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Foxhound Bee Company Home Shop Blog All Our Posts Recent Blog Posts Beekeeping 101 – Five Part Master Guide Series​ Beekeeping Equipment Beekeeping Pests Beeswax Feeding Bees Honey Queens Questions and Answers Education ServicesGift cards Menu Home Shop Blog All Our Posts Recent Blog Posts Beekeeping 101 – Five Part Master Guide Series​ Beekeeping Equipment Beekeeping Pests Beeswax Feeding Bees Honey Queens Questions and Answers Education ServicesGift cards Foxhound Bee Company runs a bee keeping supply company built for helping hobbyist beekeepers with their honey bees. Before Foxhound ever sold a single bee hive, we wrote educational blogs and taught beginner classes at our local beekeeping club. Fast forward to today, and we have a retail beekeeping store in Birmingham, Alabama, and run bee colonies all over the area. We have honey bee colonies in urban, suburban, and rural areas of town and have gained a lot of experience keeping honey bees alive. This beekeeping blog will help new beekeepers succeed with their bees by offering quality advice from our experienced beekeeping team. Table of Contents Our Most Recent Posts Providing Water for Bees How to Get Rid of Carpenter Bees Types of Honey Bees Varroxsan – A Cardboard Oxalic Acid Strip Asian Hornets: Effective Control And Tips For Beekeepers Parts Of A Beehive – The Basic Components How To Run A Queen Bank Oxalic Acid Vaporization Click to load more Beekeeping 101 Beekeeping 101 is our most popular suite of blogs written specifically for those interested in keeping bees. You can imagine this as a precursor to any beginner beekeeping classes you might take. These five blogs answer the significant questions everyone considering keeping their own bees, should ask. These are five beginner beekeeper posts every new beekeeper needs to read before starting. Master Guide – Beekeeping For Beginners Master Guide – Is Beekeeping Right For Me? Master Guide – What Beekeeping Equipment Do I Need? Master Guide – Where Do I Get Bees? Master Guide – How To Learn Beekeeping? Click to load more Amazon Facebook Google Instagram Youtube Map-marked-alt Beekeeping Equipment We make a living selling beekeeping supplies and consider ourselves experts on the matter. Whether you find wild bees or buy package bees and queen bees from a supplier, you’ll need to understand beekeeping equipment. There are many options for equipment, and we make it easier to understand. Common Types of Bee Hives (with Handicap Accessible Options) Cypress Vs. Pine For Beehives Parts Of A Beehive – The Basic Components Oxalic Acid Vaporization Beehive Insulation Should I Start with 8 or 10 Frame Equipment? Varroa Mites and The Varroa Easy Check Our Favorite Beekeeping Veil Click to load more Questions and Answers There seem to be more questions than answers when you get started with keeping bees. Asking other beekeepers is a great way to learn, but sometimes you want to learn from an experienced beekeeper who answers these questions day in and day out with customers. Answering questions is one of the core things we offer in our beekeeping blog. Hobbyist beekeepers need to understand a lot to practice good bee husbandry, and we are happy to provide readable and straightforward information for beekeepers. Why Did My Package of Bees Leave? Cypress Vs. Pine For Beehives Should I Start with 8 or 10 Frame Equipment? How to Combine Beehives What Makes 100% Pure Beeswax Candles Special How To Catch Small Hive Beetles With a Beetle Jail How To Light A Smoker Master Guide – Where Do I Get Bees? Click to load more Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Pinterest StumbleUpon Reddit Feeding Bees Nothing seems more confusing when starting than learning to feed bees in your backyard. Beekeepers have so many different ways of feeding their hives, and we want to help teach which method you may want to use to help you with your beehive. Beekeeping can be confusing for new beekeepers, and nothing can seem more complicated than how and why to feed your honeybees. Pollen, syrup, protein, essential oils are all options beekeepers should read about. A forager honey bee is able to forage on plants in your garden and fly miles, but they still do need help getting started. Providing Water for Bees Live Bee Hive Scale and Sensor Data What Do Bees Eat? What is Robbing and What Beekeepers Should Know About Protecting Their Hive Sugar Syrup Math for Beekeepers Sugar Syrup for Bees Why Would I Feed My Bees Green Food Coloring? The Best and Cheapest Way to Feed Bees Click to load more Beekeeping Pests Beekeeping would be much easier if we did not have beekeeping pests like varroa mites, small hive beetles, and wax moths to deal with. These pests can usually be managed as a part of an integrated pest management plan where a beekeeper will use different methods to keep their pest levels low. A colony can manage itself through working in its environment, but certain things like mite control and pesticides require the help of a beekeepers help. How to Get Rid of Carpenter Bees Varroxsan – A Cardboard Oxalic Acid Strip Asian Hornets: Effective Control And Tips For Beekeepers Oxalic Acid Vaporization Wax Moths: What Beekeepers Can Do Survey of Varroa Mite Treatments Amiflex – A Varroa Treatment for Commercial Beekeepers How To Catch Small Hive Beetles With a Beetle Jail Click to load more Honey Honey is the universal connector between beekeepers, bee enthusiasts, and honey lovers. There is nothing like getting honey from your beehive, but raw, local honey from a beekeeper is nearly as good. Beekeepers may not think about harvesting, bottling, and dealing with honey much when getting into beekeeping, but we can help you with this new era of your hobby. How Does a Fume Board Work? Calculator for Estimating Honey Bottles Interactive Honey Calculator For Beekeepers How Much Does Honey Weigh? Honey Colors and Why They Change Nectar Dearth: What Beekeepers Should Know What Is A Nectar Flow? Does Filtering or Straining Honey Remove Pollen From Honey? Why Would I Feed My Bees Green Food Coloring? Click to load more Queens Most people think a bee is a bee, but there are three different types of bees in a colony. This is true for both native bees and our favorite pollinators, the honey bee. The queen bee is a complicated insect, and there is a lot to learn about how they function in a beehive. The honey bee suite works together inside the hive to make the most of the nectar flow and to survive the winter dearth, and the queen is key to their success. How To Run A Queen Bank Requeening A Hive What Happens When A Queen Bee Dies? Buying Queen Bees How and Why To Mark Your Queen Bee Should You Use A Queen Excluder? Queen Marking Colors What Is A Queen Cup? Click to load more Beeswax Pure beeswax is a one of a kind product that can’t be replicated by science. The bees make the wax from their bodies and form it into the cells we know and love. The bees use it for storing everything inside their hive and beekeepers use it for many things as well. From beeswax candles to cosmetics and even for furniture, beeswax is an amazing product. What Makes 100% Pure Beeswax Candles Special Cleaning, Rendering, and Filtering Beeswax Click to load more Miscellaneous Sometimes we write in our beekeeping blog about topics that don’t have a home. Here is where those blogs land, so they have a place to collect. Bees can be complicated little bugs, so we have to write about a wide variety of topics to be a reliable source of information for you. You’ll find posts on beekeeping gifts, pollination, beekeeping books, swarm details, and more in this category. We have done some live bee removals in the past, so that you may find a little info about those as well. Providing Water for Bees Types of Honey Bees International, National and State Beekeeping Conferences Cleaning, Rendering, and Filtering Beeswax A Dozen Ways Beekeepers Make It Hard On Themselves Live Bee Hive Scale and Sensor Data How to Combine Beehives What is Robbing...