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Yellowjackets Are Everywhere. Are They a Threat...
Every August the questions change from swarms and supers to wasps. Yellowjackets ignoring the traps, mobbing the hummingbird feeder, staking out the bird bath, hanging around hive entrances. If that's...
Yellowjackets Are Everywhere. Are They a Threat...
Every August the questions change from swarms and supers to wasps. Yellowjackets ignoring the traps, mobbing the hummingbird feeder, staking out the bird bath, hanging around hive entrances. If that's...
Overwintering, Part 1: Why We Winter Bees in a ...
Every spring, somebody calls us in April with the same story. The hive looked terrific in October. Heavy. Loud. Bees pouring out the entrance on the last warm day. Then...
Overwintering, Part 1: Why We Winter Bees in a ...
Every spring, somebody calls us in April with the same story. The hive looked terrific in October. Heavy. Loud. Bees pouring out the entrance on the last warm day. Then...
Why August Is the Most Important Month for Nort...
The bees that carry a colony through a northern winter are raised from roughly August into early October, and they are physiologically different from summer bees — longer-lived, fat-body heavy,...
Why August Is the Most Important Month for Nort...
The bees that carry a colony through a northern winter are raised from roughly August into early October, and they are physiologically different from summer bees — longer-lived, fat-body heavy,...
When Should I Harvest Honey in a Northern Climate?
Harvest when frames are at least 80 percent capped, and leave enough behind that the colony can winter without you. In the northern plains that second part is the one...
When Should I Harvest Honey in a Northern Climate?
Harvest when frames are at least 80 percent capped, and leave enough behind that the colony can winter without you. In the northern plains that second part is the one...
What Does a Healthy Brood Pattern Look Like?
A healthy pattern is a solid oval of capped brood near the middle of the frame, with few skipped cells, ringed by pollen and then honey toward the edges. That...
What Does a Healthy Brood Pattern Look Like?
A healthy pattern is a solid oval of capped brood near the middle of the frame, with few skipped cells, ringed by pollen and then honey toward the edges. That...
How Do I Monitor for Varroa Mites?
Take roughly 300 adult bees from one to three brood-nest combs, avoiding the queen, and do an alcohol or soap wash. That's about half a cup of bees, lightly packed....
How Do I Monitor for Varroa Mites?
Take roughly 300 adult bees from one to three brood-nest combs, avoiding the queen, and do an alcohol or soap wash. That's about half a cup of bees, lightly packed....