Now that you've hived your bees, you'll want to check on them weekly to be sure that the queen is alive and laying eggs. You should be able to find...
Horticultural Hive-Mind: A Gardener’s Guide To Protecting the Bees
When you see a small, striped, stinging creature making its way from flower to flower, you might be inclined to cry out in fear. If you’re allergic or entomophobic, it’s...
Buzz Kill: bees are dying and why it matters to you (SCIENCE DAILY)
Interesting roundup from Science Over Everything: As long as they have existed, bees have been an important and integral part of the Earth’s ecosystem; they help flowering plants reproduce and...
Buying A Package of Bees
The rewards of beekeeping extend far beyond just honey. Bees create more bountiful gardens and orchards for you and your surrounding community. In addition, they provide excellent health supplements like...
Are Your Bees Right or Left Handed?
Bees don’t have “hands” but new research coming out of Australia has found that individual bees are prone to their left or right side. Here’s what the New York Post...
Can Bees and Backyard Chickens Coexist?
Urban homesteading, urban farming, and urban beekeeping… whatever you call it many families are interested in raising their own food again. From vegetable gardens and fruit trees, to raising your...
Buying packages of Bees
The rewards of beekeeping extend far beyond just honey. Bees create more bountiful gardens and orchards for you and your surrounding community. In addition, they provide excellent health supplements like...
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...
Beekeeping Calendar
The Bees Are... To Do List January - February (Is my hive alive) The bees have been dormant and it is time to see if/how they are surviving the winter....
LESSON 9: Packaged Bees and How to Care for Them
Packaged bees are produced in the southern states to be shipped into northern states in the spring. The 3 lb. size is the most popular and it is said that...