Emergency Feeding When you find the need to feed a weak colony in the midst of winter, there are may things you must be careful of. The bees need to be able to access the food when clustered. It only takes a short cold spell for the bees to starve if the...
Queen Rearing using the Nicot System and Cloake Board Podcast of Small-Scale Queen Rearing can be found -> Here. The following is the method I used for raising small quantities of queens. It uses a Nicot no graft system that I purchased from BetterBee. When I...
Queen Introduction using a Double Screen Board My preferred method of queen introduction is with the use of a double screened board. The advantage of this method is, unlike most other methods, you always have the original queen to fall back on if your new queen is not...
We first shared the barrel top bar hive in 2007. Since that time there are a few copy cats claiming their original design. Take note that they never provide pictures with an established colony like we do. Featured in the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of Backwoodsman...