Thinking of starting your beehive? From hives and frames to smokers and suits, here’s a beginner-friendly guide to all the ...

Beekeeper Scott Svab explains two different methods for splitting honey bee hives, weighing the pros and cons of each.

including showing up to remote orchards with their own hive boxes and stealing the frames of bees (and leaving the GPS trackers behind). Symes believes that the best tool is small enough to embed into ...

open image in gallery Basic equipment is a hive, protective clothing, hive-related tools and a source ... t lay eggs in the honey); brood box and floor.” Beekeeping is a seasonal hobby so ...

“Brood boxes are deeper and at the bottom ... a few puffs of smoke will defuse that and keep the bees a bit calmer.” 4. A hive tool “It’s a bit like a chisel,” says Meadows explaining ...

Splitting a hive is something quite simple and easy you can do to expand your apiary. This video follows the splitting of a flow hive, and relocating the bees to a new hive in the garden.

When I arrive at Falconwood Farms apiary, Kaat Kaye is already deep into checking hive boxes, unaware of my presence. I overhear her nattering at the bees ... hive tool, and smoker, Kaye moves ...

Check out these easy-to-follow horizontal hive plans to get your started in the world of beekeeping ... simply make the box longer by 19/16 inches for each additional frame you desire.