White clover is considered the most important honey plant in North America. White clover honey is also the honey by which all other...

It was a great weekend to get a lot of work done in the bee yard. Here are a few snapshots. We've added a few new hives to the yard. The...

The Honeybee and the Maple Tree have an interesting relationship. In the very early spring when the perfect combination of freezing...

Honey Bees are hungry and cracked corn dust will do in a pinch.

There are three essential tools that every beekeeper uses while working with bees. What you first associate with beekeepers are the veil...

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Not treating them like an industrial machine producing honey, but rather treating them as the living biological organism that they are.

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Unhappy events were not the only occasions that the bees were invited to participate in.

It was a tough fall in 2019 for putting in the seed for the 2020 Wildflower Field. We were able to finally plant the field the week...

For as long as honey bees have been domesticated, beekeepers have known that different genetic stocks have distinctive differences.

Bees create moisture in the hive during winter. Too much moisture and humidity in the hive can kill the entire hive.

Bees across the country manage to survive the cold winter months, which speaks to their incredible planning and resilience.

While we do use smokers among many other traditional beekeeping tools and equipment, including the time-tested 10-frame Langstroth hives....

Sycamore Creek Apiary follows the Ohio State Beekeepers Association’s (OSBA) Best Management Practices. Whenever possible, we opt for...