August 2026

Selecting high-quality queens with strong genetics is a fundamental aspect of maintaining healthy, productive honey bee colonies. This guide emphasizes the importance of sourcing local stock to ensure bees are adapted to their specific environment and free from disease. Beekeepers should consider re-queening when a colony exhibits poor growth, excessive defensiveness, or susceptibility to illness. The process requires significant patience…

The calendar is a huge price factor for nucs. A spring nuc has an overwintered queen, proven to survive local winters. A summer nuc, with a newly mated queen, grows slower and needs costly feeding to reach winter size. Buying a summer nuc shifts overwintering risk to you, often eliminating first-year honey harvests. #beekeeping #springnuc #summer nuc #beecoins #apiary #honeybees…