Essential Oil Recipe for Honeybees
There are several commercial essential oil concentrates for sale for honeybees. These essential oil mixtures have several benefits. They improve the disease resistance of the honeybees, they calm the bees when you are working them, and they can help introduce a new queen to a beehive.
A Hive Prepares to Swarm, photos show how
I was watching our hives last week, and thought Hive #1 was looking less busy at the entrance. I was thinking it had swarmed. So we opened up the hive, and found our marked queen, which means the hive had not swarmed.
Queen has been released in our newest beehive
The worker bees have released the queen bee from her queen cage which you can see in the lower right of the photo
Beehive lost to nosema?
I went over to a friend’s house yesterday to find he had lost a hive recently. There were few dead bees in the hive, but here was a ton of what I think…
How to move a Beehive : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping
We decided to move one of our beehives, and learned how to move a beehive, and now we’ll show you how we moved the beehive. ( that’s a lot of Beehives ) BUT,…
What honeybee starvation looks like in a beehive
A neighbor lost a hive, and as we took it apart, I saw for the first time what honeybee starvation looks like. Bee Starvation can happen for a different reasons, here are a…
Late Winter Check and Feeding of the Honey Bees
We’ve had a cold winter here, and we’ve had few opportunities to open up our hives to check on the bees. It depends on which expert you are asking, but you should only…
Honey bees bringing in pollen in late March
Its was real warm this weekend, and the bees broke cluster a while ago, and this weekend they were out collecting pollen. i think its from Maple Trees.
Re Queening both our hives this spring
After reading a glowing article in Bee Culture about Jennifer Berry and her excellent queen rearing program, we have decided to replace the queens in both our hives with queens from Jennifer Berry….
Wrapping your beehive with insulation – Beginning Beekeeping
Where we live in Northwestern Connecticut, it gets quite cold. Not as cold as I remember as a kid in Wisconsin, but its cold. Temperatures for a week in January were around 6…
The Screened Bottom Board, leave open or closed in winter?
Both our hives have a plastic screened bottom board. I think screened bottom boards are a must for controlling varroa mites. Varroa mites are a big problem for bees, and with a screened…
