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How Beekeepers Can Prevent Swarming This Summer
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How Beekeepers Can Prevent Swarming This Summer

Late spring and early summer are a honey bee colony’s most productive times. While this productivity is excellent for your honey bees’ health and honey stores, it can also lead to bee swarms. Sometimes, these swarms are …
Mann Lake 5 years ago
What Should Beekeepers Know About Queen Bees?
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What Should Beekeepers Know About Queen Bees?

A honey bee queen is the most iconic member of the hive. As the only egg-laying female, she takes sole responsibility for the colony’s reproduction. She also bears a unique scent that keeps the other members of the…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
How To Keep Your Honey Bees Healthy
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How To Keep Your Honey Bees Healthy

Your honey bees’ health is important. Bees have evolved to be able to successfully manage and protect their hives, but it doesn’t hurt to help them out. Honey bees face many threats throughout their lives, including pest…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
How Do Bees Collect Pollen?
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How Do Bees Collect Pollen?

Honey bees are natural pollinators, carrying pollen from plant to plant as they go about their day. While this immensely benefits the environment, it’s also crucial to the colony’s productivity and success. Pollen …
Mann Lake 6 years ago
What Does The Queen Bee Do?
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What Does The Queen Bee Do?

Every colony of honey bees relies on a queen bee to function and survive. But what exactly does the queen honey bee do, and what happens when a colony loses its queen? Learn more about the vital role of the queen be…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
Why Is The Bee Population Declining?
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Why Is The Bee Population Declining?

Bees play an important role in food production all across the world. Because they’re so important to the agricultural industry, there’s a growing concern for the health and preservation of bees. Unfortunately, more and m…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
How Have Honey Bees Evolved?
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How Have Honey Bees Evolved?

The history of bees dates back 130 million years. Before the bees evolved into the natural pollinators that they are today, flowers were pollinated by the wind, which scattered pollen from plants to flowers in hopes of s…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
Essential Equipment For Every Beekeeper
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Essential Equipment For Every Beekeeper

As a hobby, beekeeping offers many benefits, rewards, and challenges along the way. From a financial standpoint, beekeepers can make extra income by selling honey and other products made from beeswax and propolis. Your g…
Mann Lake 6 years ago
What Diet Does A Honey Bee Require?
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What Diet Does A Honey Bee Require?

All creatures have essential food that they need to consume in order to grow, live, and reproduce. Bees are no different. In fact, they need many of the same nutrients as humans—they just get those nutrients in different…
Mann Lake 6 years ago