Learn the proper way to push beehive frames using your hive tool to avoid crushing bees and maintain hive integrity. A step-by-step guide for beekeepers.
Learn how to prioritize safety and efficiency with frame grips. Secure handling minimizes bee disturbance and enhances inspection control for beekeepers.
Discover the essential beekeeping equipment beyond the hive, including hive tools, protective gear, and harvesting equipment for safe and effective colony management.
Discover how Frame Grips make hive inspections safer and faster by providing a secure, one-handed grip on heavy frames, reducing stress for you and your bees.
Discover the key uses of a hive tool: prying apart propolis-sealed hives, scraping debris, inspecting brood, and ensuring beekeeper safety. Master your hive inspections.
Learn how a foundation mold helps beekeepers create pure, sustainable beeswax foundation from harvest cappings, ensuring hive health and self-sufficiency.
Discover how a frame perch secures removed frames, prevents damage to the queen and comb, and creates a safer, more efficient hive inspection workflow.
Learn the 4 core components of a wax roller: frame, rollers, pattern, and handle. Understand how each part ensures strong, bee-accepted wax foundation.
Learn why monitoring varroa mite levels is crucial for effective beekeeping. Prevent resistance, protect bees, and make data-driven treatment decisions.
Learn the most reliable method to confirm a queen's capture during a swarm collection by observing bee behavior, not by sight. Achieve higher success rates.
Learn to adjust connection strength by controlling preload tension with turnbuckles. Avoid the risks of overtensioning and undertensioning for safe, stable systems.
Learn the step-by-step process for introducing a new queen bee using a cage. Ensure colony acceptance through pheromone acclimation and the candy plug release method.
Learn the key symptoms of Varroa Mite Syndrome (VMS), including a dwindling bee population, spotty brood pattern, and visible mites, to protect your apiary.
A nucleus colony (nuc) is a small, complete starter hive with a laying queen, brood, and food stores. Learn how nucs provide a head start for new beekeepers and apiary management.
Learn what phoretic mites are, their preferred hiding spots on bees, and why their presence signals a critical Varroa mite infestation that requires immediate action.