Browse Beekeeping Resources

Download a comprehensive Honey Bee Nutrition Guide from the Honey Bee Health Coalition, providing a roadmap for feeding bees at each stage.

Dr. David Peck begins with the biology of what makes a queen bee a queen bee. Discover how to choose, evaluate and manage queen bees.

Plan and manage your yearly beekeeping activities with this helpful calendar template that can be downloaded and printed for your own use.

CBA recommends the following beekeeping resources, including books, magazines, educational sources, and organizations.

We chat mite treatments, vaporization methods, what we're feeding our bees right now, and how to use some interesting new technology...

Download this comprehensive & ecologically-responsible guide to planting native flowers that benefit local bee populations in Connecticut.

In this episode, we chat robbing (and how to prevent it from happening to your bees), overwintering your hives, and feeding options...

Observe and track the condition of your colonies using this Beehive Inspection Checklist that can be downloaded and printed for re-use.

In this episode, we chat protein supplements, adding pollen, the impact of honeybees on native pollinators, using mouse guards, and more...

In this free webinar for beekeepers, Michigan State University honey bee disease experts cover information on European foulbrood...

Dr. Cameron Jack covers three important research topics on varroa and gives the latest updates on the applied science of the research...

In this short video, Master Beekeeper Bill Hesbach reveals uncapping tips and tricks using a hot knife and a motorized radial extractor.

Beekeeping is not just a hobby; it is a profound connection to nature that can span generations... Read full story by Edina Toth

Dr. Bartlett covers some of the frontiers in Varroa control research, spanning novel chemical treatments to bee breeding and colony...

In this episode, we discuss what to do with old comb, CO2 Injection for varroa, the best smoker materials, and so much more...

Dr. Michael Smith explores how honey bees adapt their building behavior when "perfect" cells are impossible to construct. Sign in to watch >

Learn more about pollen - its characteristics, contents, purpose, and how bees collect and digest this incredible grain.

We're back! In this episode, we discuss bears & electric fence-building, honey production, foul brood, swarm rates, hive setup, and more...

Summer beekeeping tasks, the power of sunlight, feeding with "bee tea", hive inspection, and more from guest writer Grai St. Clair Rice

We talk blooms, swarms, splits, and what your colonies should be looking like at this time of year...

As part of our mission to provide a common forum for beekeepers to share information and ideas, here is the first edition of our new...

This in-person event explores the beauty and mystery of honey bee flight, then shows a queen's mating flight ...

Dr. Ozturk outlines the use of honey as a longstanding therapeutic agent, and provides evidence-based information about the bioactivity...

Dr. McArt speaks about all the stressors currently experienced by pollinators and what every one of us can do to help the situation...