Pollen Substitutes
The use of a pollen substitute in the Spring is recommended for packages, nucleus colonies, and splits for increased production of bees and honey….
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Frame Time
All About Feeding Bees When the hot, sweltering days of summer finally break, we southerners put down our fans and mint juleps, and welcome…
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Summering Your Top Bar Hive
Consider Heat, Rain, and Queen Loss The results of the 2015-16 Bee Informed Partnership annual survey are in. It hurts to think that beekeepers…
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Summer Increase
Summer increase colonies are easy to make up if you follow these simple steps. Allow enough time, and make sure you have everything you’ll…
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Water Gardens
Bees Need Water and Will find It….. Somewhere My system. Three containers. The large one on the bottom holds small stones and…
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Winter in July
By: Ann Harman In Antarctica, yes. But here in the temperate area of the United States Winter is far from our minds. (If you…
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Good Stuff from Ann
What’s On The Menu?? SUGAR It makes no difference whether you took some bee-keeping classes, or worked with a mentor or read some books…
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Hive Tasks
July, August, September By: Ann Harman First Year Monitor and decide on Varroa treatment in July. Winter survival depends on Varroa con-trol during…
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Without Chemicals
Yes it can be done. No, you cannot completely rid your colonies of either pest, but by reducing the numbers of Small Hive Beetles…
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Your Second & Third Year
Quite frankly, if not done the during the first season of keeping bees, the second and third year are the years that set the…
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