Author of Honeybee Biology and Beekeeping.) In September bee colonies rear the bees...
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Honey
When most people think of honey, they think of traditional golden sweet honey. But wait a minute!--not all honey is golden. Nor is all honey sweet. Did you know, some...
How a Solar Eclipse Affects Your Bees
If you are anywhere in the United States today, August 21, 2017, you will be able to see the moon block out a portion of the sun—and if you’re in...