brood – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:40:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 brood – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Sneaky Behavior of Cuckoo Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/sneaky-behavior-of-cuckoo-bees-zbwz1905zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/sneaky-behavior-of-cuckoo-bees-zbwz1905zsau/#comments Thu, 30 May 2019 13:47:20 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4388 Cuckoo bees are closely related to their host species. Their appearance and size will depend on the host species. For example, if their host species is bumblebees then they will look like bumblebees. The difference is, cuckoo bees will always be solitary.

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How to “Read” a Frame from Your Hive https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-read-a-frame-from-your-hive/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/how-to-read-a-frame-from-your-hive/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:57:28 +0000 http://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3530 How to “Read” a Frame from Your Hive On Sunday, we checked our hive to see if our queen had begun laying eggs in earnest yet. The honeybees had clearly been intent on demolishing the pollen patty I had made them a week and a half ago, so that was a good sign. When we […]

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