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Many things affect the beekeeper in managing bees. Apiculture is labor intensive. As such the beekeeper must be in good physical shape in order to be an effective manager. Some of the health issues that traditionally affect beekeepers are back problems and diseases that might be contracted in the field.
Beekeeper sanitation; the other side of the hygienic
coin, June 2000.
Protecting your skin and skin cancer, January 2000.
Trade:
Issue of the new millenium, July 1999.
Determining
relative toxicity of pesticides (LD50), March 1999.
Focus
on bee research: what scientists and beekeepers want, March 1998
Queen
problems for consumers and producers, February 1998
Warm
winter woes: supplementary feeding, February 1998
The
future of extension apiculture, January 1998
The
changing face of the beekeeping shortcourse, October 1997
Beekeepers
are risk from Lyme disease, February 1992.
A
discussion of the changing role of the hobby beekeeper, December 1991.
A
report on use of pesticides by Georgia beekeepers, November 1991
Discussion
of stings and reactions, March 1991.
Discussion
of professionalism in agriculture and beekeeping, May 1990.
Discussion
of ethics and beekeepers, May 1989.
Discussion
of beekeeping on the pesticide treadmill, April 1989.
Discussion
of greed and pesticide use, May 1988.
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