Category: Beekeeping
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What Is The Official Name For Honey Bee Farming?
Beekeeping is an increasingly popular career, hobby, and even a profession these days because of how satisfying it is to care for the world’s most amazing insects (in my opinion, anyway!). But while we often refer to this profession as “beekeeping,” not everyone knows the official name of beekeeping. So what is the official name…
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Safe Bee Watering Station: Bees Need Water & 5 Best DIY Options
Like every living thing on the planet earth, bees have a certain need for water. It is important for every beekeeper to keep bees healthy and strong, and in order for them to really be that, apart from food, they need to be provided with fresh and drinkable water. Unfortunately, beekeepers always think about food,…
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How To Start Beekeeping? (A Complete Guide To Beekeeping)
Beekeeping is one of the noblest branches of agriculture. Although we have heard from many beekeepers in recent years that the seasons are bad for beekeepers, we should be optimistic if we are considering beekeeping. Not so long ago, a beekeeper could put bees in a hive and expect the bees to simply collect honey…
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What Does a Queen Bee Look Like – How To Find a Queen Bee?
Introduction Nature took special care of the bee world. In the hive, each insect performs its task, which was set before it by Mother Nature. Both worker bees and drones perform the function necessary for family life. At the head is the queen bee, the queen. As the only sexually mature female in a bee…
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Feeding Bees In Winter – Tips For Feeding
Bees generally like it to be really winter when it’s winter. What does this mean? Bees find it much harder to tolerate temperature variations, where one day outside temperature is -2 and the next day 12 or 15 degrees. As the temperature rises, the bees start to come out of the hive, but they have…
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When And How To Replace A Queen Bee In A Bee Colony
Regular replacement of older queen bees with younger ones is mandatory if we want a strong bee colony for the production of larger quantities of honey. This is why professional beekeepers replace her each year, and those with fewer hives-every other year. The queen bee is the generator of the bee colony. Her main function…
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How To Inspect Bee Colonies Without Bee Stings
How to make inspection of bee colonies without a single bee sting? Yes, it is possible. The biggest problem beekeepers, whether they are beginners or experienced, have to deal with is the inspection of bee hives which house aggressive and distressed bees. The situation is understandable. Even people, while being angry and upset, do not…
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Beekeeping And First Time Around So Many Bees
When you decide to pursue a new hobby or become interested in something new, you are usually asked “Why exactly would you be interested in that?” and “Have you ever had a similar hobby?” Sometimes it’s funny to me because people find everything we need in this fast-paced and stressful life surprising and useless. When…
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Beekeeping For Beginners – How To Earn A Decent Money From A Hobby
Beekeeping for beginners is not an easy or a simple job at all. Considering that the first year of beekeeping is the most difficult and unprofitable one, we will try to help those who are just entering the business with some useful pieces of advice. Experienced beekeepers may also find some of it useful. Bees…
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Robbing: The Bees Can Exactly Smell Death In A Hive!
When bees are healthy, even if it is a small colony in a healthy hive free of cracks and various cavities, and if their flight width is in line with the strength of the colony, robbing is very rare. There is almost no beekeeper who has not encountered the appearance of robbing inside one or…