Volume 149 No. 5
May 2009
Contents A New Article Series for
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Editor-Joe M. Graham
Honey Market Update Ron Phipps Continuing Efforts to Safeguard U.S. Honey Imports — P a r t 2 o f T w o Parts Sylvia A. Ezenwa
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Beekeeping for Beginners: Simple Steps for Success Kirsten Traynor ASpecific Brood Comb Replacement Program Jack Coleman • The Bee Photography of Eric Tourneret—Part I of V: France M.E.A. McNeil What's New in Beekeeping—PartThree—Natural Beekeeping Peter L. Borst • Mechanical Varroa Control Roy Hendrickson • The Learning Curve—Part II Randy Oliver • A Practical Plan for Removing All Treatments From • Commercial Apiaries—Part II of Two Parts Kirk Webster
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Letters to the Editor
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Trucking Bees in Hot Weather Bob Harrison Beekeeping Stories from "The Land of Lincoln" Cecil Hicks
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Advertising
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Experimental Treatment of Nosema Disease with "Nozevit" Phyto-pharmacological Preparation Ivana Tlak Gajger, Zdravko Petrinec, Ljiljana Pinter, Zvonimir Kozaric
May Cover Picture Frcnch photojournalist Eric Tourneret has dedicated the last five years of his career to photographing one subject, bees. He has created an extraordinary and comprchensive collection of photos from across the globe over a five-year period. Here he captures beekeeper Claude Poireau shaking fresh sunflowcr néctar from a comb at his hives in a fíela o f sunflowcrs in the South o f France. A five-part photo cssay of Tourneret's bec photos begins in this issue.
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Col umns The Classroom Jerry Hayes Honey Bee Biology Wyatt A. Mangum
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