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How to Care for Bees beekeeping 101

How do you care for bees? Let's break down the role of the beekeeper into 8, easy to follow parts so that you know how to take care of your...

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Is An Upper Entrance On A Beehive Bad for Bees Over Winter? beekeeping beekeeping 101

A very important part to helping your honey bees survive cold, winter weather (also called overwintering a beehive) is making sure there is...

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How to Split a Beehive Step-by-step Process (Simplified for the Hobby Beekeeper) beekeeping 101

Splitting a beehive is when the beekeeper takes some brood (the baby bees) and honey from a beehive and puts them into an empty beehive in...

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What to Do When You See Queen Cells In a Beehive beekeeping 101 beekeeping videos

It can be scary when you open your hive and see queen cells. Are they going to swarm? Did they swarm already? Is the queen dead? These are usually...

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Why Did My Bees Died Over Winter? Conducting A Hive Autopsy beekeeping 101 beekeeping videos

The hardest part of beekeeping is handling the death of a hive, but when a hive perishes, the beekeeper has to put aside their emotions...

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When & How to Add a Box to Your Beehive beekeeping 101 beekeeping equipment beekeeping videos getting started keeping bees

The beehive starts off small in the spring. Maybe there's a few thousands bees and a queen inside, but over the course of weeks and months, the...

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Beehive Inspection Sheet - FREE Download beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips getting started keeping bees how to become a beekeeper

So you got your bees. Hooray! Now what???? My first year as a beekeeper was a confusing one. I took a class and read a lot of books, but there...

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How to Read a Frame of Bees beekeeping 101

You open a beehive, look around, and then what? What exactly are the bees doing and how can you tell the difference between honey, baby bees and...

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Queenspotting Made Easy. Tips & Tricks to Spotting the Queen Bee. beekeeping 101
My first year keeping bees, I saw the queen twice - the day I put her cage in the hive and the day I released her from the cage. That was it!...
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The Inner Cover. What's the Purpose & Do You Need One? beekeeping 101 beekeeping equipment how to become a beekeeper

 

Have you ever seen that board with a hole in the center at a beekeeping website and wondered what it was? Well, I'm here to kind of...

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Deep, Medium, Shallow. The Boxes of a Beehive Explained. beekeeping 101 beekeeping equipment beekeeping videos how to become a beekeeper

Brood boxes, supers, deeps, mediums, shallows – these are all names for the three different types of boxes or hive bodies you can use on...

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How to Use Apivar Strips and What To Do With Your Honey Supers beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips beekeeping videos managing pests

Apivar strips are quite possibly the easiest mite treatment you can get. They require no tools and there's only two things you have to do -...

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Why Every Beginner Beekeeper Should Start with a Langstroth Hive beekeeping 101 beekeeping equipment beekeeping videos how to become a beekeeper

There's a lot to learn when you're first getting started keeping bees. One thing you don't have to worry about is what kind of beehive you...

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A Guide to Seasonal Beekeeping Tasks. Free Chart to Download! beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips how to become a beekeeper

When you inspect a hive, you're usually checking the temper, space, activity, brood, and laying pattern. But there are additional duties...

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How to Make a Solar Wax Melter Out of a Cooler. No Tools Needed! beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips

There are different ways to make a solar wax melter. The way I did it is probably the easiest and the fastest way to make one. That's why I...

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Beekeeping in the Summer - Bearding, Robbing, Dearth & Hurricanes beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips beekeeping videos

Summer is a busy time for the bees. As a beekeeper, you may see the bees doing a variety of things that you're not used to - robbing, bearding,...

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How to Avoid Getting Stung, What to Do When You're Stung & Swelling Remedies beekeeping 101 beekeeping tips how to become a beekeeper

Many people love bees and understand their value, but as soon as one comes buzzing by, their heart races, their arms start flailing and...

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