Building bee boxes

Making a quilt box for your beehives can help the colonies avoid problems with excess moisture. Easy and economical to build.

Build a Honey Bee Bait Hive: If you're a beekeeper, or an aspiring beekeeper, you can catch your own honeybees using a bait hive. Learn how to build a simple swarm trap from inexpensive plywood. Once built, the swarm trap can be hung from a tree to catch wild honeybees. The t…

This is a simple guide for the homesteader who wishes to keep bees for the sheer joy of it without spending the earth on vast amounts of equipment. For those wishing to hear a little more about more reasons for using this sort of hive then please take a look at my

Beekeepers who split hives to prevent swarming will want to know how to make their own nucleus colony (nuc) box. Learn what a nuc box is and how to make one.

Start your beekeeping hobby by building this Langstroth beehive. It is much easier than you think.

Sometime in the next week or two thirty thousand bees are going to show up at the farm. Thirty thousand. That's... not an insignificant number of bees, you guys. And heading in to the weekend my be...

Hive Components (UT Extension) Traditional hive parts are made from wood. The design and dimension of hive parts are based on the concept of bee space. Bee space was first recognized and promoted…

After the bee shed comes the bee house. However, in a break from tradition, this is a post about solitary bees rather than honey bees. Solitary bees include things like the Red Mason Bee. These were very common where I lived in the Midlands but this species of solitary bee is very much rarer in Scotland, although they are present in parts of Fife. Red mason bee … Steven Falk book I’ve no idea what’s about in this area of Fife so I’m putting up a couple of solitary bee houses to see if I ca