Volume 149 No. 6
June 2009
Contents
Advertising Manager-Marta M e n n
Editor-Joe M . G r a h a m
Marketing Your Own Honey—563
Emai ABJ@dadant.com Web http://www.dadant.com
Publishing Department-Amy Leebold & Dianne Behnke
Higher Prices Pushed Valué for U.S. Honey Imports Up in 2008 John Parker
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Beekeeping for Beginners: Helpful Hints for Working Your Hive Kirsten Traynor
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The Bee Photography of Eric Tourneret—Part II of V: Cameroon M.E.A. McNeil
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Survivor Stock: A Protocol for Small-scale Beekeepers M.E.A. McNeil
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My Friend, the Wax Moth—Pondering the Purpose of a Seemingly Useless Pest Grant Gillard
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Marketing Your Own Honey—Part I of Two Parts Don Jackson
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Florida—Sun, Tourists, Beaches, Citrus Groves, Gators, and Bees Cecil Hicks
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Honey Bee Colony Mortality in the Pacific Northwest (USA) Winter 2007/2008 Michael Burgett, Randal Rucker and Walter Thurman Promiscuous DNA and Terramycin Resistance in American Foulbrood Bacteria K. Daniel Murray, Katherine A. Aronstein and Frank Eischen •
Letters to the Editor
517
Newsnotes
519
The World 573
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The Importance of Microbes in Nutrition and Health of Honey Bee Colonies—Part I of Three Parts Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Diana Sammataro and Rubén A l a r c o n . . . 583
@ Proceedings of the American Bee Research Conference
My Friend, The Wax Moth!—559
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Honey Market
525
Classified Advertising
597
Advertising ndex
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Col umns The Classroom Jerry Hayes Honey Bee Biology Wyatt A. Mangum
June Cover Picture Roby Baer painted this beautiful bccyard scene that she entitlcs "Beeline". She says, " I wanted to depict the beautiful rolling hills of sweet yellow clover and the hard-working beekeeper." For details on ordering this or other paintings from Roby's Fine Art and Prints, see her letter on page 517. SWWW3d089V A SVOI901018
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The Traveling Beekeeper Larry Connor The Other Side of Beekeeping George S. Ayers
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