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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...

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Bees By Invitation Only77

Miss Daisy's Quilting Bee

In many parts of the country, the old-fashioned quilting bee is a thing of the past. it is an activity many young people have only heard of, even in today's rurual communities. It has gone to keep company...

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Completely heal wounds, infections, rashes, even ulcers: Raw Honey

Raw honey is absolutely amazing at healing the most severe skin ailment, and even ulcer, better than modern medicine. It's power has been known for thousands of years, and scientific information on raw honey can be found easily. Sounds strange, but try it out!

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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
This stingless bee (arrowed) is much smaller than the commercial honey bee.62

Stingless Bees

There are several hundred species of stingless social bees world wide -- quite different from the better known commercial honey bees. Most build resinous nests inside hollow trees. Their tangy honey is a gourmet delight.

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The History of Bee Keeping

Beehives and beekeeping are of great antiquity, and the products of the bee were of an importance in earlier economies that we would hardly realize.  Prehistoric man was well acquainted with wild bees and...

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The Roman and the Bee: Land of Wax and Honey

Thyme honey was a favorite with Ancient Romans who disregarded heather and granulated honey. Honey served many different purposes, and its bi-product, wax, also had many ingenious uses.Honey was used like we...

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The Vanishing Bees, a Quietly Developing Crisis

In recent years there has been an alarming disappearance of honey bee colonies throughout the United States. It has been referred to by beekeepers as CCD or colony collapse disorder. Until recently it was a...

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Beekeeping For Beginners - What You Need To Know To Get Started

Beekeeping is an ancient endeavor. People have been involved in beekeeping for 1000's of years in one form or another, but modern beekeeping came about when the Langstroth hive was developed in 1878. This...

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Beginning with Bees

All you ever wanted to know about starting to keep bees by someone who has (just) done it.

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