Honeybees need nectar to make honey. Without honey stores, the bees would never make it through the winter, and you won’t be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor either. Honeybees spend spring and summer months foraging for nectar, bringing...
Honeybees need a year-round water source of bee, but during the summer when temperatures soar, having a reliable water source can mean the difference between life and death for the colony. Bees need a water source that doesn’t go dry...
Sweet Rewards of the Honey Harvest As an apiarist, you’ve made quite an investment in the equipment and supplies needed to successfully raise bees, especially if this is your first season. With the bees working overtime to take advantage of...
As you do your hive inspections and find that your boxes are almost completely full – inspection shows that 80% or more of the frames are filled with healthy brood and honey, you have a decision to make. You can...
What are supers? Bees use supers to store honey, pollen and brood. Supers come in varying heights and sizes. A deep-sized super is 9-5/8” in height and can weigh 90 pounds when full. A medium-sized super is three-fourths the capacity of...
In our last blog post, we went over a few of the different supplies that are found in beehives and how they can be beneficial to both bees and humans. We reviewed just how helpful beeswax and pollen both are when it comes to what they provide for both bees and humans. While these two extra ingredients are extremely beneficial, they are not the only ones that we use from the hive. In our post today we are going to visit three more components of the beehive, one of them being the most commonly thought of ingredient: honey. Aside from that, we will review the ways that royal jelly and propolis play a part in the honey making process and how they are used long after the hive has done its job.
