BeeKeepClub Resources and Guides for Beekeepers

Learn essential strategies for honeybee colony swarm control and management with our comprehensive article. Perfect for beekeepers facing the challenge of swarming, it provides effective techniques to prevent and manage swarms, ensuring the health and stability of your bee colonies. This guide is crucial for maintaining productive and manageable hives.

Honey uncapping knives and needle rollers are manual tools that can be used to uncap honeycomb cells. In this article we'll be discussing honey uncapping machines, which are automated, mechanized devices that can uncap many frames at once. We'll be taking a look at the honeycomb uncapping process and a few of the best honey uncapping machines.

Enhance your understanding of bee colonies with our article on analyzing queen cells in honeycomb. Crucial for beekeepers, this guide explains how to identify queen cells and what their presence signifies in the hive. Knowledge of queen cells is essential for managing bee colony health and ensuring successful queen rearing.

Among the many predatory animals that are bad news for honeybees, bears rank quite high. Whether a grizzly or black bear, honeybees do not look forward to the day a bear visits their beehive. At best, the bear gets to the brood quickly and eats their fill and then leaves the beehive. In most cases however, a honeybee colony is lost when a bear attacks a beehive. While the bear eats honey, its main target is usually the larvae in the brood chambers. The high protein content of larvae and honeybee eggs makes them prime targets for bears. This article looks at how bears damage beehives and the honeybee colonies in them. It also shares tips on how to protect honeybees from bears.

Beekeepers are faced with many choices about which beekeeping equipment to use. These decisions are best made with information and experience. One important decision is whether to practice the use of beehive foundation in beekeeping. Let us take a look at what beehive foundation is, its use in beekeeping and …