Management Episodes

Why on earth would honey bee foragers go out on a freezing day in winter to collect water? Ice and snow everywhere, but there the…

When you’ve been keeping bees for decades, sometimes you do things because that’s the way you’ve always done them, right? But the…

Does your state Agriculture Department have a bulletin they share with everybody on the phenology, or bloom dates, of the wild fl…

Post-harvest time is a good time to look for wax moth in your colonies. Believe it or not, wax moths are around pretty much all o…

Towards the end of the season, it’s a good idea to take a look at the equipment and other management tricks you’ve been using all…

How much honey do you leave for the bees this winter? Like lots of things in beekeeping, it depends. Since “all beekeeping is loc…

It’s hot out there and it looks like it isn’t going to cool off for most of us for awhile. Also, since mite treatments should be …

If you have a colony of honey bees, chances are, at some point, some year, that colony will become queenless. If you do not reali…

Swarm season is fun and exhilarating. Much has been written about swarms. They’ve been studied, photographed, pursued and just… w…

On today’s episode, Jim and Jeff Ott (from Beekeeping Today Podcast), discuss the value and use of the ‘love it or hate it” piece…

After you get through the winter, spring buildup, swarming season and the ever present varroa, you can sit back and smell the flo…

Pretty much every beekeeper, at one time or another, ends up with a queen that’s not doing what they think she should be doing or…

It doesn’t take long after getting into beekeeping and then repeatedly, as long as you have beekeeping equipment laying around or…

Jim’s beeyard is the center of attention this week, because his bees were bothering his wife and a very patient, longtime neighbo…

Package season is about over for 2022. Perhaps thankfully too, depending on where in the country you live. Installing packages do…