For novices and more experienced beekeepers, early spring is the time to install new bee colonies for the year. Packaged Bees For the non-beekeepers out there, bee packages are the most common way to install and start beekeeping. If you order bees through the mail, they'll almost certainly come in what's called a "package", which …
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Beekeepers with new ideas, energy, and ways of doing things are transforming the apiary yard to something that beekeepers from 50 years ago wouldn't recognize.
Catching Up My two Italian bee packages arrived in MD this weekend and I am very excited. First promised in April, a cold and wet spring in Georgia held up the delivery for an unprecedented two long months. By this time of year, the packages should have been installed, the bees settled in and raising brood, plus storing honey for …
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