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A Honey Bee’s Best Friend: The Apiarist

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Do you wonder what makes a honey bee tick? We definitely do and decided to speak with someone that you might say is one of the honey bee’s best friends, Tim Schuler.

NJ State Apiarist Tim Schuler

NJ State Apiarist Tim Schuler

Tim is the State Apiarist with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture and also teaches the Bee-ginner’s Beekeeping Course at Rutgers University.

Got Honey?


Would you like to keep bees yourself but need to know more about Bee Keeping?

Tim Schuler tells us some of the best places to find information can be found here:

http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/beeinspection.html

http://njbeekeepers.org/

http://maarec.psu.edu/

Tim Schuler and his BEE-Bearded son

Listen here for our interview with Tim Schuler:

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  • Jay

    Great webpage. Learned much about honeybees.

  • admin

    Thanks for your comment Jay, glad you like the story.

  • Patty

    I forwarded this to so many of my friends and relatives! Honey bees are cool!

  • admin

    Thanks Patty, I’m glad you enjoyed the podcast – and you are so right, Honey bees are cool!

  • http://cheryls@cciu.org Cheryl (Cusato) Schoener

    Wow- this is very cool! YOu really know your stuff- always did like Biology and Science, didn’t you? Mr. Martin and Mr. Miller would be proud of you!
    I am sharing this w/ my co-worker who plans on doing this along w/ the Horticulture program he does w/ the kids.
    Do you ever hear from anyone from Interboro?
    How many children do you have? Your son is very brave!

    Take care,
    Cheryl

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