Tag: David Burns
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A Five-Frame Learning Box:
The Fast Track to Beekeeping Experience 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 You cannot become a good beekeeper simply by reading books, attending conferences or classes or by watching YouTube. Good beekeepers are made from gaining…
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The Anatomy of a Robbing Event
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 Honey bees are nature’s model insect. They pollinate our trees and plants, make us delicious honey and work in harmony as a single organism. Honey bees, flowers and butterflies fall…
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Raise a Queen
Become A Better Beekeeper 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 Many beekeepers probably feel that raising queens is out of reach and best left for large-scale, commercial beekeepers with decades of experience. You might think that…
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How Can Honey Bees Hear If They Don’t Have Ears?
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 The United States is celebrating its Semiquincentennial, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. One thing that always makes a great 4th of July celebration is…
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Frame Alignment: Keeping Your Bees in Line And Out of a Bind
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 Have you ever inspected your hive and had to separate two brood boxes only to find a large amount of gross-looking torn open brood in between the top and bottom…
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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…