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NAL Volume 149 No. 3

March 2009

ontents Editor-Joe M. Graham

Foolproof Requeening —227

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Speech on International Honey Market to Honey Producers Convention Jan. 8, 2009 Ronald P. Phipps Easy, Easy Colony Record Keeping T'Lee Sollenberger Small Broodnest Management Roy Hendrickson Foolproof Requeening Buddy Marterre The Bee Convention Circuit Randy Oliver The Seasons of Beekeeping Jerry Freeman What's New in Beekeeping: Part One—Honey Bee Immunity Peter L. Borst Next Up, The Survivors—Part One of Two Parts M.E.A. McNeil Sioux Honey Association—It's a Sweet Cooperative Cecil Hicks Road Trip through Europe: Processing and Packing Honey in Denmark Kirsten Traynor Importance of Recordkeeping to Tax Return Preparation and Business Success Sylvia A. Ezenwa Italian Government Issues Precautionary Ban on Neonicotinoids Franco Mutinelli, Anna Gloria Sabatini, Mario Astuti and Claudio Porrini Impressions From the Caribbean Beekeeping Congress Jim and Patricia Haskell The Importance of an Observation Hive Howard Scott

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Jt'ó a Sweet Ca&pexatJuie

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Letters to the

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Editor

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Newsnotes

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The World 262

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Honey Market

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f * ) ^ Classified Advertising

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Advertising Index

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Columns The Classroom » .

Jerry Hayes The Traveling Beekeeper Larry Connor

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March Cover Picture Roby Baer of Redding, California painted this beautifül scene of colonies in an almond orchard.

She has titled it "Crop Dusters". Please turn to page 185 for details on ordering this and other wonderful honey bee and wildlife pnnts from Roby's Fine Art and Prints, www.robys.com.

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Honey Bee Biology Wyatt A. Mangum The Other Side of Beekeeping George S. Ayers

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