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Can I Do a Late-Summer Split?

August 5, 2021 · Rusty Burlew · Ask The Expert, Beekeeping 101

Splitting in late-summer is possible, although tricky. You need good-sized populations and lots of food stores and you may need to buy a queen. Drones are usually thrown out in August, or even earlier during a dearth, so a do-it-yourself queen may not have a lot of opportunities to mate.

Fire Cider Recipe with Raw Honey

August 4, 2021 · Backyard Beekeeping Contributor · Hive Highlights, Honey & Beeswax

Fire cider is an old home remedy for the runny noses and sniffles before they develop into full-blown colds or flu. Even if you already have a cold or the flu, drinking shots of fire cider can help ease symptoms and might even reduce the duration of a virus.

OAV: How to Treat Varroa Mites

August 4, 2021 · Josh Vaisman · Health & Pests

Add to Favorites My wife and I took a beginning beekeeping class before becoming backyard beekeepers. We learned about wax moth treatment and how to manage ants in beehives. We …

Feeding Honey Bees Successfully

August 4, 2021 · Josh Vaisman · Health & Pests

When I participated in the Northern Colorado Beekeepers Association beginning beekeeping class, I was exposed to more than 15 hours of education. Needless to say, much of it was new to my brain and I felt regularly surprised (in a good way!) by what I learned.

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August 1, 2021 · Steph Merkle · Giveaways

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Brood in Honey; No Queen Excluder — What Now?

July 28, 2021 · Rusty Burlew · Ask The Expert, Honey & Beeswax

Many people don’t like the idea of queen excluders until they get to this point. Brood in the honey supers is a difficult problem to solve, and the solutions are not ideal.

Raising Honey Bees with Pets and Livestock

July 28, 2021 · Angi Schneider · Health & Pests

When we decided to start raising honey bees, one of the things we needed to consider was the safety of the other animals on our property. If we had a large property where we would be able to put our hives away from our other animals it would be easy, but we don’t have a large property.

How Long Can I Keep a Caged Queen Bee Alive?

July 27, 2021 · Rusty Burlew · Ask The Expert

Caged queens can be kept a week to 10 days, and perhaps a day or two longer. But queens lose quality when they are kept from laying for long periods, and the quality of their pheromones decreases, so always keep the storage time as short as possible.

Why Did My Bees Remove the Frame Foundation?

July 17, 2021 · Rusty Burlew · Ask The Expert, Honey & Beeswax

The bees simply bite off a chunk of wax, mix it with their own saliva, chew it into the right consistency, and then build new comb with it somewhere else in the hive. If later in the season they want to use the frames they borrowed from, they will repair the entire thing such that you can barely see what they did.

Can I Put Out Extracted Supers Without Encouraging Robbing?

July 17, 2021 · Rusty Burlew · Ask The Expert, Health & Pests

Finding a source of ready-made honey excites the bees, almost to the point of frenzy. So providing wet supers gets the bees agitated and more willing, it seems, to attempt robbing.

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