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My articles constitute a journal of my own learning experience in the science of beekeeping, and should be considered in that context. I make an effort to add important updates to articles on this site, but it may help the reader to see the chronology of publication, so that one can read the most up to date articles first.

Article Title	Publication Date
California Dreaming vs. Calif Reality: Part 1	October 1, 2006
California Dreaming vs. Calif Reality: Part 2	November 1, 2006
2007 Almond Pollination Season	December 1, 2006
Fighting Varroa – The Silver Bullet or Brass Knuckles?
Oxalic Acid: Part 1

Fighting Varroa – Choosing Your Troops	January 1, 2007
Oxalic Acid: Part 2 – Heat Vaporization	January 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – Strategy and Tactics	February 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – Reconnaissance	March 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – Biotechnical 1	April 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – Biotechnical 2	May 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – The Arsenal Chemical Weapons	June 1, 2007 July 1, 2007
	June 1, 2007 July 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – The Arsenal Natural Treatments: Part 1	August 1, 2007
Fat Bees: Part 1	August 1, 2007
Fighting Varroa – The Arsenal Natural Treatments: Part 2	September 1, 2007
Fat Bees: Part 2	September 1, 2007
Almond Pollination 2008	October 1, 2007
Fat Bees: Part 3	November 1, 2007
Fat Bees: Part 4	December 1, 2007
The Nosema Twins: Part 1	December 1, 2007

The Nosema Twins: Part 2 – Detection & Microscopy	January 1, 2008
The Nosema Twins: Part 3 – Detection	February 1, 2008
The Nosema Twins: Part 4 – Treatment	March 1, 2008
The Nosema Twins: Part 5 – Alternative Treatments	April 1, 2008
A Trial of Honey Super Cell Small Cell Combs	May 1, 2008
Old Bees, Cold Bees, No Bees?: Part 1	June 1, 2008
Old Bees, Cold Bees, No Bees?: Part 2	July 1, 2008
The Suckabee	August 1, 2008
A California Beekeeper Reports from Down Under	September 1, 2008
A Test of the Drench Method for Nosema	October 1, 2008
Additional Reports and Ramblings
Field of View Count Correlation
Field Trial of Several Nosema Treatments
2009 Almond Pollination Outlook	November 1, 2008
Powdered Sugar Dusting: Part 1	December 1, 2008

Powdered Sugar Dusting: Part 2	January 1, 2009
Nosema cerenae – not your father’s nosema!	January 1, 2009
Powdered Sugar Dusting: Part 3	February 1, 2009
The Bee Convention Circuit 2009	March 1, 2009
The Learning Curve 2009: Part 1	April 1, 2009
Protocol for Rapid Preparation of Nosema Spore Samples	April 1, 2009
The Learning Curve 2009: Part 2	May 1, 2009
Too overwhelmed running my operation to write an article!	June 1, 2009
The Learning Curve 2009: Part 3	July 1, 2009
Nosema ceranae – Kiss of Death or Much Ado About Nothing?	August 1, 2009
The Learning Curve 2009: Part 4 – Synthetic Miticides	September 1, 2009
A California Beekeeper Returns from Down Under	October 1, 2009
The Learning Curve – The Future	November 1, 2009
The Future – Pesticides and Fungicides	December 1, 2009

The Economy of the Hive: Part 1	January 1, 2010
The Economy of the Hive: Part 2	February 1, 2010
An Adaptable Workforce	March 1, 2010
The Primer Pheromones, Managing Labor Pool: 1	April 1, 2010
The Primer Pheromones, Managing Labor Pool: 2	May 1, 2010
The Primer Pheromones, Managing Labor Pool: 3	June 1, 2010
A Test of Using Synthetic Pheromones	July 1, 2010
Pollen Supplement Formula	July 1, 2010
Sick Bees: Part 1	August 1, 2010
Sick Bees: Part 2 – A Model of Colony Collapse	September 1, 2010
Sick Bees: Part 3 – The Bee Immune System	October 1, 2010
Sick Bees: Part 4 – Immune Response to Viruses	November 1, 2010
Sick Bees: Bromenshank	December 1, 2010

Sick Bees: Part 5 – Multiple Infections	January 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 6 – Infection by Multiple Viruses	February 1, 2011
Miticides 2011	February 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 7 – Transgenerational Immune Priming	March 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 8 – Time for a Paradigm Shift	April 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 9 – Pathogens and Plagues	May and June, 2011

The Rules for Successful Beekeeping	July 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 11 – Parasite Monitoring	August 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 12 – Getting Down to the Brass Tacks	September 1, 2011
An Early Summer Test of Mite-Away Quick Strips™	September 1, 2011
The Rules Redux	October 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 13 – Simple Microscopy of Nosema for Beekeepers	November 1, 2011
Sick Bees: Part 14 – An Update on the “Nosema Cousins”	December 1, 2011

Sick Bees: Part 15 – An Improved Method for Nosema Sampling	January 1, 2012
Sick Bees: Part 16 – The “Quick Squash” Method “Fried Eggs” Identified	February 1, 2012
Sick Bees: Part 17A: Nosema – The Smoldering Epidemic	March 1, 2012
2012 Almond Pollination Update Sick Bees: Part 17b–Nosema ceranae	April 1, 2012
Pesticide Incident Reporting	May, 1, 2012
Sick Bees Part 18A: Colony Collapse Revisited	May, 1, 2012
Sick Bees Part 18b: Colony Collapse Revisited	June 1, 2012
The Extinction of the Honey Bee?	July 1, 2012
Testing of Bee Feed Syrups for Neonicotinoid Residues	August, 2012
Neonicotinoids: Trying To Make Sense of the Science	August, 2012
Neonicotinoids: Trying To Make Sense of the Science – Part 2	September, 2012
A New Large-Scale Trial of Clothianidin	September, 2012
Sick Bees 18c–Colony Collapse revisited; Environmental Factors	October 2012
Nosema ceranae and Honey Production in Healthy Colonies	November 2012
Sick Bees 18d–Colony Collapse Revisited: Agricultural Exposure	November 2012
Sick Bees 18e collapse revisited GMOs	December 2012
Nosema Ceranae and Honey Production in Healthy Colonies	December 2012

Sick Bees Part 18F: Colony Collapse Revisited–Pesticide kills	January 2013

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