Everybody calls propolis “bee glue”.Everyone knows how hard it can be to pry those beehive supers apart that the bees have glued together with propolis.Some say propolis is a very strong hive...
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So at the bee association meetings I keep hearing beekeepers talk about splitting their hives but the reasons and timing of splitting hives was not clear to me. My curiosity got the better of me...
10 Common Abnormal Beehive Conditions: (In Chronological Order)
So after researching many of the conditions a new beekeeper will encounter, I decided to figure out when these conditions would appear and what would be the next upcoming condition that would need...
I was listening to two beekeepers talking about “real” and “fake” honey and became curious.What where they were talking about and what made honey “real” or “fake”? This is what I...
Hummingbird Slumber: The Secret to Conserving Energy at Night
While looking out my kitchen window and watching the hummingbirds zip around my patio I wondered, if a hummingbird has a high metabolism during the day, how do they survive through the night? I did...
Honeybee Hive Climate Control: (Temperature, Humidity and More)
Everyone knows that honey bees regulate the temperature and humidity to optimum levels for the hive the entire year-round. I was just curious, how do they maintain constant hive temperature and...