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The article offers the insights of various individuals concerning bee production in the U.S. which include Nigel Payne, Philip McCabe, and Mike Thornley.

The article discusses issues related to beekeeping. It mentions the 2011 annual conference of Prevention of Honey Bee COlony LOSSes (COLOSS) in Turkey, wherein topics related to Nosema species such as control of Nosema ceranae by fungicide fumagillin were discussed. It also cites strategies for beekeepers when bees start to swarm in the next three months following June in the Northern Hemisphere.

The article discusses some strategies and tips on comb honey beekeeping. It highlights some good practices on bee culture including to reduce the colony to single story when the main honey flow is about to begin, find and enclose the queen bee and remove finished supers. It offers information on swarm control, equipment assembly and comb-baiting. It also suggests several books which offer techniques and guidelines on bee farming.

The article focuses on the production of heather honey in Great Britain. It states that the Erica species provide Scottish beekeepers with a pleasing run honey, and the best heather moors are the well managed grouse moors, where the old ling is burnt on a regular basis to encourage the new growth. It describes the arrangement of hives, the preparation of supers, the use of swarms for heather colonies, and the ways for successful over-wintering of bee colonies.

The article offers tips for beekeepers on how to take advantage of the swarming season. Beekeepers are advised to hive the swarm on the foundation to encourage comb production and to replace the old comb in another hive. They are also requested to keep the swarm and let it become an established colony in preparation for the spring and summer months.

The article offers information on the roles and activities of bees in a honeybee colony. It highlights the importance of a queen in a colony for colony reproduction through swarming. It explores the behaviour of the queen in the time of swarming. It also indicates the distinction between swarming and supersedure.

The article offers author's insights regarding management of top bar hive (TBH) in Canada. Topics discussed by the author include various aspects of its design including are, walls, and roof, stocking of bees in the hive, and several manipulations made for swarming. Also mentions the performance of its developed honey comb.

The article presents the author's insights of having a problem with swarming in the end of September 2013 in Australia. The author says that the wet autumn meant that beekeepers got almost no re-queening done and the blueberries started early. He states that he just keeps up hs time with supering and checking buttoms. He adds that he had lost couple of swarms on the berries.

In this article, the author presents his views on the process of capturing honey bee swarms with bait hives. He states that captured honey bee swarms may simply be used by a hobby beekeeper for increasing colony numbers. He also recommends for designing bait hives and also offers tips for building bait hives. According to the author, bait hives should be properly built and positioned in order to get a good yield of swarms of bees.

The article presents the author's views over the artificial swarms of the honey bees. The author suggests that in this method the old queen should be kept in the brood box without any brood allowing the queen to start laying on her own combs. The author further informs about his experiences of making artificial swarms in which he succeeded. The author further discusses the methods of driving the queen back into the brood box including the deployment of fume pad in the brood box.

The article offers information on the Warré hive used by beekeepers for alternative beekeeping in France. It mentions that Warré hive is the smallest hive in the category of divisible hive with a group of identical boxes stacked one above the other which can be used for feeding sugar syrup or honey. It says that swarming needs to be prevented for proper management of the colony of bees and to maintain its behavior for good harvest.

The article reports on the effective swarm traps of honeybees. It says that the swarm traps prevents the queen from escaping with the swarm and prevents her from getting back into the hive. It also says that the effective trap is made in cedar and the queen excluder parts are in stainless steel. In addition, swarm trap instructions is also presented.

The article presents the author's insights on beekeeping in West Brittany, France during summer. The author says that in June 2013, his colonies were managed in brood bodies, a queen excluder, and on one side a comb of two with rape honey stores. He states that during first week of July, swarming was high and as the weather us very hot, the bees were in search of shaded place. He adds that around his barn he collected seven swarms in Dadant ten-frame-sized brood boxes.

The article presents the author's insights on effect of Spring in her trees, such as Robinia trees and chestnut trees, and artificial swarms.

The article presents information on a study on the honey bee Apis cerana conducted by professor Willard Robinson, which was published in the "Journal of Apicultural Research," in which the bees were found to make swarming flights to effectively rid themselves of attacking hornets.

The article presents the author's insights on bee swarm control. He cites the determination of their local beekeeping association treasurer to urge the association to adopt one of the presented bee swarming behavior control proposal every year and enforce and teach it to members. However, he argues that bee swarming control requires a combination of methods, in which he cites several ways from different sources like the books "Principles of Practical Beekeeping" and "Beekeeping Craft and Hobby."

The article offers the author's insights on his experience of collecting and hiving swarms.

The article offers the author's insight regarding his journey to Royal Easter Show in Sydney, New South Wales, where he has conducted an inspection of bees. He discusses the weather conditions affecting the production of honey such as excessive rain and drought. He states that the rise of Apis cerana species continue to be a problem in Queensland and efforts to eradicate them appeared to be unsuccessful. He adds that their swarm prevention in the autumn season begins with requeening.

The article offers the author's insights on his failure to achieve one piece of comb honey from his bees in 2010 due to weather conditions in the Netherlands as well as the start of swarm preparations for the 2011 spring.

The article presents the author's insights on bee culture in England. He says that bee swarming will begin early in 2011 due to the early onset of warm temperature and just in time for the rape plants to flower, but cites the problem it can cause the beekeeper like complaints from neighbors. Furthermore, he offers some tips on reducing the swarming behavior of bees like identifying the hive with high levels of activity at the entrance and applying Wilson's method.

A letter to the editor is presented which talk about the strange sight of the rape fields in which bees colony is seen in a full bloom through a snowstorm in Dorset, England.

The article focuses on the European Foul Brood, a honeybee disease. It says that the European Foul Brood (EFB) neither invades the larval tissues nor does it produce a toxin or poison. Further, it gets swallowed by the larva and lives in the larval gut. In addition, the harm done to the larva infected with EFB depends on two factors; when the infection takes place and how much there is of it.

A letter to the editor is presented related to bee farming, which appeared in the previous issue is presented.