As I was digging in the dirt outside in the garden, I noticed all the honeybees buzzing around my August blooms. Without these winged wonders, our gardens certainly wouldn’t be as beautiful and bountiful as they are right now. They fly around, pollinating and working hard for us nature lovers all day long. I’m always […]
The Best Flowers to Attract Bees
If you do not have a beehive but want to attract pollinators to your garden, or if you have a hive and are trying to keep your bees well supplied, planting flowers and vegetables that appeal to bees is a wonderful thing to do. This can help to ensure the future of these little insects […]
Natural Bee Sting Remedies
If you keep bees you are going to get stung once and awhil. What you might not know is that relief from bee stings is available from some unlikely sources. If you do get stung, first make sure that you extract the stinger and clean the area. Removing the stinger as quickly as possible will […]
How to Help Bees Today
How to help bees today: You and I can make a difference in the dying and sick bee population. The news has reported on our worldwide declining bee population but the problem persists. But the problem is still fixable, if we all put in a little more effort to help these amazing pollinators. So how […]
Managing Your Top Bar Beehive
When keeping bees in a top bar hive, you need to check on them regularly and make sure that the hive is in good health. Top bar hives require some more attention than the Langstroth variety because the bees may start making comb in a manner that makes it difficult to harvest, and you have […]
Making Brood Comb
Once your bees are settled into their new hive, they go to work in earnest on building comb. Not all bee comb is going to produce honey, in fact when a colony starts to make comb it is primarily brood comb. Brood comb is where the queen bee lives and lays her eggs, which propagate […]
