Liz Kuhn
From the Hive to Your Table
There is more that goes into to your jar of honey than you think. At the beginning of October, the CU Denver Bee Project went through the...
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Alix Bakke
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Pollen Nutrition
Pollen provides essential nutrients for a honey bee colony. To ensure these nutrients are available, honey bees will collect roughly 57...
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Alix Bakke
Jul 17, 20203 min read
Honey Tasting
Seeing honey sticks while standing at a grocer’s checkout line always makes my day a bit better. These natural sweet snacks display the...
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Alix Bakke
May 21, 20203 min read
Meliponini in Maya Tradition
Stingless bees (Meliponini) have been ecologically, economically, and culturally important throughout the Western Hemisphere {1}. For...
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Melissa Allen
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Habitat for Bees: Native and Ornamental Plants
From left to right: Bee on Stinking Chamomile, Fleabane, Colorado Columbine, Field of ornamental flowers Spring is around the corner, and...
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Peter Zerbe
Apr 17, 20204 min read
Bumble Bee Ecology
Carl Linnaeus first described six species of the Bombus genus in 1758 and these beautiful creatures have captivated our attention ever...
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Alix Bakke
Apr 14, 20203 min read
The Life of a Honey Bee
Ever wonder what it’s like to live as a honey bee? For me, I imagined it as time spent snacking on homemade honey (even if it means to...
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Hillary Hillam
Aug 29, 20192 min read
Xerces Society - A Pollinators Friend
Hello all, I have been on an extensive research session studying so much over the last couple of weeks that I am on a brain overload. I...
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Hillary Hillam
Jul 14, 20193 min read
Questions at the beginning
At the beginning of this journey I have a lot of questions. What are native plants to the Front Range of Colorado and what are the native...
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Hillary Hillam
Jun 21, 20192 min read
Oh bees, I have loved you so!
My whole life I have loved to watch bees. I remember watching PBS as a kid and learning about the honey bee waggle dance and bee...
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Hillary Hillam
May 25, 20191 min read
Bees are off to a new beekeeper!
Today we sold our first set of bees! Our hives have been doing great and we have had to slit several of them. We only lost about 20% of...
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Hillary Hillam
May 14, 20191 min read
Swarms, Swarms, Swarms
Dr. B has been fighting to keep up with the swarms from our bursting hives. Over the last week she has had a swarm a day. This is swarm...
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