Category: David Burns
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How to Overcome Queen Acceptance Challenges Part 2
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns One of the most important reasons we inspect our bees is to ensure that we have a good laying queen. It’s easy to evaluate your queen without even finding her…
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How to Overcome Queen Acceptance Challenges Part 1
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns We all know the feeling of spending forty dollars for a new queen and another forty dollars for overnight shipping only to have her not be accepted in our queenless…
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The Hidden Skill That Can Turn Any Good Beekeeper Into a Great One Part 2
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Most beekeepers, during their first few years, (myself included) seem to inspect their bees in a predictable way. We inspect our bees by focusing on individual parts rather than seeing…
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The Hidden Skill That Can Turn Any Good Beekeeper Into a Great One Part 1
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Recently it has become clear to me that one of the biggest challenges facing beekeepers today, especially new beekeepers, is a serious disconnect between descriptive beekeeping and interpretive beekeeping. I…
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The Joy of Helping Others
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns One of the greatest joys in beekeeping is helping a prospective or new beekeeper get started. It is so enjoyable when you can open up a hive with a new…
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Learning the Art of Answering Beekeeping Questions
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Learning the Art of Answering Beekeeping Questions By: David Burns Beekeeping breeds questions and how we answer these questions matters. Some answers may cause more confusion or leave someone feeling overwhelmed. Learning the…
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Does Beekeeping Have to Be So Frustrating?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Anyone who thinks beekeeping isn’t hard hasn’t kept bees very long. From the outside — or through the eyes of a brand-new beekeeper — it looks peaceful, relaxing, maybe even…
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The Autumn Illusion: Why Healthy Looking Colonies Can Still Collapse
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Fall is a season that allows beekeepers to take a breath. For most beekeepers, we’ve harvested our honey and treated for mites (again) and have equalized our hives by combining…