How to keep hive numbers to a manageable number, whatever that number is. Balancing the needs of swarm control and replacement of winter losses with the time, energy, equipment and enthusiasm availabl...

Why are bigger queens, better queens? It may be more to do with queen mating success and colony fitness than simply the number of eggs she lays.

How can something so simple cost so much? Dummy boards and fat dummies. Some you can buy, but shouldn’t. Some you can’t buy at all. Both can be built very inexpensively.