Bee Farm Blog

Field of perennial purple cone flowers planted for bees image.

Best Perennials for Bees

New queen bee with attendant workers in a wooden queen cage image.

How to Care for a Queen Bee in a Cage

Collage of kids honey bee craft projects using tin cans, golf balls, rocks etc.

Honey Bee Crafts for Kids

small swarm ready to be collected.

Should You Catch a Small Swarm?

Pitcher and glass of honey sweetened lemonade with slices.

Homemade Honey Sweetened Lemonade

Large yellow sunflower with bee collecting food.

Why Sunflowers Matter to Bees

Flowers with working bees and line of graphic bees above.

Questions About Bees

Top view of honey bee showing different colors on back.

Honey Bee Colors

Pink and purple wildflowers for bees growing in a meadow.

Wildflowers for Bees: Why They Matter

Side by side view of bee gathering plant nectar and honey pouring in bowl.

Difference Between Nectar and Honey

Full frame of capped honey from honey harvest of beehives.

Harvesting Honey From Bees

Unassembled deep bee box in a carton.

How to Assemble a Beehive Box

Flower port of hummingbird feeder with honey bees drinking.

Keep Bees Away From Hummingbird Feeders

Liquid bottle of certan B402 wax moth control and a frame of comb.

Certan for Wax Moth Control

Purple salvia honey plant in bloom in bee garden.

Top Honey Plants

Honey bees in hive with dropping population and no brood is dying out.

Fix a Failing Beehive

Two white honey bee eggs laid in cells.

Honey Bee Eggs

Pan of beeswax cappings ready to clean image.

How to Clean Beeswax

Mosquito spraying truck a danger to nearby beehives image.

Protect Your Beehives from Mosquito Spraying

An active brood pattern in a beehive with worker bees image.

A Good Brood Pattern

Bee bread stored in comb by adult honey bees for use later image.

How Bees Make Bee Bread

Open package of VarroxSan mite strips.

VarroxSan for Mites

Wooden 10 frame slatted rack for beehive sitting on bottom board.

Slatted Racks for Beehives

Worker bee that has come out to forage on early spring flower.

When do Bees Come Out?

Dead beehive with honey bees and hive resources to salvage.

What to do with a Dead Beehive?

Ingredients of shrimp, honey, and lime stir fry recipe on a yellow plate image.

Honey Garlic Shrimp Stir Fry

Beehive cleats on standard hive box.

Beehive Cleats

Jar of blueberry syrup with honey in a spoon and fresh berries image.

Homemade Blueberry Syrup (with Honey)

Honey bees foraging on purple flowers in garden image.

Honey Bee Garden

Plastic chicken waterer being used as bee feeder.

Chicken Waterer Bee Feeder

Brood frame from strong hive being removed to boost population in weak colony.

Equalizing Bee Colonies

Color hives in Spring apiary of beekeeper.

Beekeeping in Spring

Queen bees in cages ready to be bought by beekeepers image.

How to Buy a Queen Bee

Honey bees grouped on comb inside a colony.

What is a Group of Bees Called?

Small swarm of honey bees hanging from a tree branch.

Honey Bee Swarms

Two different breeds of honey bees image.

Types of Honey Bees

Worker bees fanning wings to communicate

Bees Fanning

Mound of dead honey bees outside hive due to pesticide poisoning.

Bees and Pesticides

A collage of beekeeping activities related to the hobby image.

Beekeeping Terms

Honey bee entering hole in wall and bees and wax removed from inside.

How to Remove Bees from House