Americans consume about 1.3 pounds of honey per person per year. If you're interested in keeping bees and want to be able to harvest raw honey in your own backyard,...
Eight is Great Because of Weight
Langstroth hives, which are box-type beehives that hold removable frames, are the most popular hives in use today. They were invented by Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth in the USA more than...
Become a Beekeeper- Winter Beekeeping Classes at GloryBee
Are you ready to become a beekeeper? Now is the perfect time to start learning the time-honored tradition of keeping bees. The beekeeping season kicks-off in mid-April. These winter months...
Top 3 ways to prevent wax moths
freezeIt takes eight ounces of honey for bees to make one ounce of comb wax. That’s a lot of honey that the bees could have used to feed the hive...
Hive Placement – Top 4 Factors
Location, Location, Location! Where you ultimately decide to place your hives can have a huge effect on the success you have raising healthy bees. Hive management is not possible if...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Colony Check – All is Well!
My eight year old son joined me to check on our three hives as the weather was sunny and warm enough to check on the queen and the brood. It...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Working the Bees
The main purpose of working the bees today was to attempt to weaken the packaged bee hive and give it more space while in turn strengthening the swarm hive. First...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Bees & Wax
What is happening: I went into my "Swarm hive" and noticed the entire upper box was filled with honey (no brood) so I checked the bottom box and identified eggs...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Fall Bee Treatment
What is happening: The honey supers are all off of the hives and I am down to two deep supers for brood chambers on all three hives. What I am...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Beekeepers Visit
My son and I recently paid a visit my friend Paul to check out how his bees were doing and see if he needed any assistance with his bees. Paul...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Oh Sweet Honey!
I decided to check on the swarm hive that I captured recently to see how they were as I had added a honey super. I noticed that the bees were...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Supersedure
One week after I added my second deep super to both hives I wanted to check to see if they had moved up and cleaned up some of the frames...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Packaged Bee Hive
If you remember last week (one week after I added the 2nd Deep Super) the queen had laid in 3 frames. This week I checked and basically all of the...