Wintering Bees
A Cooperative Effort of Both Bees and Beekeeper It’s all forms of management Feeding, protecting, treating, wrapping, and still more. Fall and winter management is…
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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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Winter Management
Using Insulation and Ventilation in Temperate Climates By: William Hesbach Evolution has provided honey bees with an extraordinary ability to thermoregulate and survive…
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Good Stuff From Ann
Ready, Set, Go! By: Ann Harman During October, November and December you should have noticed that your queens are starting to take a vacation—a…
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The Beekeeper
By: Jim Thompson Over the years a beekeeper develops a style of working their bees and it is hard to explain just how one…
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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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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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