Lots of Honey Bees
Well if you just hived your first package this year it’s go time! For many of you the first few weeks of keeping bees is a bit stressful. The bees are working hard to pull out the foundation and the queen is eventually laying but will things look good...
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Flying in the Bees
This is a guest post by Jamie Dehner I live in a weird place. There’s no question about it. The town is called Point Roberts, a five mile square peninsuala that lies beneath the 49th parallel (making it US land) but is isolated geographically from the rest of the...
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Notes From The Beekeeping Meeting
We’ve talked before about joining your local beekeeping association. You can learn quite a bit from these folks, be it bits and pieces of information you haven’t heard elsewhere to things that may be specific to your particular area. To that end here’s what we learned from the last...
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Bee sting Allergies
This is a guest post by David Pearson. I consider myself a fair beekeeper at least I try to be. I don’t go out of my way to get stung but it does happen. Used to be I would get stung about ten times a year and I would...
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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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