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Beehive Management

Effective beehive management is crucial for maintaining healthy and productive colonies. These articles offer valuable insights and techniques for beekeepers to monitor hive health, regulate population dynamics, control pests and diseases, and optimize honey production.

  • Beekeeping in Fall

    Beekeeping in Fall

  • Water and granulated sugar for cakes for bee food.

    DIY Sugar Cakes for Bees

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

    How to Care for a Queen Bee in a Cage

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

    A Good Brood Pattern

  • Plastic chicken waterer being used as bee feeder.

    Chicken Waterer Bee Feeder

  • 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

  • Beekeeping apiary row of hives sitting in Winter snow image.

    Keeping Bees in Winter

  • Inset image of bees inside a hive with a full sized langstroth hive.

    Peek Inside a Beehive

  • Honey bees feeding on honey from a wooden dipper.

    Feeding Honey to Bees

  • Hives in Winter snow with inset image of frames from a dead beehive.

    Beehives Die During Winter

  • Worker bees feeding on sugar water image.

    Feeding Sugar Water to Bees

  • Well prepared beehives in Winter snow image.

    How to Winterize a Beehive

  • Jar of syrup in beehive for fall bee feeding.

    Feeding Bees in Fall

  • Beehives and other equipment stored in shed for Winter image.

    Winter Storage of Beekeeping Equipment

  • Beekeeper prepares to reverse the two chambers of a beehive.

    Reversing Hive Bodies

  • Beekeeper placed beehives in shady area to keep cooler.

    Beehives Cooler

  • Beehive wrapped with hive cozy insulation in snow.

    Beehive Insulation

  • Beekeepers perform critical beekeeping tasks during summer in apiary.

    Summer Beekeeping Tasks

  • Queen honey bee marked red on frame with retinue image.

    How to Mark a Queen Honey Bee

  • Large dark adult queen bee in hive with workers image.

    Queen Bee Life Cycle

  • How to Requeen a Hive

    How to Requeen a Hive

  • Beekeeper performing a beehive inspection on hive image.

    Beehive Inspections

  • New beeswax and bees from a frame without foundation.

    Foundationless Beekeeping

  • Full nuc with bees on top and a full sized langstroth hive.

    Time to Move Bees from Nuc to Full-Sized Hive

  • Frame from a beehive with bees and the queen bee image.

    Finding the Queen Bee

  • Worker bee drinking sugar water at bucket feeder.

    Make a Bucket Bee Feeder

  • Honey bee flying to bee with during bee lining process.

    Bee Lining

  • Beekeeper in apiary putting on bee gloves for safety.

    Beekeeping Safetyย ย ย ย ย ย 

  • Frames of bees and comb from a natural beehive apiary.

    Natural Beekeeping

  • Beekeeper holding frame of new queen bees being raised image.

    Queen Bee Rearing

  • Aging queen honey bee in hive on comb image.

    Queen Bee Dies

  • Beehives on pallets used for migratory beekeeping image.

    What is Migratory Beekeeping?

  • Frame from beehive with no queen.

    Queenless Hive

  • Balling cluster of honey bees with queen inside the ball.

    Balling the Queen Bee

  • Top feeder filled with sugar water on a hive image.

    Stop Feeding Bees Sugar Water – Syrup

  • Marked queen honey bee in a hive image.

    Role of a Queen Bee

  • Beehive open during an inspection for proper hive management image.

    Beehive Management

  • Package of bees being installed into a full size hive image.

    Installing a Package of Bees

  • Large size queen honey bee surrounded by workers on comb image.

    Queen Bee Size – Is Bigger Better?

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