One of the main components of the beehive is the frames and foundation where lots of activity occurs. For new beekeepers, there is often much confusion about the varieties of...
Guest Post: Keeping Predators Away From Your Hives
When you’ve poured time, money, and love into keeping bees, it can be absolutely devastating to lose them to predators. Unfortunately, there are creatures out there that love bees and...
Australian Blue-Banded Bees are Heavy Metal Fans?
Some very interesting (and amusing) video from RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Researchers used high speed video to capture how Australian blue-banded bees pollinate flowers compared to other bees. Turns...
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...
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...
LESSON 4: Queen, Worker and Drones Behavior
Through the centuries, man has tried to solve the secrets responsible for the success of the honey bees. Only now are we beginning to lift the veil of mystery from...