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January 1999

• Raising the Bar on Pesticide Use: Coumaphos Approved in Florida
• Stewardship: Making the Most out of Limited Resources
• Gaucho® Loses its Label in France: Mad Bee Disease Also Affects Bumblebees
• Honey and Grapefruit: Sweet and Healthy
• Florida Bee Meetings:

February 1999

• Managing Varroa Resistance to Pesticides: Not if but when

March 1999

• The Tao of Smoking Bees:
• Apimondia in Vancouver:
• Determining Varroa Population Levels:
• Measuring Relative Toxicity – The LD₅₀ Level
• Supplemental Protein Feeding:

April 1999

• Yearly Honey Production: Historical Analysis
• Marketing Changes: What the Future May Hold
• Transgenic Plants and Bees: Further Implications
• Honey Loan Program Re-authorized:
• Brazilian Honey Shortage:

May 1999

• African Honey Bee Surprises Again:
• The Nemesis Effect: Are More Surprises Due?

June 1999

• Small Hive Beetle Update:
• Sanitation in the Honey House: Importance to the Food Manufacturer
• More on Protein Feeding (Management):
• Varroa Control: Bottom Boards and Breeding

July 1999

• The "old" Beekeeping Literature: Overreliance on the New
• Y2K: Implications for Beekeeping
• Trade: The Issue of the New Millennium
• British Bee Journal: End of an Era
• The value of Drones: The Male Bee Will Out

August 1999

• More On Open Mesh Floors For Varroa Control
• Worker Protection Standard; Not Mandatory, But Cannot Be Ignored
• Update on Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) in South Texas: Where Will The Population Go?

September 1999

• Apimondia '99 in Canada:
• Varroa Mites - A Five-Species Complex?
• Varroa: A Twelve-Year Review
• Bee Nutrition: What We Don't Know
• Florida State Beekeepers Meet in Haines City
• Honey Bee Technical Council and AHB Task Force Meet
• Florida's Bee Inspection Program on the Web

October 1999

• Small Hive Beetle Control: Coumaphos Label to Expire
• American Foulbrood on the Rise:
• Economic Adulteration Survey:
• Consolidation, Diversification and Research: Staying Competitive
• 1999 Pacific Northwest Honey Bee Pollination Survey:
• Heifer Project Offers Unique Christmas Present: Bees

November 1999

• More on American Foulbrood: Changes, Historical Perspective and Management Strategies
• Honey: Is It Special Enough?
• El Niño or La Niña?
• The Varroa-Virus Connection:
• Pollinators Pamphlet: Honey Bees And Alternative Pollinators
• Y2K 4-H Essay Contest: Humans and Honey Bees Through the Centuries

December 1999

• Taking Stock in 1999:
• Stock Importation: A Possibility At Last?
• Varroa-Tolerant Honey Bees:
• Threatened Bears in Europe and Florida:
• Bee Meetings:

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