The notion that honey is “bee vomit” comes from the fact that bees chew and spit up nectar before it is made into honey. Most people agree with this assumption because it is a substance that goes down their esophagus into a second stomach then is forced back up, which is what vomit is. However,…
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Source: Dengarden Beekeepers have many decisions to make when starting out, and one of the most significant is the size boxes to use for hive bodies and supers. The nomenclature within this component of beekeeping can get confusing because there are many ways to refer to different hive boxes. The boxes can be “hive bodies”…
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Are you tired of mowing the lawn AND do you want to help the bees? A Minnesota program introduced in 2019, called “Lawns to Legumes”, allocated $900,000 for residents to adopt bee-friendly lawns to protect the rusty patched bumblebee, which has been endangered since 2017. What is Lawns to Legumes? With Lawns to Legumes, residents…
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One of the choices beekeepers have to make when starting out is what size frames to get for their hive. The most common configuration in the United States is a combination of 10-frame deep boxes and 10-frame medium boxes, however 8-frames have recently become more popular. As it says in the name, 10-frame boxes hold…
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