Your Bees are Making Gifts!
As we get closer to the holiday season you might be surprised that your little bees are doing hard work to make your gift giving easier. Rather than running to the store to buy the newest plastic gizmo why not use some of the products from your bees to...
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Catching a Swarm Fail
Every once in a while being a lazy beekeeper pays off. On one occasion I caught a swarm of bees in a dead hive simply because I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning out the hive yet and the spring swarm season took care of the issue for me....
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Beekeeping Drone Comb
Back in the good old days beekeepers didn’t have to worry about things like Varroa Mites or colony collapse disorder. Sadly those days are long gone and we’re now in the age of new pests and new problems. On top of those problems we have a lot of different...
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How to get Started in our Forums
Do you want to talk to other beekeepers in our forums but you’re not sure how to get started? Here’s a visual guide that will get you posting on the forums! First, you need to find the forums. You’ll see the link at the top of our web page....
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From the Beekeeping Meeting: How Bees Decide Part 3
This is a continuation of the following posts: How Bees Decide Part 1 How Bees Decide Part 2 So bees don’t just map the location of resources… they have to map time too as flowers do different things at different times. Young bees behave differently than older bees when...
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From the Beekeeping Meeting: How Bees Decide Part 2
This is a continuation of THIS post. MAPS! The waggle dance isn’t the only way honey bees find resources. This is a new understanding for scientists (in the last 30 years or so). Part of the equation is that honey bees have a better understanding of flowers than any...
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From the Beekeeping Meeting: How Bees Decide
Most of us have heard about the honey bee waggle dance and that honey bees communicate. While this is absolutely true, there’s a whole lot more going on than just this waggle dance. For bees to be successful they have to find food efficiently and effectively over a 5...
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Starting a Beekeeping Business
We often have folks email us here at World of Beekeeping about starting a beekeeping business. Often they are looking to produce honey commercially on a large scale or do pollination work. While for many this sounds like a great idea, make your own hours and work for yourself,...
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Keeping Bees in a Log
This is a guest post by Jamie Dehner A few months before I acquired nuc colonies for the first time and started beekeeping “officially” I was shown an interesting thing by a friend. This friend is an arborist and a client had once called him about a beehive in...
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Almost Time To “Go Live” – Here’s Some Sneak Previews
Alright, it’s just about time that we “went live” with this DVD, it’s almost ready to ship, we’ve got to work out a few details, but I think that we can at least give you some preview clips of what will be in the DVD while we do some...
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