If you have been around beekeepers for any length of time, you have probably noticed that a lot of them have white paint lying around! Why is this? What’s the deal with beekeepers using white paint? If you have ever wondered about these questions please read on 🙂 5 Reasons Beekeepers Like Using White Paint … Read more
If you a beekeeper of any sort, your life is very often dominated by the beehive frames that you use. A lot of agonizing and deliberation will go on to decide which type of beehive frame to put in your precious beehive; Wood VS Plastic! This short article will hopefully give you some insight into … Read more
As beekeepers, we have all been there, right? All bright eyed and bushy tailed, brand new to the hobby and ready to ‘get our bee on’. Then, a few months later, after winter, we are left staring at a decimated bee colony and wondering why we got into this hobby in the first place 🙂 … Read more
Whether it be for a birthday, Christmas or random gift giving (because you really are THAT kind!), if you are in need of inspiration for gift ideas for a beekeeper, we have you covered. In this article, we will give you a handful of gift ideas that any beekeeper would surely love (I should know … Read more
A lot of beekeepers like buying NUCs of bees to start a new colony or supplement existing colonies, because when you get a good NUC it will often work better than buying regular packaged bees (something we talked about in our NUC vs Packaged Bees article!). However, it is not as easy as you may … Read more
Ask many beekeepers and they will tell you in no uncertain terms that the beekeeping suit one of the most important tools that they rely on every day out in the apiary. No-one wants to get stung up, but on the other hand, no-one wants to be stuck wearing an uncomfortable bee suit. This is … Read more
The interest in the hobby of beekeeping has grown in recent years, with many people becoming interested in the whole process of honey making and wondering how they can be a part of it! Books are a great way to learn about the hobby. Whether you are a beginning, novice, or expert apiarist, here are … Read more
Hives are the heart and soul of any beekeepers armory. This is literally the single most important beekeeping equipment you need to get right! Happy bees mean a happy beekeeper, and what houses those bees live in can be the key to achieving this. I am sure you want to live in a nice house! … Read more
When it comes to bees, for the safety of the queen, her eggs, and clean, safe to eat honey, the queen is typically excluded from the honey super. We all know being excluded isn’t nice but excluding the queen from half of her hive has a few advantages. Queen excluders have numerous advantages and disadvantages … Read more
A fairly new concept of beekeeping is the flow hive. First released in 2015 as a new and effective way of ethical beekeeping practices, reactions and reviews to the flow hive have been mixed. The first design of the flow hive has beekeepers sitting on the fence unable to decide whether flow hives are a … Read more
