Susan’s Gardening Tips

Honey harvesting tips…

Here are some excellent honey harvesting tips for all backyard beekeepers…

Collecting the Honey

Clearly the whole reason to set up, maintain, and stock a beehive is to be able to harvest honey. You will know that it’s time to harvest the honey once you take a look in one of your hives supers and discover that the frames are filled with honey combs that your bees have lined with wax caps.

Now all you have to do is take out the honey combs. Read the rest of this entry

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Today’s guest article explains how beekeepers prevent bees swarming. But the author also explains why bees swarm, and how it affects the production of honey.

How To Prevent Bees Swarming

The springtime is the time when honeybees reproduce. The natural method of reproduction for honey bees is known as swarming. The springtime swarming period often goes on more or less three weeks. Generally one swarm of honey bees separate and becomes two through the swarming period.

Since swarming usually means a loss of production, beekeepers try to discourage the behavior. A technique that beekeepers use to prevent swarming is to introduce new bees every springtime to replace the bees that they turned out of the hives the previous autumn.

Another method often used by beekeepers to prevent swarming is to create a Read the rest of this entry

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