organic beekeeping – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Sat, 22 Jul 2017 16:21:55 +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 organic beekeeping – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Top 5 Reasons Not to Treat Your Bees With Chemicals https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-5-reasons-not-to-treat-your-bees-with-chemicals/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-5-reasons-not-to-treat-your-bees-with-chemicals/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:30:28 +0000 http://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3497 If you’ve kept bees for any length of time, you’ve probably come to realize that doing so effectively requires a lot of work. In particular, bees are often vulnerable to disease as well as mites and other pests. Controlling these threats may be quite difficult, and many beekeepers opt to enlist the help of chemical […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/top-5-reasons-not-to-treat-your-bees-with-chemicals/feed/ 3 Treatment-Free Beekeeping and the Varroa Mite https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-varroa-mite/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-varroa-mite/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:56:29 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3404 The Varroa mite is a Pandora’s box that humans will never be able to close. They are here to stay and they aren’t going anywhere despite all our efforts to treat them away. According to USDA’s Report on Honey Bee Health (PDF), published in 2012, the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, remains the single most detrimental […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-varroa-mite/feed/ 5 Treatment-Free Beekeeping Explained https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-explained/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/treatment-free-beekeeping-explained/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:06:46 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3374 In order to explain treatment-free beekeeping in a manner that is productive, it is first necessary to understand that there are many definitions of what exactly “treatment-free” means. In this article, I bring to light various opinions that exist and put forth a definition that attempts to clarify the topic of treatment-free beekeeping for the […]

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