Varroxsan – A Cardboard Oxalic Acid Strip
Varroxsan: The new, sustainable way to combat varroa mites using cardboard oxalic acid strips, ensuring healthier, thriving bee colonies.
Varroxsan: The new, sustainable way to combat varroa mites using cardboard oxalic acid strips, ensuring healthier, thriving bee colonies.
Wax moths are a true pest for beekeepers and they can leave a real mess of cocoons, larva and webbing inside the hive for their beekeeper.
Setting up a bee hive stand is an important step in getting started with beekeeping and there are multiple types of hive stands available.
Finding the right spot to place your bees is very important. It’s hard to move bees from one location to another if you don’t have a large property. Use our guide to make sure you place your colony in the right location.
Turning burr comb, cappings or other types of bees wax into clean, filtered bees wax can be a hard to do for the beekeeper, let us show you how.
Monitoring the weight, humidity, and temperature of a colony of bees is the modern way of checking on the colony and progress of a colony remotely. Here is the data we get from our system.
The stack of white boxes you see in your mind is a single bee hive. Sometimes these hives are very strong, and some are weak. Beekeepers may have a situation where one is a queenless hive and won’t survive much longer as is, so they will need to be combined with a stronger hive. It isn’t hard to combine hives, but you do need to understand what you are doing.
Storing beekeeping equipment is something that all beekeepers will need to do eventually. But it’s important to do it correctly to protect your equipment and comb from pests.
Your beekeeping suit can get very dirty in a year, trust us. What once was a crisp, white ventilated beekeeping suits becomes dirty and grimy like the local rhino at the zoo has been napping on it. But, don’t fret, it can be returned to it’s previously angelic splendor (mostly). It’s actually a lot like doing regular laundry, but with some considerations.
Winter is pretty hard on animals, and while we may not think about it much, honeybees and other insects have to survive the cold each year.