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Where and How to Buy Honey Bees
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Where and How to Buy Honey Bees

​So you’re ready to start your beekeeping adventure? You’ve read the books, you’ve attended some beekeeping lessons, and you’ve got all your fantastic equipment. Now you want to know how to buy your honey bees. There are a few different ways to obtain bees. Each has their advantages and drawbacks. But the good news is,…

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Installing Package Bees in a New Hive
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Installing Package Bees in a New Hive

​If you’ve never installed a package of bees in a hive before then it’s useful to become familiar with the methods available to you before the arrival of your new family of bees. Installation is quick and easy, but different beekeepers have slightly different ways of doing this. I thought I’d take a look at…

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What are the Different Parts of a Beehive?
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What are the Different Parts of a Beehive?

​Modern beehives make the beekeepers job easier. There are a number of different types available, but they all work on the same principle. Hives are designed to allow us to raise bees for the production of honey and for pollination purposes, in a non-destructive manner. Mostly constructed from wood, they literally include hundreds of different…

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The Benefits of Keeping Bees
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The Benefits of Keeping Bees

​If you haven’t paid much attention to bees before, you may only see them as a nuisance during your summer barbecues. But keeping bees can offer a number of benefits. So what are the benefits of keeping bees? Are you debating whether beekeeping is a hobby you want to get into or not? Here are 14…

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How to Stop Robbing Bees
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How to Stop Robbing Bees

​A busy bee is a happy bee! When worker bees are out foraging they are pretty single minded – they want food! When nectar is flowing nicely then honey bees are satisfied. But at certain times, food is hard to find. In this kind of situation you can end up with bees robbing other colonies….

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What makes Honeycomb Dark?
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What makes Honeycomb Dark?

​OK… So you’ve been inspecting your beehive frames for a while now, and you can’t help noticing that frames with brood cells look darker in places. After a while, and certainly after your first season of beekeeping, you’ll see that some cells become dark. With time they may be almost black in color. There can…

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How to Paint and Protect Beehives
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How to Paint and Protect Beehives

​Once your beehive is full of honey bees it gets pretty tricky to paint it! So painting beehives is something you need to consider before you set up and install them. It’s the kind of thing a new beekeeper can easily overlook, and you need to plan ahead and allow enough preparation time. I don’t…

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What is Burr Comb and How to Control it?
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What is Burr Comb and How to Control it?

​If you have ever opened up a hive for inspection only to find some sticky wax comb in places that you didn’t expect, then you have already experienced burr comb. Burr comb is also known as brace comb or sometimes bridge comb. So what is Burr Comb? Burr comb is wax comb which bees have…

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How to Move a Beehive
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How to Move a Beehive

​Sometimes beekeepers need to relocate their hives. Perhaps the original location was a bad choice, or you simply want a better situation for hives during a cold winter. Once a hive is established, bees learn its location and know how to find their way home. So how do you make sure your bees don’t get…

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When to Start a Beehive
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When to Start a Beehive

When I first got interested in beekeeping, I wanted to get started right away! But then I looked outside at the snow and realized it was January, and maybe now wasn’t such a great time. When should you start a beehive? Spring is an ideal time of year to start a new hive. April is…

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Hi, I'm Anthony.
I’ve always been fascinated by honey bees. Bees are extremely beneficial to the environment. And bees are on the decline so it’s up to us to provide a safe habitat for these amazing creatures. Can someone with no experience of bees start beekeeping? I think so ! This blog is about sharing everything that I’ve learned about beekeeping in the hopes that it will help others learn about the wonderful world of bees…

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