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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...
A very important part to helping your honey bees survive cold, winter weather (also called overwintering a beehive) is making sure there is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
Brood boxes, supers, deeps, mediums, shallows – these are all names for the three different types of boxes or hive bodies you can use on...
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 -...
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...
When you inspect a hive, you're usually checking the temper, space, activity, brood, and laying pattern. But there are additional duties...
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...
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,...
Many people love bees and understand their value, but as soon as one comes buzzing by, their heart races, their arms start flailing and...