Asian Hornets: Effective Control And Tips For Beekeepers
Protect your bees: Learn vital tips for beekeepers on controlling the invasive Asian Hornet, safeguarding honeybees and maintaining healthy hives and pollination.
Protect your bees: Learn vital tips for beekeepers on controlling the invasive Asian Hornet, safeguarding honeybees and maintaining healthy hives and pollination.
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 can go wrong when a colony of bees decides to replace its queen with a new queen. When left to the bees to perform this task, usually the colony will …
Table of Contents Oh boy, beekeeping can be confusing getting into beekeeping. I remember when I was there, I’ve still got the notebook that is full of all the questions I had before I opened my first hive. What is a brood box? How many supers do I need? What is a super? It was …
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, she is responsible for its future. A colony of bees can survive when one of their worker bees or drones dies, but without the queen, a colony will eventually fail. …
The first time I tried to harvest honey, I used a bee brush to remove bees from the honey frames after I removed the honey supers. I brushed and brushed the bees off, shook the frames, and got most of them off, but it was a long time spent clearing bees. The next time, my husband …
Table of Contents Installing a nucleus colony (nuc) of bees is an exciting and rewarding experience, especially for beginner beekeepers. Not only does it provide the opportunity to work with a small, established colony, but it also sets the stage for a thriving apiary. See the nucleus hives we have for sale. Starting a colony …
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Understanding how many glass jars or plastic bottles of honey to buy can be confusing. It’s hard to figure out how much honey you actually have, and then you have to convert that to ounces or fluid ounces, pounds, cups, etc… It gets difficult to figure it out, but we have made that part easy. …
Buying queens for your bees can be a little overwhelming, but as the beekeeper you have multiple options from queen cells to mated queens
Setting up a bee hive stand is an important step in getting started with beekeeping and there are multiple types of hive stands available.
Wondering how much does honey weigh? Need to know what 16 oz of honey in cups? We built this interactive honey calculator that will convert it all.