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How To Get Bees? Here Are 5 Fabulous Ways!

So you’ve got a hive, but you still need the most important ingredient. Yes, some bees! There are 4 main ways to get bees: a nuc, a split, a swarm or a package. We will quickly introduce each way before diving in more details: Nuc: A nuc or nucleus is a mini, already-functioning hive. Comes ...

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Swarm Management: How To Do It Effectively?

Swarm Management It’s important to be able to tell when your bees are preparing to swarm, or have already swarmed. You will also need to know what steps to take when they do swarm. That you will learn in this post about swarm management. Bees swarm, usually in spring when there is lots of food, ...