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Challenges & Solutions

Seasonal beekeeping tasks play a critical role in the success and well-being of honey bee colonies throughout the year. These articles provide comprehensive guidance on the specific seasonal tasks and management practices.

  • Worker honey bees drawing comb on a new sheet of foundation in hive image.

    Are Your Bees Slow to Build Comb?

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

    Fix a Failing Beehive

  • Mosquito spraying truck a danger to nearby beehives image.

    Protect Your Beehives from Mosquito Spraying

  • Dead beehive with honey bees and hive resources to salvage.

    What to do with a Dead Beehive?

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

    Equalizing Bee Colonies

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

    Bees and Pesticides

  • Beehives of various colors to decrease bee drifting in apiary.

    Drifting Honey Bees

  • Large colony of honey bees ready for making a split image.

    When and How to Split a Beehive

  • Hot thermometer and beekeepers with beehives, beekeeping in hot weather.

    Beekeeping in Hot Weather

  • Robber bees trying to enter beehive through screen image.

    Robber Honey Bees

  • Group of honey bees clustered on the ground near hive image.

    Why Are My Honey Bees On The Ground?

  • Area of bee brood from a hive with honey backfilling surrounding the young.

    Backfilling Brood Nest

  • DIY queen candy for a honey bee queen cage.

    Making Queen Candy

  • Clean dried bee pollen collected from a trap.

    Collecting Bee Pollen

  • Honey bees in empty honey super on frame.

    Why Are My Bees Not Making Honey?

  • Reduced hive entrance to prevent bees leaving the hive.

    Keep Package Bees or Swarms From Leaving

  • Fewer foragers entering a beehive during a nectar dearth period image.

    Nectar Dearth

  • Beekeeper removing frame of bees from a hive to combine with another image.

    Combining Two Beehives

  • Beekeeper inspecting comb for laying workers.

    Laying Workers

  • Beginning beekeeper using too much smoke causes problems during hive inspection image.

    Beekeeping Mistakes

  • Beeswax burr comb on top bars with bee larvae.

    Burr Comb in Your Hive

  • Older comb frames ready to rotate out of a beehive.

    Comb Rotation

  • Scattered drone brood on a frame in a drone laying queen hive image.

    Do You Have a Drone Laying Queen?

  • Sticky propolis on frames inside a hive with bees nearby image.

    Harvest Bee Propolis from Your Hive

  • Beekeeper moving a beehive with a truck and a buggy.

    How to Move a Beehive

  • Large hive of aggressive bees in late Summer in apiary image.

    Reasons for Aggressive Honey Bees

  • Langstroth hive with good ventilation red arrow shows cool air comes in at bottom.

    Beehive Ventilation

  • Bee hive frame with black beeswax comb.

    Black Honeycomb: What to do With it?

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