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Beekeeping

Practical, experience-based guidance for managing honey bee colonies throughout the year. This section covers the core skills every beekeeper needs.

  • Beginner beekeepers need special tips to get off to a great start!
  • Good hive management skills help your bees thrive and stay healthy and productive.
  • And every beekeeper needs a good understanding of honey bee swarm behavior.
  • Small swarm of honey bees hanging from a tree branch.

    Honey Bee Swarms

  • Two different breeds of honey bees image.

    Types of Honey Bees

  • Two hive with shallow beekeeping supers on top.

    Beehive Boxes

  • Soft bee brush used by beekeeper to move bees.

    Bee Brush

  • Man building a beehive with wooden parts.

    How to Build a Beehive

  • Yellow, white and black plastic foundation pieces with beeswax blocks.

    Apply Beeswax to Plastic Foundation

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

    Drifting Honey Bees

  • Graphic of a worker bee trying to discourage a purple virus cartoon.

    Honey Bee Viruses

  • Row of colorful painted beehives image.

    How To Paint a Beehive

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

    Peek Inside a Beehive

  • Beekeeper looking for signs of EFB.

    European Foulbrood

  • Beekeeper in apiary with supplies and equipment.

    Beekeeping Equipment

  • Drip of honey placed on glass of honey refractometer.

    Honey Refractometers

  • Beekeeper checking sick colony for signs of nosema disease image.

    Nosema Disease in Honey Bees

  • Honey bees feeding on honey from a wooden dipper.

    Feeding Honey to Bees

  • Older beekeeper inspecting hive with new member of association.

    Local Beekeeping Associations

  • Worker honey bees gathering food from bee feeder.

    Bee Feeders

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

    Beehives Die During Winter

  • Two types of hive tools laying on a box of frames.

    Hive Tools

  • Worker bees feeding on sugar water image.

    Feeding Sugar Water to Bees

  • Leather beekeeping gloves being worn to open a hive.

    Beekeeping Gloves

  • Discarded beekeeping equipment from someone who has quit keeping bees.

    Why Beekeepers Quit

  • 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

  • Beekeeper wearing snug fitting shoes with taped pant legs.

    Beekeeping Shoes

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

    Winter Storage of Beekeeping Equipment

  • Varroa mites on bee brood and oxalic acid powder in vaporizer image.

    Oxalic Acid for Bees

  • Full frame from beehive with capped honey.

    Capped Honey in the Hive

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

    Reversing Hive Bodies

  • Beekeeper placed beehives in shady area to keep cooler.

    Beehives Cooler

  • Urban beehive on patio near city image.

    Urban Beekeeping

  • Beehive wrapped with hive cozy insulation in snow.

    Beehive Insulation

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

    When and How to Split a Beehive

  • Dirty beekeeping gloves that need cleaned for season use.

    Clean Beekeeping Gloves

  • Wet honey extractor ready to be cleaned of honey residue and wax bits.

    How to Clean a Honey Extractor

  • Row of hives on stand some with added honey supers image.

    When to Add a Honey Super to Your Beehive

  • Beekeepers perform critical beekeeping tasks during summer in apiary.

    Summer Beekeeping Tasks

  • Metal mouse guard on the entrance of a hive with bees entering.

    Why Do Beekeepers Need Mouse Guards?

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

    How to Mark a Queen Honey Bee

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

    Beekeeping in Hot Weather

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    • Biology and Behavior
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