In part two of our continuing series on wintering your hives, we discussed winter feeding and supplement use. In part three, our final part, we’ll be concluding with best practices for...
How To Winterize Your Hives [Part 2]
In part one of our continuing series on wintering your hives, we discussed treatment for mites and hive strength. In Part Two we'll be covering best practices for winter feeding...
How To Winterize Your Hives [Part 1]
One of a Beekeeper’s main responsibilities at the end of the honey season is to prepare for winter. This is commonly overlooked by newbees after the excitement of the flow...
The Three most important words beekeepers should know
“Every honey bee colony in the continental United States and Canada either has Varroa mites today or will have them within several months.” – Honey Bee Health Coalition This bold...
How To Make Your Own HoneyStix
HoneyStix are the perfect portable on-the-go snack or single-serve sweetener for your tea. As a snack, they provide a great boost of natural energy for hiking, camping and playing sports,...
Beekeeping Saves Lives
Imagine each day having to walk miles to get drinkable water from a well to sustain your family—a family devastated by poverty and the horrors of HIV. This was the...
Summer Nectar Flow in the Pacific Northwest
The type of nectar and pollen that bees collect will determine the color, flavor and grade of the honey they produce. The amount of nectar and pollen available for honey...
Stacked for Sweetness – Adding A Honey Super
To Swarm Or Not To Swarm Tim got his package of live honey bees, placed them in the single deep brood box and couldn’t wait to get his hands on...
Small Hive Beetle Warning
There's a new pest in town, and it’s not here to make friends with your honey bees. The Small Hive Beetle (SHB) is an invasive and damaging pest of honey bee...
Huge Thanks to our 2015 Save The Bee Partners
Our Save the Bee initiative was launched in 2012 to help save our favorite pollinators. Over the past 4 years, many other individuals and businesses in our community have recognized...
Aggressive Bee-havior And How To Prevent It
Celebrate the joys of beekeeping. There is nothing quite like having your bees buzzing happily about their business as you perform your routine hive inspections. Beekeeping is rewarding, entertaining and...
Three ways honey bees can influence the way you vote
Conservative or liberal? Democrat or Republican? It’s a presidential election year and the air waves are full of political activists trying to persuade us to vote for their favorite candidate....
GloryBee Donates $65,118.68 to OSU Honey Bee Lab
GloryBee launched Save the Bee in 2012 as a part of our social initiative program to directly support organizations dedicated to saving the honey bee and combating colony collapse issues. We have been generating...