This easy-to-make, no-cook candy board works with a moisture quilt, providing food, insulation, ventilation, and moisture control all in one.
pollen patties, varroa mites treatments and hive beetle traps, if needed. These costs are negligible. Even if the beekeeper has to replace an entire colony or repair hives, the annual maintenance cost should only be about $300 for two hives. ...
Squash plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. Bees must transfer the pollen from the male flowers to the female. Don’t use insecticides in the garden or you will risk killing off your pollinators. If you don’t have bees, you can hand-transfer pollen with a sm...
1. Provide the colony with 1:1 sugar syrup, high fructose corn syrup mix or Pro Sweet to encourage the bees to build wax comb. 2. Feed pollen substituting patties (Ultra Bee or Bee Pro) and syrup until they no longer consume it. 3. Increase the size of the entrance reducer when cong...
Grandmother taught me to select a grade of meat with enough fat to give it a good taste but still keep its size. I’d watch her push it through an old hand grinder and lovingly massage it into patties, never packing it too hard, before cooking it to medium rare. When the burgers rea...
Naturally, many Americans will be planning to stay home and restrict dining out, so we can expect to see plenty of empty restaurants, but delivery drivers are not the salvation — rather, they’re the pollen bees of the virus, as they fly from delivery to delivery, potentially spreading sic...
Bees must transfer the pollen from the male flowers to the female. Don’t use insecticides in the garden or you will risk killing off your pollinators. If you don’t have bees, you can hand-transfer pollen with a small artist’s paintbrush. Squashes have separate male and female flowers...