The Walt Two-Frame Honey Extractor
By: Walt Dahlgren After completing my WALT TOP BAR HONEY EXTRACTOR published in the October 2013 issue of Bee Culture, I wondered if my…
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Build A Cell Shaped Display
By: Ed Simon The Bee Shed in Rochester, MN was looking for display shelving to be used when selling honey and hive products at flea…
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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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Filtering Honey Almost Every Filter Removes Some Pollen
By: Vaughn Bryant Filtering honey has become a big issue among many individual beekeepers. Many beekeepers want to remove large items of debris such…
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About Beeswax
Swammerdam’s Apprentice Beeswax. What Is It? The main constituents and the physical properties of beeswax.Wax is a hydrocarbon – contains the elements carbon, hydrogen…
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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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Converting Customers To Cremed or Granulated Honey
By: Howard Scott Make more money. Work less. In the market shelf these days, I see more and more cremed and crystallized honey. There…
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Porter Bee Escape: Methods of Removing Honey
By: Jim Thompson Perhaps the oldest and quickest method in removing honey from a hive is the brush method where a beekeeper opens the…
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Solution to the Bee Problem?
By: David Donnelly The media has been all abuzz about a solution to a problem that is near and dear to us beekeepers. NBC…
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Selling Honey for $20 a Pound
30 Tips On Selling Honey. You Don’t Have To Be Clever, Just Honest By: Leo Sharashkin “Do you have local honey?” inquired a store…
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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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Experiences With a Top Bar Hive
By: David Dawson If you’re going to manage your top bar hive for honey production – you’re going to have problems. Introduction. Keeping bees…
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No Lifting!
Something Old Is New In America By: Brian Drebber Slovenian or AZ hives have been around as long as the more common Langstroth hive…
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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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The Polariscope
A Useful Tool For Judging Honey By: Jim Thompson A polariscope, according to the Random House Dictionary is: “an instrument for measuring or exhibiting…
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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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Royal Jelly- A worker bee produced, protein rich, mother’s milk
By: Stephanie Bruneau Did anyone ever tell you ‘you are what you eat’? There is no creature for which this is more true than…
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Reframing
Finding a Better Way to Fix Frames By: D.E. Bentley The frames, strung up between trees on clothesline, looked like an art installation with…
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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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