Thermal Efficiency
By : Derek Mitchell Honey bees collect flower nectar to make honey, but that is only the beginning. It can be shown that they…
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An Apology To Oxalic Acid
By Frank Mortimer Skeptical at first, I’ve seen the light. When I was new to beekeeping, the first beekeeping course I took was titled,…
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Why Are My Top-Bar Combs Crooked
By Wyatt Mangum Top-bar hive beekeepers need straight interchangeable combs in all hives, so they can manage colonies efficiently. For example in routine colony…
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Taming Killer Bees
W. S. Robinson Three separate times during this adventure in the mountains of Tabasco I think well, that’s that. We’re not going to get…
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MOVING BEES
By: Jennifer Berry When You Have To, Be Prepared. This past October, (and for several years now), it has been unseasonably warm with occasionally…
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Oxalic. A Better Way?
By: Jennifer Berry A new method may be better. Time will tell. Several months ago, Randy Oliver started writing about a new application method for…
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Beekeeping In The Bahamas
By: Jennifer Berry The thought of taking a 12-24 hour old larvae and transforming it into a queen is amazing. It’s been almost 20…
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Requeening, Again
By: Larry Connor The young worker looked at the owner, dumbfounded. “You want me to kill all the queens I find in these colonies?” The…
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Requeening
By: Larry Connor In Nature In Nature, queen replacement is a family event. When a queen is being a replaced, the worker bees recognize…
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What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You
By: Denise Ohio and Catherine Minden Keeping Records Beekeeping is a multisensory experience. You don’t just see the bees, you listen to them, you…
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MAKING INCREASE
A Comparison Of Different Methods Of Obtaining Honey Bees By: Patrick Dwyer Making increase is a fundamental activity of beekeeping whether one is a…
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Young Harris Institute
By: Jennifer Berry It’s amazing how many meetings and workshops one could attend around the county, state, or country. This week alone at only one…
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A “NET GAIN” CELL BUILDING SYSTEM
By: Joe Latshaw Not how big, but how small can a cell building colony be and still do a good job? Queen rearing is…
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Honey By The Ton From Top Bar Hives
By: Wyatt Mangum This article provides data on cotton honey production from top-bar hives collected over two seasons. The first season was a trial…
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Leave The Flying To Us
By: Jennifer Berry Moving Bees Is Stressful For The Bees, And The Beekeeper, Almost Always. Sitting at an airport is one of my least favorite…
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FERAL BEES
Rescuing A Feral Nest, After Collapse By: Kathy Keatley Garvey A collapsed feral honey bee colony in a hollowed-out Eucalyptus tree in a secluded area…
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A Better Way To Bottle
By: Allen Hayes Easy To Build – Anyone Can Do This! Many backyard beekeepers bottle their honey using a plastic bucket with a honey…
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BUILD YOUR OWN BEELINING BOX
By: Frank Linton It’s not as hard as you think. Tom Seeley has written a delightful book on the ancient art of lining honey bees…
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Removing Bees
By: Brian Rogers Use Every Tool Necessary Recently I was invited to give a presentation to a Bee Club on the other side of…
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What’s Happening In The Hive
The Hidden Signs Of Swarming Stephen Repasky In temperate areas, beekeepers look forward to many things in the Spring, such as the first pollen…
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