Beekeepers Blog

  Regardless of how you protect your bees' hard earned honeycomb from wax moths, it's critical! As soon as you've harvested, and let the bees clean your supers for 24 hours, it's time to store them until next year. 1....

Return supers the same day after extracting in the late evening, thus allowing the hive to clean them up overnight. Supers placed back on hives in the middle of the day smell strongly of honey, and encourage robbing. If robbing...

It's always confusing...how many boxes should I have on my hive going into winter? How many is too many? What do the bees actually need? These are common questions! The video above describes each configuration, along with the pros and cons...