What You’re Seeing In Your Hives
Wonder what you should be finding when you’re doing your hive inspections now? Take a look! You’ll definitely see the bees pulling out your foundation to make comb. You should see pollen coming into the hive. Yellow, orange, red, you name it. As long as your girls are bringing...
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What Type of Bees Should I Get?
One of the questions we receive regularly is “what type of bees should I get?” For most of us, when purchasing a package of bees, there will only be one or two choices. The most common choices are Italian and Carniolan and often these are the only choices for...
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Your First Hive Inspection
So you’ve installed your package of bees and left them alone for a week and now the big day is here. It’s time for your first hive inspection! But what will you find and what should you expect to see? Will you find the queen and do you have...
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Who Is In My Hive? The Different Bees in Every Beehive
Have you ever wondered what bees are in a bee hive? There are three basic types of bees, all of whom have very specific tasks. Let’s meet them: Queen She’s the most important bee in your hive. Without her, the hive will die as she is the only bee...
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Beekeeping Pictures
Well we promised more pictures from the package installation and here they are! You can click on each one for a larger size! (click again for an even bigger picture!) Do you have great pictures? Let us know, we’d love to share them!
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Shake, Shake, Shake! Installing Your Package of Bees.
One of the most unnerving ideas for a new beekeeper is installing a beekeeping package. You’ve got a three pound package of bees in a little box and you’re supposed to shake it into your hive boxes? Shake a box of stinging insects? While it sounds crazy this is...
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Why We’re Shutting Down Our Beekeeping Kit Sales
UPDATE: We’ve sold out of the kits now. Thanks for helping us get rid of this inventory folks and for helping us focus on our mission of education! An update from Ron: I’ve got some pretty big news, and thought you should know. We’ve been having a ton of...
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Keeping Bees With Kids
Wonder about keeping bees if you have kids? Will they get into trouble? Will the kids freak out about the bees? We asked beekeeper David Emmons about his experience with little ones around honey bees. Here’s what he had to say: First and foremost tell us a bit about...
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Book Review: Plan Bee by Susan M. Brackney
You can’t be out in the bee yard every day, well, not without making your bees a bit cranky. So what does a good beekeeper do on a day off from the apiary? Why read of course! This month we read Plan Bee by Susan M. Brackney. The subtitle...
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