History of the Apis Newsletter:

In February 1983, APIS-Apicultural Information and Issues evolved from Hum of the Hive, taking on a different format with an upgraded logo. The first electronic issue came out in February 1984 on BITNET. Since then, APIS has been available worldwide via the INTERNET and World Wide Web.  Parts of it have also been archived across the Web on different sites. In 1989, the author published issues from Italy, in 1992, from Egypt, and a special collection of letters from France in 1997.

In 1994, the story of APIS was featured in the FARNET publication, 51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What it Says About the Information Superhighway, the lobbying document used to educate the U.S. Congress about the value of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). This formally recognized the newsletter as a pioneer on the Internet, the first information organ of its kind available on World Wide Web. The Apis Newsletter continues to be published monthly via discussion list at Yahoo.com and now this ezine, and includes a monthly summary (gleanings) from the content of each month's Bee Culture magazine.