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Beekeeping is a rewarding hobby—but it comes with a learning curve. Whether you’re just getting started or refining your hive management skills, this section provides expert tips, practical guides, and trusted advice to help your bees thrive.

Blue langstroth beehive of the correct dimensions for standard.

Langstroth Hive Dimensions

Bottling a small jar of honey from extractor.

Bottling Honey: How to Process Your Honey

Honey bees entering hive through opening in entrance reducer.

Entrance Reducers for Beehives

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Wax Moths

Large queen bee inside a hive on comb.

Why Bees Kill their Queen

Honey bees at front of hive with essential oil bottle image.

Essential Oils for Honey Bees

Homemade bee candy for beehive.

DIY Candy Board for Bees: No Cook

Beekeeper checking mite drop on stick board image.

How to Test for Varroa Mites

Seeing mites on brood means its time to treat image.

When to Treat Bees For Mites?

Beekeeper treating for varroa mites with oxalic drench image.

Varroa Mite Treatments

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How to Decorate Your Painted Beehives

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What is an Apiary?

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How to Clean A Bee Smoker

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How to Light a Bee Smoker

Beekeeper lighting smoker with pine needles as smoker fuel.

Bee Smoker Fuel

Bee smoker being used to calm beehive by blowing smoke in top.

What Does Smoke do to Bees?

White smoker from a beekeepers smoker on top of a hive image.

The Bee Smoker

Two bee packages ready to install in hive image.

Buying Bee Packages

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Beekeeping Clothing – A Complete Guide

Assembled beehive in field.

Parts of a Beehive

How to Buy Bees for Your Hive

How to Buy Bees for Your Hive

Langstroth hive with arrow to bottom board and bees at hive entrance image.

Bottom Boards for A Beehive

Boxed frames of the flow hive with honey flowing from the spout.

Flow Hive

Bees at entrance of a nuc hive image.

A Nuc of Bees

New wooden quilt box for beehive with shavings image.

How to Make a Bee Quilt Box for Your Hive

Two winter beehives in the snow beekeeper feeding before cold image.

Feeding Bees in Winter

Small jars of honey priced for sale on market day.

Honey Prices – What to Charge?

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Choosing a Beekeeping Suit for You

Honey bee hive and homemade pollen patties ready for bees image.

How to Make Pollen Patties for Bees

Beekeeper checking hive frame, cost of a new smoker, beekeeper in apiary.

Beekeeping Costs

Hive products that beekeepers make money from.

How Much Beekeepers Make {Profits?}

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

Do You Have a Drone Laying Queen?

Winter storage for honey supers with drawn comb stacked image.

How to Store Honey Supers With Drawn Comb

Water and granulated sugar for cakes for bee food.

Sugar Cakes for Bees

Stacked boxes of warre hive with sloped roof.

The Warre Hive

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

Harvest Bee Propolis from Your Hive

Apiarist beekeepers inspecting hives image.

What is a Beekeeper Called?

Used queen excluder on a honey bee hive image.

Queen Excluder – Should You Use One?

Beekeeper moving a beehive with a truck and a buggy.

How to Move a Beehive

Large number of beehives in one person's apiary.

How Many Beehives In a Location?