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Beekeeping Calendar October/November
Add to Favorites A guide to Beekeeping in the Northern Hemisphere. Loving Hive Highlights? Download other helpful resources in this series! CLICK HERE to get your pdf!
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Add to Favorites A guide to Beekeeping in the Northern Hemisphere. Loving Hive Highlights? Download other helpful resources in this series! CLICK HERE to get your pdf!
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How Long Will a Colony Survive Without a Queen?
Even without a queen, a honey bee can complete her normal adult lifespan of about four-to-six weeks.
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Can I Feed Frames of Honey Back to My Colony?
I live in the NC Piedmont. I prepared my hives for winter last Sunday by removing the top supers and adding a quilt frame and a candy board. These are two first-year hives. The honey was not capped last month. This month it’s all capped including eight full frames in the supers and four that are about half full.
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How to Make a Quilt Box
A quilt box is a great way to absorb the water that condenses from bees’ respiration during the colder months. While bees can tolerate cold temperatures, the moisture can be deadly.
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How Do I Combine Two Double-Deep Hives?
Before you begin to combine the two double-deep hives, try to consolidate the brood nests in each hive. For example, If one hive has five frames of brood in one box, and two in the other box, try to put all seven of them in one box. Repeat this process in the other hive.
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How late in the year can I requeen?
You can requeen a colony at nearly any time of year. The queen will slow her laying sometime after the summer solstice and continue to decrease the rate of laying until perhaps October or November. Most queens begin increasing the rate of lay soon after the winter solstice.
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Is Honey Antibacterial?
Is honey antibacterial? Rumor has it that honey has supposed antimicrobial properties.
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Honey Bee Predators: Mammals in the Bee Yard
Honey bees have many threats to contend with on a nearly daily basis, just like any other creature.
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What Are Those White Worms in My Honey?
The little white “worms” we sometimes see in honey are not actually worms at all. Instead, they are the larva stage of the wax moth. Just like honey bees, wax moths go through four stages of metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
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