Q: What is the best way to stimulate drawing foundation and is there a time you would not want to do this? -A A: Feeding sugar syrup will result in increased brood production and wax gland stimulation for comb building. I would not do it…
Q: What is the best treatment in your opinion/experience for treating mites? A: This is a tough question to answer. But since you asked my opinion, here goes! I do not like to treat my hives with chemicals. Rather I use two other…
Q: I’m new to beekeeping and I was wondering if you can collect honey the first year or if it should be left alone? -T A: I appreciate your question. The answer depends on the time you started your hive in the spring and…
Q: What is your preferred form of grafting queens? What tool do you like best? -K, A: Each person grafting queens usually settles on a method that fits their style. I know there are many non grafting methods available for a person to…
Q: Why does it seem to take them forever to draw comb on a frame (even with added wax) but it only takes a day or so to build a ton of burr comb in open places? -K A: Let me say first…
I was reading an old bee magazine which discussed Chickens and Bees. Both were kept in the barn yard to the advantage of both the chickens and the bees. Unless a chicken is range free to roam, it has little to do with honey bees…
Dana Stahlman was kind enough to make this presentation at the Cherokee County Beekeepers Club on May 18th, 2017. He is also kind enough to allow us to publish the contents of his presentation here for you. Enjoy. Click here to open the presentation: Cherokee…
The University of Michigan students who conducted the study suspect that the large amount of vacant or idle land in Detroit may boost the bumblebee population by providing nesting sites and flowers for food. There is certainly a correlation between Bumblebees and other native bees,…
I learned beekeeping working for my dad and uncle. I don’t know how many times I was called a “dumb ass”. My dad especially got on my case even though I was still too young to pick up a heavy deep full of honey. I…
Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele … Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I used to have to wash my…
