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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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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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Easy Way to Get Bees Out of a Honey Super Using Bitter Almond Oil. No Fume Board Needed! beekeeping tips beekeeping videos honey harvesting

There are lots of tricks the beekeeper has to saving time. This is one of my favorites. When I worked for an apiary with 4,000 hives, it was run by...

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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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10 Tips When Harvesting Honey from the Flow Hive beekeeping tips beekeeping videos honey harvesting

When you watch the Flow Hive video, everything looks perfect. The honey flows right into the jar. No bees fly into the honey. The honey doesn't go...

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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 Turn Old, Dark Honeycomb Into Clean, Yellow Beeswax beekeeping tips beekeeping videos

When bees secrete beeswax, it's white. As bees walk over the comb and fill it up with nectar and pollen, the wax turns various shades of...

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