How To Do Stuff
The following posts contain “how-to” information:
- 17 costly beekeeping mistakes and how to avoid them
- How to keep bees like a scientist
- How to light a smoker so it stays lit
- How to use a swarm seducer to catch a swarm as it leaves the hive
- How to fit deep frames into medium boxes
- Winter hive check: how to help your bees thrive
- How to plug the holes in your beehives
- How to make no-cook candy boards for wintering bees
- How to make value-subtracted honey
- How to make a steam melter for beeswax
- How to clean wireware
- How to build a slatted rack
- How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden
- How to do an oxalic dribble, even on cold days
- How to feed syrup in winter
- How to feed bees in freezing weather
- How to make a removable bee cozy
- Shaking larvae from their beds
- Fall management of honey bee colonies
- How to recognize a nectar dearth & safeguard your bees
- How to fix a laying worker hive
- My bees left! How to prevent absconding
- How to use a quilt with a candy board
- How to super for section honey
- The minimalist guide to winter feeding
- How to get stung 22 times in one place
- How to wrap a hive to overcome cold weather
- How to move a bumble bee nest
- How to make an awesome nesting block
- How to feed crystallized honey
- See an innovative and stunning water feature for thirsty bees
- Another take on Taranov
- The great divide: a Taranov split
- How to use a swarm guard
- How to clean up from Nosema apis
- Ick! Mold in my hive!
- How to make a simple split
- How to attract bumbles to an artificial nest
- How to cut comb honey
- Partially capped frames: what to do with uncapped honey?
- The secret to brushing bees safely
- How I photograph bees
- Pyramiding: getting bees to move up
- How to make an overnight split
- Managing packages and swarms
- Seven types of beekeeping advice to avoid
- How to build a native bee block
- Another rendition of rendering beeswax
- Doing the Mississippi splits
- How to move a hive any distance
- How to kill bees with soapy water: non-toxic but risky
- How to make a screened inner cover
- How to open the brood nest
- Monitoring mites with a sticky board
- How to stop robbing honey bees
- How to combine colonies using newspaper
- How to prepare your hives for winter: a checklist
- Crushing and straining . . . and moaning
- How to move a hive
- How to remove propolis from your camera
- A quick way to paint supers and ekes
- What size hardware cloth is best for bee hives?
- How to over-winter a nuc
- How to keep queen bees in reserve
- How to avoid squishing bees
- Splitting the top-bar hive with a shook swarm
- Brood nest inspections made easy
- How to use an eke in a bee hive
- 8 ways to attract bees to your garden
- Why did my bees leave their hive?
- How to start a queen in a two-frame nuc
- Tricks for using a baggie feeder: it takes practice
- How to mark a queen
- My design for a bait hive
- How to make starter strips
- How to make follower boards for a Langstroth hive
- How many frames should you put in a Langstroth box?
- How to assemble a bee box
- How to make protein-enriched candy boards
- How to make a cut-down split
- How to make a walkaway split to build more colonies
- How to start multiple hives from a swarm-control split
- How to make a swarm-control split
- How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive
- How to get started in beekeeping
- How to safely store empty supers & frames in winter
- How to keep 2:1 syrup from crystallizing
- The how and why of bee beards
- How to convert sugar syrup to a different ratio
- How to determine the purity of honey
- How to prevent swarming with a Taranov board
- Converting Langstroth frames to foundationless
- Using the Cloake board method to raise queens
- How to prevent moldy syrup in bee feeders
- Reversing brood boxes: when and why
- How to install a package of bees
- Update on how to eat comb honey
- How to find your queen bee
- How to use a baggie feeder
- How to eat comb honey: a unique taste treat
- How to use a slatted rack
- Tips for planting a pollinator garden
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