The Many Benefits of Keeping Honey Bees on Your Property Honey bees are a valuable asset to any property. Not only do they provide delicious honey, but they also play an important role in pollinating crops. This is important for two reasons: first, crops that are pollinated by bees yield more fruit and vegetables; and…
What is Treatment-Free Beekeeping? Beekeepers who practice treatment–free beekeeping often don‘t use any chemical treatments to protect their colonies from pests like varroa mites, tracheal mites, or nosema. Instead, they allow weaker colonies to die off and only take surplus honey if the bees are healthy and have a surplus. This helps build up the…
The Queen’s Delight: How Bees Use Royal Jelly What is Royal Jelly? Royal Jelly is a highly nutritious food that honey bees produce to feed the young larvae and Queen of their colony, who gets fed a diet mainly consisting of Royal Jelly. The enzymes in this nourishing jelly help her lay more than her…
Making Sure Your Hives Access Enough Food During the Late Summer Bees rely on a diversity of sources for food. To make sure colonies are prepared for the summer months when there isn’t nectar available, it’s important to inspect regularly and ensure that you’re not running low on stores while also feeding sugar syrup in…
Hello there! It’s Landon with the Royal Jelly Bee Company! Time has really flown by since the last blog update, still trying to get more regular at that, and a ton of fun stuff has been in the works! After the February freezes came to a finish, we’d gotten knocked back a bit, but it…
Hey there, This is Landon with Royal Jelly Bee Co.! Spring is finally almost here, the arctic blast has passed and things are finally picking back up! I’ve been making rounds the past 2 weeks and checking on all of our colonies, accessing losses from the weather, and setting up our colonies for success early…