According to a 2015-16 U.S. Agriculture Department-funded survey, beekeepers in the United States lost a recorded 44 percent of their honeybee colonies, with many placing the blame on the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), itself likely caused by other factors—pesticides, habitat loss, pathogens, parasites, or malnutrition. CCD, which results when almost all of…
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Ready to really test your baking skills? Then, you need to try out this recipe for Russian Manuka honey layer cake! The steps are many, and the challenge great, but the reward will be unlike anything you’ve accomplished previously as a baker—and it will be amazingly delicious to boot. So, let’s get started! Ingredients for…
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For anyone who both has children and loves dogs, there’s likely always a question brewing about the breed that would be perfect for your family. No one answer exists, and any dog can theoretically be great with kids. You can continually speculate about the right dog breed, but, like every human being, individual dogs are…
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Based on several recent experiments, there is a strong possibility that honeybees are drawn to the same chemicals that could mean their downfall, with the experiments themselves featuring bees that preferred water mixed with the chemicals and not just sugar. These findings, which were published recently in Scientific Reports, indicate that popular fungicides and herbicides…
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Dogs are typically tolerant of human behavior due to their easygoing and loyal nature, but there might be several things you’re doing that your dogs secretly hate. Some of them are obvious, such as when it’s bath time or when they don’t get their way (leading to sulking), but it can be much subtler than…
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For relatively new beekeepers, there is likely nothing more frustrating than coming up to check your hives, only to find that half of them have vacated the hive entirely. Fortunately, this is not a case of colony collapse disorder, which results in all of a hive’s worker bees suddenly disappearing. More than likely, the missing…
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While most people consider retiring once they hit their 60s, Steve and Joyce and Thorson chose to reinvent their lives and with gusto. Canners, gardeners, and occasionally cattle owners, the Thorson’s live outside of Manhattan, Montana, with Steve owning several construction companies and Joyce previously working as a TSA agent with Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.…
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If you are looking for a dessert recipe to try out—and you also just happen to love eating a lot of chewy cookies after a long day at work—then you have got to try out these Portuguese cinnamon Manuka honey cookies! Not only will these cookies provide you with the perfect opportunity to dunk your…
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