Inevitability honey will crystallize. While it’s a simple matter to heat up one or two jars in a hot water bath on the stove, heating up many jars or buckets can be a problem. Bucket warmers (a simple heating strap that goes around the bucket of honey) don’t heat evenly and have no thermostat so …
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By Maurice Maeterlinck (1901)
translated by Alfred Sutro
This book is far from an instruction manual about beekeeping or even the life story and experiences of a beekeeper. Rather it’s describing bees in a rather grandiose manner that reminds me of the first time I attempted to read Shakespeare in the original Old English. …
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This is an interesting book written nearly a century ago. It contains a page on what he calls a one cent cage which significantly pre-dates my introduction to them at a class given by Sue Cobey at the Ohio State University where we used an identical mesh queen …
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(Plans for this incubator are available here and you can purchase controller or the whole incubator at our store).
This portable incubator is used to transport brood from the hive inside for grafting, transporting ripe queen cells to be placed in mating nucs, and to hold capped queen cells when weather prevents them …
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Swarm Removal Search by Zip Code – This is a simple plugin that allows any WordPress blog to user our swarm removal search feature on their own website.
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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and …
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To search for beekeepers near you who will remove swarms or established hives enter your zip code below.
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My day job is actually not beekeeping and often involves programming in one form or another, both at my former employer Kohli & Kaliher Associates and my current employer Data Business Systems of Colorado, Inc. Over the years I have written a few applications or plugins that may be usable by the general …
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