The PerfectBee Beekeeping Blog
Winter Bees & Fall Honeybee Populations
Combining Honeybee Colonies
Assessing Honeybee Colony Size
Harvesting Honey from Your Beehive
Before You Harvest Honey
Tips & Tricks for Providing Pollinator-Friendly Plants
During & After a Honeybee Swarm
Why Honeybees Swarm
How to Feed Honeybee Colonies
Feeding Honeybees -What is “Ash Content”?
What to Feed Honeybee Colonies
When to Feed Honeybee Colonies
Tips for Installing New Honeybee Colonies
Beekeeping Goals
Honeybee Cleansing Flights
Announcing some important changes at PerfectBee
A Beehive Autopsy
Checking Your Beehive Has Signs of Life
Know where to source your bees? Think about that now!
Through-the-Winter Introductory Webinar
Get Your Hives Off the Ground
Don’t Forget to Take Video of Your First Hives
The Value in Reviewing Losses
Inspect Often When You Start Beekeeping
Starting With Multiple Hives
How Far Do Bees Forage?
What’s in Your Toolkit
Great Gifts for Beekeepers
What is a Drone Congregation Area?
Why to Store Frames
Do Bees See Colors?
The Composition of Honey
A Beekeeper’s Guide to Bee Stings
Identifying Poisoned Bees
Bee Hive Insulation for the Winter
How to Make Honey Sticks
Marking a Queen Bee
The Beekeeper’s Role in Avoiding Colony Starvation
A Guide to Beehive Entrance Management
The PerfectBee Guide to Varroa Treatments
It Started With A Swarm
9 Ways For Bee-lovers to Celebrate Valentine’s Day
A BetterComb Hive Inspection
The Basics Of Requeening A Hive
Swarm Management in Spring
Introducing the PerfectBee Colony Beekeeping Forum
Calming your bees
PerfectBee Guide to Frames and Foundation
VSH and The Selective Breeding of Bees To Fight Varroa
The Mechanics of The Drone Congregation Area
The story of a single cell within a beehive
The amazing life of the Varroa mite
A Beekeepers Guide To Using Oxalic Acid
The PerfectBee Guide to Langstroth Boxes
The PerfectBee Guide to Langstroth Hives
Mite Treatments and Winter Hive Activity
Why Beekeeping?
Open Or Closed Feeding: Which Is Best?
Screen Bottom Boards Vs. Solid Bottom Boards: Which Is Better?
Using Essential Oils To Help Your Hives
5 Methods To Help You Raise Your Own Queens
Equipment Choices For Beginner Beekeepers
The ZomBees are Coming!
Bees And Pesticides: What Is Safe?
What To Know About Performing A Split
What You Should Consider Before Becoming An Urban Beekeeper
When Advanced Monitoring Meets Beekeeping
Small Hive Beetle: What is it, How to Treat it
How To Cope With Bee Stings
Your New Beehive: The First Two Weeks
How To Get Your Kids Involved In Beekeeping
Harvesting Honey
April Beekeeping: the challenges and rewards
Weighing your beehive: Why and how
Bee facts for kids
What to know about Warre hives
Common concerns about keeping bees
Beekeeping and Easter
The special properties of propolis
What to Know About Top Bar Hives
First Hive Check in the Spring
Obtaining and assessing varroa mite count
Unique and Emerging Beekeeping Trends
What to know about Langstroth beehives
The language of bees
6 ways to join the beekeeping community
How and when to move a beehive
Can I really be a beekeeper?
Over-wintering humans: Getting through the long wait
A beekeeper’s journey: Part 4 – Adventures in overwintering
A beekeeper’s journey: Part 3 – Package bees or swarm?
Being thankful for bees
A beekeeper’s journey: Part 2 – Locating the hive
Best uses for bee products
Why bees fascinate me