Central Beekeepers Alliance

Deep Supers Wanted

Bob Seaman of Parkindale, NB, is looking for used deep supers. If you’ve got any deep supers you’d like to sell, give him a call at (506) 756-2796, email gsdluv (at) nb.sympatico.ca or just leave a message in the comments for this post.

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Don’t Try This At Home: Beard of Bees

It takes a person who is really comfortable with bees to do the old “Beard of Bees” trick! Here, 61-year-old commercial beekeeper Harold Pease, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, shows how it’s done. Tying the queen in her cage (a prescription medicine bottle with holes punched in it) around his neck, Pease smeared a few drops [...]

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Planting a Honey Trail

A greenhouse operator near Saginaw, Michigan, has an idea that he thinks may help the stressed-out honeybees — a “honey trail” of high-nectar crops. If the bees have an ample supply of forage throughout the season, as John Dusek sees it, the colonies will be stronger and better able to deal with pests, disease, pollution, [...]

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