Honey has become the new gold in the world of exports with ever-increasing imports and rates of consumption. The US per capita consumption of pure honey consisted of about 1.4 pounds in 2018. This figure is at an all-time high...
Everyone in the business knows that Americans have got a real taste for honey. Starting with sweet breakfast options to tasty snacks throughout the day, the average number of households that consume honey has significantly grown to include more and...
Hive inspections are always important, but as the weather warms up, you’ll find that they're more important than ever. As we leave the cold of winter behind and head into warmer weather which translates into swarming season, every beekeeper needs to...
In an earlier post, The Beekeeper's Guide to Swarm Prevention - Part 2, we stated that the Carniolan species of honeybees were more prone to swarming activities. Yet, when you purchase a NUC (live bees) from us, this is the...
In our last blog post, we began a discussion of queen cells and found that there were two different types — supersedure cells and swarm cells. Although both produce new queens, the queens are created for distinctly different reasons. In that...
In this blog post, we’ll begin to look at queen cells – special cells the worker bees create to produce a new queen. You heard that right! It’s the workers, not the queen, who decides when it’s time for a...
