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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.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Jar of amber colored honey with a paper covered cap and a honey label for selling image.

    How to Label Honey

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

    Combining Two Beehives

  • Layens beehive in apiary with mouse guards on front.

    Layens Hive

  • Close up picture of a worker honey bee vs a worker yellow jacket image.

    Honey Bee vs Yellow Jacket

  • Beehive inspection of strong as noted in beekeepers log image.

    Beehive Record Keeping

  • Frame from beehive with no queen.

    Queenless Hive

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

    Balling the Queen Bee

  • Beekeeper lifting brood frame from beehive.

    Bee Brood Box

  • Nucleus colony of bees with numbered frames, bee nuc 5 frame image.

    Buying a Nuc of Bees

  • Beekeeper inspecting comb for laying workers.

    Laying Workers

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

    Stop Feeding Bees Sugar Water – Syrup

  • Extracting honey into a filter bucket image.

    How to Extract Honey

  • Marked queen honey bee in a hive image.

    Role of a Queen Bee

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

    Beekeeping Mistakes

  • Honey bee swarm in flight in air image.

    Stop Bees from Swarming

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

    Beehive Management

  • Deep beehive box with newly assembled frames image.

    How to Assemble Frames

  • Two used empty beehives on a stand.

    Used Beekeeping Equipment

  • Swarming honey bee flying through air with beekeeping in pursuit image.

    Catch a Swarm of Bees

  • Beehives set up in backyard bee yard or apiary image.

    How to Set Up an Apiary (Bee Yard)

  • Bee swarm attracted to entrance of a bait hive image.

    How to Attract a Swarm of Bees

  • Wooden swarm trap placed in tree to catch swarms image.

    Swarm Trap Setup

  • Selling jars of local honey at a market image.

    How to Sell Honey

  • Bee hives placed in best location in apiary.

    Where to put a Beehive

  • 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?

  • how to decrystallize honey with a warming cabinet safely

    Build a DIY Honey Warming Cabinet

  • PVC dry pollen feeder with honey bees gathering pollen substitute image.

    Pollen Feeder for Bees-Make Your Own

  • Dying diseased honey bees on floor of hive.

    Honey Bee Diseases

  • Insect preys on honey bee by killing it.

    Honey Bee Predators

  • Wax moth damage and other pests of the beehive image.

    Honey Bee Pests

  • Beekeeper with a long langstroth horizontal hive.

    Horizontal Beehives

  • Beeswax burr comb on top bars with bee larvae.

    Burr Comb in Your Hive

  • Ant eating honey while inside a beehive.

    How to Keep Ants Out of Beehives

  • Yellow beehive in apiary close to house.

    How Far from Your House for a Hive?

  • Several hives placed near ground with nothing under them.

    What Should You Put Under Beehives?

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