Hey everyone, My name is Trevor and I'm a Personal Trainer that lives in a small town in southern Ontario. I got interested in beekeeping and the idea of it a while ago but had only decided that I actually wanted to do it myself when I started watching Elementary. At the start of this year I...

Hello all, I started one top bar last year in May. They were doing well and had drawn out about 15 bars of comb by the fall. They did have stores of honey and I even fed them some sugar syrup and dry sugar crystals when I packed them away for winter. It's been real cold and we finally got a...

Just a few lines to introduce myself. I just started beekeeping this summer. I have (had) two hives. Just discovered today that one was gone! Only a few dead bees in the hive the lower box is quasi empty the upper box is mostly full of honey supplies. Not sure what happened, I took a few pics. I...

One of my hives died in late winter. The hive had plenty of capped honey with some bee poop on it, but smells neutral. It has unfortunately been sitting in the barn all summer, and it has gotten warm in there. I'm wondering if I should extract it for mead, save it for a winter feed, just get rid...