Providing Water for Bees
Master Beekeepers Reveal How to Provide Essential Water Sources for Bees – A Must for Every Beekeeper for Beekeeping Success and Hive Health.
Miscellaneous
Types of Honey Bees
Get to Know Your Bees: Exploring About Common Subspecies and their Unique Characteristics essential for successful beekeeping.
International, National and State Beekeeping Conferences
Do you want to find a beekeeping conference near you to attend? Our master list of state, regional, national and international meetings will help.
Cleaning, Rendering, and Filtering Beeswax
Turning burr comb, cappings or other types of bees wax into clean, filtered bees wax can be a hard to do for the beekeeper, let us show you how.
A Dozen Ways Beekeepers Make It Hard On Themselves
Beekeeping is tough even for the best beekeeper; I mean, these are tiny stinging insects that, for the most part, do what they want. You can do everything right when caring for bees, and it can still not go the way you want it to. We can help.
Live Bee Hive Scale and Sensor Data
Monitoring the weight, humidity, and temperature of a colony of bees is the modern way of checking on the colony and progress of a colony remotely. Here is the data we get from our system.
How to Combine Beehives
The stack of white boxes you see in your mind is a single bee hive. Sometimes these hives are very strong, and some are weak. Beekeepers may have a situation where one is a queenless hive and won’t survive much longer as is, so they will need to be combined with a stronger hive. It isn’t hard to combine hives, but you do need to understand what you are doing.
What is Robbing and What Beekeepers Should Know About Protecting Their Hive
What Is Robbing In Beekeeping? Robbing is when one colony is stealing honey or nectar from the syrup feeder or the inside of another colony. Looting is the best analogy of robbing behavior in a hive. One colony with excess forager bees without a natural food source will look for weak colonies to take advantage …
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Nectar Dearth: What Beekeepers Should Know
Nectar is a sweet liquid secreted by plants that bee colonies use as a food source. Nectar is produced in flowers to attract pollinators and to produce seeds. A nectar dearth or honey dearth occurs when bee colonies can no longer find sufficient amounts of nectar due to natural or artificial factors. This leads beekeepers …
What Is A Nectar Flow?
Honeybees are very industrious creatures. They work tirelessly to gather the nectar from a plethora of flowers, which they then convert into honey and store in their hives for safekeeping through the winter months when it may be scarce.