Why Honey Supers Matter Bees make honey as a way to preserve their food through the winter. They often make excess, which becomes a sweet perk for the beekeeper. Bees...
Inside Your Hive: Should You Be Concerned?
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...
Use This One Strange Trick To Catch A Swarm This Season
When Life Gives You Lemongrass Did you know that honey bees are attracted to the smell of lemongrass essential oil? It's true! In fact, lemongrass essential oil mimics the nasonov...
Why Did My Bees Die? Part 2 Of 2
In our post last week, we discussed the factors and variables that can cause your hive to fail over the winter. In this weeks post we'll round out some other...
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...
Royal Jelly: Crown Jewel of the Beehive
Did you know that a queen bee can lay up to 1,500 eggs per day? This is more than her own body weight! Did you know that a queen bee...
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...
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...
Can Eating Organic Help Save the Bee?
The honey bee is in trouble. Last winter 44% of managed honey bee colonies didn’t make it through the winter. Commercial honey bee colonies are managed by professional beekeepers who...
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...
The Number One Mistake Modern Beekeepers Want To Avoid
For thousands of years, the science of beekeeping has presented challenges to that special breed of people who have a passion for working with bees. Taking too much honey during...
Save the Bee 5K Tips: What Runners Can Learn From Honey Bees
For this post, we interviewed some of our best friends—the honey bees! They took a few minutes out of their busy spring schedules to share these helpful hints. Hey runners—we...
Top 5 Human Occupations for Honey Bees
It’s a girl’s world. This is especially true when you’re talking about honey bees. Over 95% of the 60,000+ honey bees in a healthy honey bee colony are female. Bees...