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link to What’s the Ideal Frequency for Clearing Out Your Beehives?

What’s the Ideal Frequency for Clearing Out Your Beehives?

Beekeeping beginners may be eager to reap the rewards of their beekeeping efforts by harvesting honey from their hives. However, it is crucial to understand that taking too much honey, or taking it...

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link to Top Bar Beekeeping 101: A Comprehensive Guide to the Benefits and Techniques of this Buzzworthy Method!

Top Bar Beekeeping 101: A Comprehensive Guide to the Benefits and Techniques of this Buzzworthy Method!

In nature, bees typically build their hives in hollows and cavities in trees and logs. Climate permitting, they will also construct comb, which hangs down in the shape of a smooth catenary curve. To...

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link to Nucleus Hives 101: Exploring the Basics of Nucs in Beekeeping

Nucleus Hives 101: Exploring the Basics of Nucs in Beekeeping

A nuc, short for “nucleus”, is essentially a smaller colony of a few thousand bees. Just like any other, a nuc colony is centered around a queen, contains workers, drones, a brood, and honey –...

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link to Choosing the Perfect Location for Your Beekeeping Hives: 8 Critical Factors to Consider

Choosing the Perfect Location for Your Beekeeping Hives: 8 Critical Factors to Consider

Anyone planning to take up the beekeeping hobby must carefully consider where to locate beekeeping hives. After all, without successful hives there will be no beekeeping to speak of. Where and how...

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link to Opening Up Your Hive: When to Remove the Entrance Reducer

Opening Up Your Hive: When to Remove the Entrance Reducer

The entrance of a hive is usually at the bottom. In most designs, there is a floor placed immediately below the brood box, where the queen lives. The floor is open to the front to let the bees come...

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link to Sweet Success: Timing Your Honey Super Addition for Maximum Hive Productivity

Sweet Success: Timing Your Honey Super Addition for Maximum Hive Productivity

There is a very short answer to the question of when you should add honey supers to your hive - when the bees need more space. The best time to add a super to your hive is when 7 of the 10 frames...

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