Got Questions? Phil Knows!
By: Phil Craft This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Q: A beekeeper in Virginia writes:…
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Hive Tasks
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Spring is a busy time for…
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Let’s Make Candles
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Candle Making When thinking of products…
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City Bees: In the U.S., Cities Are About as Native as Honey Bees
By: Toni Burnham This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Since it’s Winter for many of…
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Do Bees’ Feet Have Suckers?
By: Ian Stell This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years The short answer is: no, they…
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Honey Bee Packages
By: Ross Conrad This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Honey Bee Packages The majority of…
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Southern Spring
By: Ann Harman This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years January is a quiet month for…
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Get Rid of Mites Using Oxalic
By: Jennifer Berry This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Years ago at a state meeting…
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Believe it or Not – Honey Bees & Humans Mimic Each Other
By: Robert Weast This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Have you ever wondered who so…
Read MorePollinator Decline & Self-Medication
By: Rachael E. Bonoan This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years Secondary compounds in pollen &…
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Restocking Winterkilled Hives: A Routine Aspect of Beekeeping
By: James E. Tew This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of BEEKeeping Your First Three Years It is a beehive fact…
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Mountain States Foraging
By: Connie Krochmal This month we’ll take a look at another volume in the Timber Press series on foraging – “Mountain States Foraging – 115…
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Sugar For Bees
By: Ann Harman To feed or not to feed… (My apologies to Will S.) We want our honey bees to survive and live a good…
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Some Beeyard Thoughts, Observations and Updates
By: James E. Tew This month can we just talk? Today is dark, cool, and raining. Good time for conversation. In this article, can…
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Bottom Board
By: Ed Colby A Road Trip Last Fall on my gal Marilyn’s birthday trip to Cortez, Colorado, we visited the Pueblo cliff dwellings in…
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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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The Trails and Tribulations of a New Delaware Bee Club
By: Dewey Caron Nobody said it would be easy. It wasn’t. Starting bees can be a challenge. Starting beehives and a new bee club…
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Get Your Bait Hives Ready!
By: Morris Ostrofsky Recently I was corresponding with a German friend for whom English is a second language about bait boxes. It seems that…
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Swarm Instinct
By: Barbara Gillette On a late sunny afternoon in early August, intuition calls me out to my small apiary of three hives. I checked my…
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The Spin Around Queen
By: Billy Davis The Sustainable Honeybee Program (SHP) had its origin with a queen-rearing project back in the late 1990s. A location in rural…
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