
The Honey Bee Solution to Varroa | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Dec 27, 2024 · Great presentation from Mr. Steve Riley from this year's National Honey Show just dropped. He and Dr. Stephen Martin host and maintain varroaresistant.uk and work closely with the …
Colony Loss Outlook 2025 - 2026 | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Oct 14, 2025 · What do you plan to avoid being a statistic of another winter like 2024 - 2025? Locally I hear people speak of abandoning Apivar and becoming OA curious. Many still had not planned mite …
Build It Yourself - Equipment Plans in PDF format
Mar 9, 2021 · Solid, bee-tight hive equipment is necessary because any secondary openings will be eagerly sought by bees to avoid passing through the pollen trap grid. Two pollen trap designs are …
BeeMax Hive pros and cons | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
May 30, 2003 · Has anyone here used the BeeMax hives? What are the pros and cons? And which do you like best now: foam or wood? Thanks in advance. New Guy, wanting to do it right about the first …
Primal Bee hive | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Jul 31, 2025 · The core idea behind the Primal Bee hive is thermal efficiency. Most standard hives, even insulated ones, lose a huge amount of heat through poor design and box geometry. That heat loss …
Mar 23, 2015 · HONEY BEE SWARM TRAP DETAILS SWARM TRAP IS MADE FROM 1⁄2” CDX EXTERIOR PLYWOOD. FINISHED INSIDE DIMENSIONS ARE: 18 1/4” WIDE x 7 1/2” DEEP x 18” …
IRS Clasification - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Sep 19, 2010 · What do you classify your bee keeping as? For IRS taxes is it agg other is it agg. Are we farmers? Or are bee's live stock. What do you use for your classifications? My CPA does not know …
Swarm trap size - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Feb 11, 2016 · Ok I have spent a lot of time researching swarm trap sizes. It appears the only university research was limited to a study by Cornell (Sealey and Marsh). They test 3 sizes 10, 40 and 100 …
Beekeeping in Jamaica | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Jul 8, 2012 · Hanover Bee Farmers Co-operative Society, Ltd. Early this week I had the chance to visit with some of the founders of the Hanover Bee Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd. The cooperative is …
sugar brick recipe | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
Sep 1, 2020 · looking for an easy sugar brick recipe. i tried searching the archives but didnt have much luck. if i remember there was one that was 5 or 10 lbs of sugar and a small amount of water, put it on …