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Top 10 Reasons for Starting Beekeeping
Honeybees do not necessarily require the management skills of a learned beekeeper for optimum results. Here are the top 10 reasons to start beekeeping.
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What Causes Colony Collapse Disorder in Honeybees?
What is colony collapse disorder (CCD) and what causes it? Maurice Hladik tackles this confounding question.
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How to Make Beeswax Candles
While there are many wonderful beeswax uses, cappings wax can make the most divine beeswax candles.
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Natural Bees Comb Building: Boon or Bust?
The construction of natural bee’s comb is a wonder to behold. Festooning bees clasp legs to form hanging chains, a behavior many beekeepers describe as measuring, and set to work building hexagonal cells using wax flakes they excrete from abdominal glands and shape with their jaws. Each bee appears to work independently, yet somehow cells built by many bees working on different areas of comb come together seamlessly.
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It’s Harvest Time
Extracting, or the honey harvest, is going to befall almost every beekeeper if their efforts are successful and the site of those activities can vary from a garage or the family kitchen to large facilities specifically designed and built for handling the harvest.
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Beekeeping with the Warre Hive: The Original Homestead Beehive
Add to Favorites By Ernie Schmidt, Washington – Beekeeping with the Warre hive, for me, is the easiest way to care for bees. The Warre beehive was developed specifically to be …
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Adventures in Raising Honey Bees
Add to Favorites By D. Parnell, Tennessee – I am not a professional beekeeper in any way, shape or form. It’s been said that if you speak with 25 different beekeepers, you’ll learn of 25 …
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Why Are Bees Declining?
Add to Favorites By Deborah McSweeney – I am a long-time reader and love Countryside and Small Stock Journal — it is one of the best! That said, I had to write …
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