Enhance your beekeeping skills with our guide on installing a beehive candy board. This essential winter feeding strategy helps sustain your bee colony during colder months. The article provides practical advice on setting up a candy board, ensuring your bees stay nourished and healthy when natural food sources are scarce.
Read More »How to Harvest Honey Without an Extractor
Harvesting honey from beehives requires you to separate the honey from honeycomb using one of several methods. While using a rotary honey extractor is the best and commonly accepted method of harvesting honey, there are other means by which it can be achieved, which will be discussed in this article. Read on to learn the best methods and tips on how to harvest honey without an extractor.
Read More »How to Make a Homemade Nuc Beehive
For most, the objective is to make a commercial success of your beekeeping journey. What you are about to read is a DIY project that will give you a sense of accomplishment when completed. The importance of making your own homemade Nuc beehive is underlined by the fact the ready-made hive can come at a huge cost to the pocket. If you have not budgeted for one, that should not mean a death blow on your passion for beekeeping. With simple woodworking skills, you are good to go in your attempt to make your own homemade Nuc beehive that you will be proud of. All you are required to do is to simply follow the steps that shall be discussed below and you will definitely have a better understanding of what to do. Enjoy.
Read More »How to Add Feeders to Your Beehive
Bee hive feeders are used for supplying the bees with sugar syrup when sources of nectar are minimal of non-existent. They are also used for providing medicine to the bees. These are medications that can be dissolved in sugar syrup and offered to the bees.
Read More »How to Build a Langstroth Beehive
Beekeeping with Langstroth beehives gives allows for high honey yields and makes beehive maintenance easier. Beekeepers using Langstroth beehives have the options of buying a hive and maybe assembling it themselves, or building one. This article details how to build a Langstroth beehive and touches on the important features of that make this beehive design style so popular in beekeeping. It also delves into benefits of using a Langstroth beehive in beekeeping.
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