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Foundationless beekeeping is the practice of allowing your honey bees to construct their own natural comb within the frames of a Langstroth hive, with...
Since I started keeping bees 13 years ago, I've learned a thing or two about what it means to be a beekeeper and what NOT to do. Oh, the mistakes I've...
Whether it is your first year or your fifth, picking up bees can be a stressful situation. It doesn't matter what the weather is, or how far you're co...
So you want to become a beekeeper? Great! Beekeeping is an AMAZING hobby. The next step is to learn what to do so you can keep your bees healthy. A gr...
The Himalayan mountain range contains unique biodiversity that inhabit its tall summits and steep ridges. Among several other species is a unique and...
Michael Bush is one of the most influential beekeepers in America right now. He is the author of a few beekeeping books including Beekeeping Naturally...
My first few years as a beekeeper, I was very unsure of myself. I was clumsy and making a lot of little mistakes. Let's talk about things you can do t...
Thinking about becoming a beekeeper? That's fantastic! But before you dive headfirst into the world of honey and hives, it's important to separate fac...
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 bees.
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A very important part to helping your honey bees survive cold, winter weather (also called overwintering a beehive) is making sure there is enough ven...
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 order to 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...
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 and figure out...
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 bees g...
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 was sti...
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 polle...
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! All year...
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 explain it's pu...
Brood boxes, supers, deeps, mediums, shallows – these are all names for the three different types of boxes or hive bodies you can use on your Langstro...
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 - put them i...
