Every beekeeper needs to know how to requeen a hive. Sometimes a colony needs help with queen replacement and may perish without assistance.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn the ins and out of using bee brood boxes on beehives. What exactly is a brood box and how does its use play a role in hive management.| Carolina Honeybees
Deciding when to add a honey super to your beehive is crucial for new beekeepers to prevent swarming and ensure a good honey harvest.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn about the role of the queen bee in a hive. Besides laying eggs, the queen honey bee maintains the social structure of the colony.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn about the curious activity known as bees bearding. This natural activity of honey bees can be alarming to new beekeepers.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn about the special role played by nurse bees in a honey bee colony. Their tasks revolve around brood care and feeding young.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn how honey bees use pheromones to communicate, regulate hive activities, and maintain colony cohesion with chemical signals.| Carolina Honeybees
Discover why honey bees swarm, the fascinating process behind it, and its vital role in colony reproduction and ecosystem health.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn how to identify the different types of bee brood in a beehive. This helps beekeepers evaluate the status of the colony.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn why bees kills their queen and how beekeepers can be proactive in noticing problems before the bees take action.| Carolina Honeybees
Discover the importance of the role of worker bees in a honey bee colony. Thousands of individuals work together to make survival possible.| Carolina Honeybees
Learn the facts about drone honey bees: the role they play in the hive and why they are so important to colony survival despite doing no work.| Carolina Honeybees
You know you need to inspect your beehive routinely. But, what do you need to look for - learn how to inspect a beehive and what may signal a problem.| Carolina Honeybees