Category: David Burns
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Hive Inspections & Human Bias: More Than Meets the Eye
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 Years ago, I held an advance beekeeping course at my training center. Something surprising happened and it has stayed with me ever since. I split the class of 16 experienced…
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The Hive Detective: Solving the Mystery Of Your Bees
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 Everyone likes a good mystery. You know, the clues are hidden in plain sight, the suspect isn’t who you expect, and the key to the mystery is staring you right…
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Starting, Stumbling, and Succeeding: The Beekeeper’s Guide to Perseverance
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 thing I’ve learned from my YouTube channel on beekeeping is Spring is a stressful time for beekeepers. For many, beekeeping is a whole new thing, and the learning curve…
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When Beekeeping Feels More Stressful Than Satisfying: How to Fix It
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 (Click on photos to enlarge) Most of us probably started beekeeping because it was an exciting and attractive hobby. Beekeeping is adventurous, a bit mysterious and very surreal to the…
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Thriving Hives: A Matter of Science or Mere Chance?
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 (Click on photos to enlarge) Coming out of Winter sometimes feels like playing the lottery. Instead of scratching off numbers, we are opening lids to see which hives survived the…
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Career Change and Honey Bees
By: David Burns I want to share my story about how honey bees created a career change and total life change for me…for the better. My early life wasn’t too much different than most people. I got married, went to college, graduated, pursued a career and had a family. As a young man I started…
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When is an Inspection Too Long?
By: David Burns How long should it take to inspect a colony of bees? This is one of the most asked questions I receive on my YouTube channel. When I inquire a bit more, most new beekeepers are inspecting their bees for an hour or longer. How often should we inspect our bees? How long…
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What Beekeeping Taught Me in 2023
Best Lesson Learned So Far By: David Burns I’ve been keeping bees for twenty-eight years and you would think I’d have it figured out and at my age, probably be well past learning anything new. However, last year was probably the year that I learned the most important lesson in beekeeping, and it probably isn’t…