Treatment/Nontreatment Bomb vs. Bond -Varroa Volume 156 No. 10 Advertising Manager-Marta Menn Editor-Joe M. Graham Publishing Department-Dianne Behnke & Susan Nichols Minnesota’s Homestead Apiaries — 1149 ● International Honey Market C ontents October 2016 Email info@americanbeejournal.com Web www.americanbeejournal.com — 1137 Ron Phipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091 ● Understanding Colony Buildup and Decline—Part 13d—The Impact of Parasites Randy Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113 ● Varroa Mite Monitoring—Using a Sugar Roll to Identify Populations A rticles of Varroa destructor in Honey Bee Colonies Meghan Milbrath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119 Generating Income with Honey Bees — 1103 ● Bomb vs Bond—Varroa Treatment/Nontreatment: The Twain Do Meet, and Let Us Count the Ways -Part I M.E.A. McNeil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137 ● Minnesota’s Homestead Apiaries Bottle and Sell Half of Their Own Honey Crop Mary and Bill Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149 ● Novices Can Do Well Too Howard Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157 ● Brother Adam: A Memorial Lecture Jim Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161 ● Peter Molan: The Research Giant Who Brought Us Medical-grade Manuka Kirsten Traynor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165 The Classroom Jerry Hayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099 Field Guide to Beekeeping Jamie Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103 Beekeeping Topics -Examining the Reasons for Colony Losses Ray Nabors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129 Columns Honey Bee Biology Wyatt A. Mangum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133 For the Love of Bees and Beekeeping Keith Delaplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145 The Other Side of Beekeeping George S. Ayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169 October Cover Picture This is a painting of the original Homestead Honey Company’s apiary painted by Corey Behlke’s Dad’s cousin, Dave Behlke. The painting served as an inspi-ration for Homestead Honey’s neck tags used on many of their honey containers. Read the Homestead Apiaries story by Mary and Bill Weaver starting on page 1149. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL (ISSN 002-7626) is published monthly at American Bee Journal, 51 S. 2nd Street, Hamilton, IL 62341. Periodicals Postage Paid at Hamilton, IL and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to American Bee Journal, 51 S. 2nd Street, Hamilton, IL 62341. In the United States , $28.00 a year; two years, $53.00 and three years, $75.00. Canada $45.00 a year; two years $88.00. Foreign $52.00 a year; two years $99.00. Subscriptions stop at expiration date printed on label. Available in microfilm form at moderate prices by writ -The American Bee Journal ISSN 0002-7626 October 2016 D epartments ● 100% Overwintering Success in Ohio Tom and Fran Davidson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125 Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 1073 Newsnotes . . . . . . 1077 U .S . Honey Crops and Markets . . . . . 1087 Classified Advertising . . . . . . 1175 Advertising Index . . . . . . . . . . . 1178 ing to National Archive Publishing Co., 300 N. Zeeb Road, P.O. Box 998, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. 1-800-420-6272. ©Copyright Dadant & Sons, Inc., 2015. All rights reserved, printed in USA. The Publish-ers cannot guarantee advertisements in this magazine, but we ask that any advertising complaints be made known to us, so we can further check the company’s reliability. Opinions expressed in articles are not neces-sarily those of the publisher. American Bee Journal, 51 S. 2nd St., Hamilton, IL 62341. (217) 847-3324. Fax (217) 847-3660. 1067
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