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If you have several colonies of bees in your yard, feeding a weaker hive during a dearth can set off robbing – which can totally wipe out weaker hives. One solution is to use an “open feeder”. This is a super easy DIY project and all you need is a plastic pail with a snap on lid and a drill. All You Need Is, Feeding Bees, Plastic Pail, Bee Hive Plans, Bee Do, Bee Farm

All You Need Is

If you have several colonies of bees in your yard, feeding a weaker hive during a dearth can set off robbing – which can totally wipe out weaker hives. One solution is to use an “open feeder”. This is a super easy DIY project and all you need is a plastic pail with a snap on lid and a drill.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

When making your own health and beauty products, beeswax can be a very useful ingredient. When thinking of beeswax, think waterproof and lending a solid texture at room/body temperature. Sunscreen Recipe, Homemade Sunscreen, Homemade Deodorant, Olive Virgin Oil, Extra Virgin Oil, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Suncreen, Liquid Oil

Sunscreen Recipe

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Homemade Deodorant

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Extra Virgin Oil

Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

When making your own health and beauty products, beeswax can be a very useful ingredient. When thinking of beeswax, think waterproof and lending a solid texture at room/body temperature.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you are lucky enough to have a set of old-fashioned wicker or bent willow garden furniture, you can use this Beeswax Sealant Recipe for to keep it in top shape. Outdoor Wicker Furniture, Garden Furniture, Outdoor Decor, Willow Garden, Pint Jars, Tin Can, Sealant, Beeswax

Outdoor Wicker Furniture

Garden Furniture

If you are lucky enough to have a set of old-fashioned wicker or bent willow garden furniture, you can use this Beeswax Sealant Recipe for to keep it in top shape.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

To keep mason bees, all you really have to do is provide some prime real estate by building a mason bee ‘hotel.’ These hotels replicate the type of little spaces that mason bees love! Live Animals, Work With Animals, Farm Animals, Orchard Bees, California Condor, Solitary Bees, Mason Bees

Work With Animals

California Condor

To keep mason bees, all you really have to do is provide some prime real estate by building a mason bee ‘hotel.’ These hotels replicate the type of little spaces that mason bees love!

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Capturing swarms is a very exciting way to get more bees for your apiary and it’s much easier than you may have realized. Bee Swarm, Bee House, Birds And The Bees, Bee Party, Apiary, Goat Farming, Hobby Farms, Medicinal Herbs

Birds And The Bees

Medicinal Herbs

Capturing swarms is a very exciting way to get more bees for your apiary and it’s much easier than you may have realized.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

When swarm season comes, you never know when you’ll get the call for bee rescue and there’s no worse feeling than missing the opportunity to catch a swarm because it left before you arrived. Bee Suit, Bee Removal, Buzzy Bee, Curious Kids, Bad Feeling, Propolis, Hives

When swarm season comes, you never know when you’ll get the call for bee rescue and there’s no worse feeling than missing the opportunity to catch a swarm because it left before you arrived.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you’re looking to increase the number of bees you keep, a swarm box is an inexpensive way to collect additional colonies. All you need is some scrap plywood, 4 to 5 frames and some essential oil. Honey Bee Swarm, Honey Bee Hives, Honey Bees Keeping, Bee Keeping, How To Start Beekeeping, Bee Friendly Garden

Honey Bee Swarm

Honey Bee Hives

Honey Bees Keeping

How To Start Beekeeping

Bee Friendly Garden

If you’re looking to increase the number of bees you keep, a swarm box is an inexpensive way to collect additional colonies. All you need is some scrap plywood, 4 to 5 frames and some essential oil.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you have multiple hives you want to elevate, you may want to consider a hive stand. You could easily fit four production colonies on just one hive stand, and if you’re using only nucs, you could put even more. Bee Hive Stand, Great Videos, Homesteading, Colonial, Standing, Building

If you have multiple hives you want to elevate, you may want to consider a hive stand. You could easily fit four production colonies on just one hive stand, and if you’re using only nucs, you could put even more.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you want to increase your chance of successfully attracting a swarm, you can add an attractant to your bait hive. Lemongrass is very similar to the queen bee’s scent. Honeybees find the mixture of lemongrass and beeswax irresistible. Honey Bees, Lemongrass Oil, Lemongrass Essential Oil, Honey Health Benefits, Farm Business

Lemongrass Essential Oil

Honey Health Benefits

If you want to increase your chance of successfully attracting a swarm, you can add an attractant to your bait hive. Lemongrass is very similar to the queen bee’s scent. Honeybees find the mixture of lemongrass and beeswax irresistible.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you could choose just one entrance that would be best suited for your bees, which would you choose? A top entrance or a bottom entrance? If you said a bottom entrance, you may be surprised by the many benefits of using a top entrance either exclusively or in addition to a bottom entrance. I Love Bees, Bee Art, Bee Hives, Save The Bees, Bees Knees, Native Plants

If you could choose just one entrance that would be best suited for your bees, which would you choose? A top entrance or a bottom entrance? If you said a bottom entrance, you may be surprised by the many benefits of using a top entrance either exclusively or in addition to a bottom entrance.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

This nontoxic, beeswax-based wood preservative will extend the life of wooden garden beds without contaminating your soil. It forms a barrier that prevents rot-causing moisture from seeping into the wood. Raised Flower Beds, Raised Garden Beds Diy, Raised Beds, Landscaping With Rocks, Backyard Landscaping, Wooden Garden Bed, Wood Sealant, Garden Boxes

Raised Flower Beds

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Backyard Landscaping

Wooden Garden Bed

This nontoxic, beeswax-based wood preservative will extend the life of wooden garden beds without contaminating your soil. It forms a barrier that prevents rot-causing moisture from seeping into the wood.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Making nucleus hives or “nucs” is a good way to expand your apiary without spending a lot of money and without the worry of introducing Africanized genetics from packaged bees. Marigolds In Garden, Bee Keeping Supplies, Beekeeping

Marigolds In Garden

Bee Keeping Supplies

Making nucleus hives or “nucs” is a good way to expand your apiary without spending a lot of money and without the worry of introducing Africanized genetics from packaged bees.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

One of my very first colonies was a booming top bar hive that became our first “honey cow” for the backyard. I love watching the bees work the comb down the length of the hive. If you build one, make an observation window so you can check them out as they work. Top Bar Hive, Bar Top, Ironing Center, Standing Desk, Storage

One of my very first colonies was a booming top bar hive that became our first “honey cow” for the backyard. I love watching the bees work the comb down the length of the hive. If you build one, make an observation window so you can check them out as they work.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Scandinavian “bee hotels” designs make harvesting the wax and honey simpler than the traditional boxes that we see in the United States. In Europe, the design looks similar to a small cottage but is designed that way only for aesthetics. Bee Colony, Seasonal Allergies, Garden Veggies, Good Environment, Natural Honey, Queen Bees

Seasonal Allergies

Good Environment

Scandinavian “bee hotels” designs make harvesting the wax and honey simpler than the traditional boxes that we see in the United States. In Europe, the design looks similar to a small cottage but is designed that way only for aesthetics.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Now is the perfect time to get a jump start on spring time preparations by building equipment like frames. Using a frame jig is an excellent way to build lots of frames and cut your work time down considerably. Wallpaper Online, Hd Wallpaper, Stingless Bees, Worker Bee, Black Bee, Bee Eater

Wallpaper Online

Now is the perfect time to get a jump start on spring time preparations by building equipment like frames. Using a frame jig is an excellent way to build lots of frames and cut your work time down considerably.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

If you are one of the many people going green with cleaning products, you may be interested in using beeswax and olive oil for your furniture polish. Diy Furniture Polish, Beeswax Furniture Polish, Beeswax Polish, Beeswax Recipes, Polish Recipes, Diy Natural Products, Woodworking

Diy Furniture Polish

Beeswax Furniture Polish

Beeswax Recipes

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If you are one of the many people going green with cleaning products, you may be interested in using beeswax and olive oil for your furniture polish.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

As your container candle burns and melts, the flame will flicker through the glass, illuminating your walls in delicate firelight. Homemade Beeswax Candles, Diy Candles, Candle Decorations, Clean Burning Candle, Clean Candle, Candle Kits, Candle Making Supplies

Homemade Beeswax Candles

Candle Decorations

Clean Burning Candle

Candle Making Supplies

As your container candle burns and melts, the flame will flicker through the glass, illuminating your walls in delicate firelight.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

While you can purchase all the equipment you’ll need to begin keeping bees, hands-on folks may prefer to build their own hives. Honey Shop

While you can purchase all the equipment you’ll need to begin keeping bees, hands-on folks may prefer to build their own hives.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Beehive art is becoming more and more popular in the bee yard. Painting hive bodies a boring white was the norm when I started beekeeping 20 years ago. Painted Bee Hives, Bee Hives Boxes, Beehive Art, Bee Houses, Honey Packaging, Eggshell Paint

Painted Bee Hives

Bee Hives Boxes

Honey Packaging

Beehive art is becoming more and more popular in the bee yard. Painting hive bodies a boring white was the norm when I started beekeeping 20 years ago.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

There are many ways to allow condensation to escape in your hive. The trick is to create a situation where you allow moisture to escape without taking the heat with it. One solution is to make a moisture-wicking pillow. Places In Europe, Winter Diy

Places In Europe

There are many ways to allow condensation to escape in your hive. The trick is to create a situation where you allow moisture to escape without taking the heat with it. One solution is to make a moisture-wicking pillow.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Hive Top Feeders are a great resource to help feed your bees, even during the start of the winter months. Learn how easy it is to set up and utilize. What Is A Bee, Video Sponsor, Bee Hive, Feeder, Agriculture

Hive Top Feeders are a great resource to help feed your bees, even during the start of the winter months. Learn how easy it is to set up and utilize.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

It’s important to support pollinators of all kinds and we can do this by providing a variety of housing to not only Honey Bees but other species of pollinators as well. Treating Bee Stings, Backyard Farming, Wild Bees

Treating Bee Stings

Backyard Farming

It’s important to support pollinators of all kinds and we can do this by providing a variety of housing to not only Honey Bees but other species of pollinators as well.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees

Siting your yard means picking where you’re going to set up your hive. It’s an important first step on your path toward becoming a beekeeper. Windbreak, Earth News, Gardenista, The Next Step, Rural Area, Best Sites

Siting your yard means picking where you’re going to set up your hive. It’s an important first step on your path toward becoming a beekeeper.

Keeping Backyard Bees

Keeping Backyard Bees