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How To Move A Colony of Bees

It is a difficult task to move a bee colony but it can be done It needs to be done in the Spring when the population of the colony will be smaller and the bees have time to prepare for winter. Here are two possible ways to move a honeybee colony that has established its self in a wall.

11 comments    education bees beekeeping
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Choose Your Garden - The Honey Bee Garden

I've written a good bit about honey bees in the past, mostly because saving the honeybee is important to me and should be to everyone else -- unless you plan on starving. They are in danger and need our help....

17 comments    garden herbs honey
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Bee-keeping for beginners. Why keep bees?

Bee keeping is fascinating, ecologically essential and produces pounds of deliciously healthy honey. Recent worldwide bee colony losses have worried experts who are calling on ordinary people to set up hives in their back gardens.

0 comments    food france honey
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Extracting North Carolina Honey

My wife and my middle two kids (ages 16 and 13) are certified North Carolina beekeepers. They have several hives out in the garden, and every year in the May and June time frame is when we harvest the honey....

14 comments    honey honey bees raw honey
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Bees. What plants to grow to make Bees Happy.

Bumblebee's need flowers to collect from - March to September. Nectar feeds the adult bee, pollen is collected to feed the young. Here you will find lists of plants and flowers that are popular with...

4 comments    flowers plants herbs
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How You Can Help The Honey Bees

Imagine Thanksgiving dinner without cranberry sauce and pumpkin pies. Summers without strawberry shortcake and watermelon. Burgers without pickles, hot dogs without relish. Chips with no guacamole. Chinese...

5 comments    garden honey bees
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Beginning Beekeeping

The decision of whether or not to keep bees is a personal one. Not everyone is cut out to keep small, stinging insects, even if they love honey. Bees require a lot of attention, especially if you're...

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What's killing the honey bees?

There are about 250,000 species of flowering plants on earth that require pollination. Wind, gravity, water, birds, bats and insects are the forces that accomplish pollination. This process accidentally...

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Bee Hive Structure - How It Is Constructed?

Bee Hive Structure Honey bees live in a complex structure known as a bee hive. This article is about artificial and natural bee hives so that you will better understand their structure and purpose. Bee...

0 comments    advice how honey
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Removal Tips for Underground Yellow Jackets and Nests

You're mowing the lawn when suddenly, you are covered in stinging little yellow jackets. Your first thought is to run, and the second is where is the nest and how do I get rid of it? Unlike honeybees, these...

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