Queens
How and Why To Mark Your Queen Bee
Marking queens is a very helpful skill for beekeepers, and beekeepers of all skill levels can mark their queens with the right tools. There are
Queen Marking Colors
Beekeepers have been placing markings on honeybee queens for as long as queens have been raised. It may seem a bit strange to see it
Should You Use A Queen Excluder?
When, how and why to use a queen excluder is a common beginner beekeeper question and we can help you find out if a using
What Happens When A Queen Bee Dies?
When a queen bee dies inside a colony, it can be difficult for the colony. While the queen bee isn’t the leader of a colony,
How To Run A Queen Bank
Banking Queens at Foxhound Bee Company: Learn How We Store and Care for Queens in Our Beekeeping Practices for Beekeepers of All Levels.
What Is A Queen Cup?
So you have opened your hive up and you find all these things you don’t remember talking about in your beekeeping class. Right? That’s ok,
5 Tips to Keep your Package Bees from Leaving
It is pretty common for package bees to leave their brand new hive only days after being installed. It’s unfortunate, but this happens quite often
Requeening A Hive
Table of Contents When having to requeen the hive, it can be a stressful situation for both the worker bees and the beekeeper. Many things
Buying Queen Bees
Buying queens for your bees can be a little overwhelming, but as the beekeeper you have multiple options from queen cells to mated queens
5 Ways to Fix a Package Queen that Failed
Fixing a failed or dead queen in a beehive can be frustrating, especially when it is the queen in your newly purchased package of bees.