BeeKeepClub Resources and Guides for Beekeepers

Beekeepers often ensure security for their honeybees by adding a mesh around the beehive to keep out predators. This is usually in addition to other preventive and active measures they take. Proper beehive security depends on the proper setup, management and maintenance of all the security measures you use in your beekeeping operation. Honeybees have a number of predators of different types. When you leave honeybee colonies in your apiary vulnerable, they are attacked by birds, small animals, and large animals. This article explores the safety of beehives with a detailed investigation of the use of meshes around beehives to keep out predators.

Honey is the oldest source of sweetness known to mankind. Ever since we started exploring its benefits, honey has played a major part in food and medicines. The presence of honey was first discovered in Spain in the cave of Valencia. In the cave the honey seeker was portrayed on an 8000 year old cave painting at Arana Caves in Spain. This ancient painting shows a person extracting honey from wild beehive, which indicates that humans have been practicing honey harvesting for as long as 5000 BC. Today with all these years of experience and knowledge, there is new technology and better ways to harvest honey. Yet, the question lingers, are the ways of honey harvesting ethical?

Beekeepers value their safety very much and prioritize protective clothing among beekeeping equipment. The Bees & Co U84 Ultralight Beekeeper Suit is ventilated and features a fencing veil. The suit promises to keep you safe from nasty bee stings. It is made and sold by Bees & Co. It is built …

Tools are important parts of every industry including beekeeping. There’s a tool in every beekeeping process. You need a certain tool when you’re starting up, a tool to create a colony, you need a tool to take care of the bees; another tool to examine the colony; you need a …

The traps used to capture and kill yellow jackets can either be bought from the various manufacturers, or you can make a DIY trap at home. DIY yellow jacket traps have a number of advantages over commercially made and sold traps. This article will guide you on how to make a yellow jacket trap of your choice.

Beekeepers are offered two types of frames - those made using wood and those made using plastic wooden. Wood is natural and has traditionally been used to make beehive frames. Advances and innovation in apiculture has led to the advent of plastic frames. You may use the two types of frames together or use only one type of frame. In this article we'll discuss the comparison of plastic beehive frames vs wood.

Auto flow beehives owe their existence to an Australian father and son duo – Stuart and Cedar Anderson, the inventors of the technology and founders of the company, Flow. Auto honey flow is a feature in modern beekeeping that allows beekeepers to harvest honey without causing much disturbance to the …

The Mann Lake HH160 Hand Extractor is a stainless steel tangential honey extractor. It is built by Mann Lake, a reputable beekeeping supplies company based in the USA. This employee-owned company has quite a footprint in the beekeeping industry. Its numerous beekeeping products are used the world over by beekeepers. …