Beekeeping Feeders
There are lots of different options out there for feeding your bees sugar water. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks and we’ll be looking at several different types over the next few posts. Today we’ll look at the entrance feeder. This feeder uses a typical canning jar with...
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Is It Too Late To Start Beekeeping This Year?
We get that question a lot at World of Beekeeping throughout the year and for most areas the answer now (halfway through July) is yes. It is too late to start because most places aren’t selling packages anymore but further, starting now wouldn’t give your bees time enough...
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Building Your Beekeeping Equipment
We recently received a question from a follower on how to put foundation into frames. Depending on the frames the procedure can be drastically different. If you purchased a kit from us (when we still sold them) then you’ll have one of the easiest times ever putting foundation into...
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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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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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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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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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