Make This Bee Lining Box
By: Frank Linton A Package Of Cookies, Some Rubber Bands, Sticky Tape And Your Jacknife. Improvised Bee Lining Box Can you recall a time…
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New – Gifts For Yourself Or Others
BeeCounted.org is a map-based public website where beekeepers and the general public can see the extensive data being collected across the country through BroodMinder…
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RAW HONEY OR RAW DEAL?
By: Katherine Kiefer Interest in honey bees and beekeeping has never been greater. It follows that interest in honey has also grown. Newer beekeepers…
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Winter Reading – Great Gifts For Any Beekeeper!
Two books you should read…. Where Honeybees Thrive. Stories From The Field. By Heather Swan. Published by Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-07741-3. 176…
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OBSERVATION HIVE HOW-TO From simple to complex, you can make these yourself. (1 of 2)
By: Claire Kimmel Still Learning. It is a long desired hobby for my husband, but I have had much opportunity to be involved. After…
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OBSERVATION HIVE HOW-TO From simple to complex, you can make these yourself. (2 of 2)
By: Dan Long A WindOH. I love observation hives! Instantly engaging and fascinating to anyone, they provide a literal window into the secret lives…
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New Item For Beekeepers & Some Good Fall & Winter Reading
The Hive Butler™ “Working, even when you’re not!” Tired of precious honey frames in dirty supers, old coolers or cheap office totes? We sure…
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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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