5 Guidelines for Feeding Honeybees
November 5, 2019In certain situations, honeybees need food to help the colony survive. Here are tips on knowing when, how, what and how much to feed your bees.
In certain situations, honeybees need food to help the colony survive. Here are tips on knowing when, how, what and how much to feed your bees.
Bears looking for honey can cause a great deal of damage and break up your colonies of honeybees. Here are ways to prevent that.
This excerpt from Storey’s Guide to Keeping Honey Bees covers summer inspections and potential problems such as nectar scarcity, mites and missing queens.
Top-bar hives have basic as well as optional components. Which ones you use—and how you use them—depends on your beekeeping goals and philosophy.
Supporting leafcutters, masons and other species of native bees is just as important as helping their managed-colony counterparts.
The beekeeping hobby is full of opinions and advice—and not all of it is good. We separate truth from several common beekeeping myths.
Thoughtful setup and preparation for your hives now can save you (and your bees) loads of time and trouble later.
To best interact with your bees, wear something that’s comfortable while also calming to bees. Here are tips on clothing and other preparation.
As a beginning beekeeper, you can choose from several hive design. Give some additional consideration to best home for your bees.
The sticky substance that aggravates beekeepers benefits collective and individual honeybee health. Researchers have triggered bees to forage for more resin to produce propolis, and so can you.