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Honey Bees Feeding on Sugar Water

Vlogging my beekeeping series

Check it out super excited. Finally caught a swarm.

A variety of molds will grow on the combs when the moisture in the hive gets too high. The moisture gets too high when there are not enough bees to fan it away. I suppose the confusion arises because these

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Many people want to get into beekeeping and they don't know where to begin. In this simple introduction I will share with you everything you need to get started as a beekeeper. Whether you’re a brand-new

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Bees Found Sugar Water Part 2

My Queen Bee have a green dot on her. Why would the worker bees put a green dot on the queen? I must say it is very helpful for me as I can spot her pretty easy. 😂

Mistakes were made but I made it work. Check out this video:

Got the materials and now I will start building brood boxes, supers, and nucs. A video will be coming out within the next day or so depicting what I did right and what I've learned in this process. Stick

After making this contraption I had an issue with the alcohol dripping out while trying to take a sample of my bee-mite count. After thinking about it for awhile, I figured that after placing a half cup

I know winter haven't started, but I'm itching already for Spring. This spring I plan to grow my apiary and possibly catch a few swarms. I will also be splitting my hive. But this winter I think I will

Come see how horrified I was to discover this:

I'm getting ready for next spring. I plan to set as many swarm traps as possible to catch as many wild native bees as possible. My goal is to grow my apiary without making too much of a financial investment.

Hello! Exhibition mini apiary

Some of our longtime friends of the channel and volunteers stopped by today so we went in the hive to give them a sample of the perfect food. Unfortunately these kids are unaware of twhere food comes from

While walking the field next to my bee hive, I noticed that the bees were all over this wild plant that I was told is called goat weed. The field is full of this wild plant. I also noticed they were on

We live in northern Ohio and our winters can get cold. I've been reading about a different style of a beehive, called a horizontal hive. The horizontal hive plans that I found use 2x lumber instead of

Fairly new to the beekeeping hobby, only been in one year. In that time I've successfully caught two swarms out of our apple trees. A swarm is a group of bees that, for whatever reason, has taken a queen