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A beekeeping blog by a woman beekeeper sharing her hives and lessons for new keepers. Useful for new beekeepers.
Beekeeping lessons for newcomers from a hands-on beekeeper.
The post treats propolis as part of the immune defence of the colony and explains why modern hives leave few places for bees to store it. It sets out what beekeepers can change to leave room for propolis.
Visit linkThe equipment archive covers hive insulation, running medium supers throughout the apiary, the layout of a backyard apiary and why new beekeepers should not be given a hive as a gift.
Visit linkThe author page says the blog is for fun, accessible learning rather than a record of a single beekeeper's mistakes and successes. It also says the author has been doing beekeeping at high volume.
Visit linkThe blog is a learning resource rather than a diary of one season. Its posts cover requeening with a vaccinated queen, new honey bee vaccines aimed at American foulbrood and deformed wing virus, protecting bees in extreme heat, and news of a new bee book. Because the author works at high volume, the advice draws on managing many colonies at once.
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