Tips and Helpful Links for Beekeepers

Decide When and What to Treat for Varroa Mites

Check your local state Extension Office For Resources

Emails provide a way to receive your form responses and feedback. These are practice questions I combined into a virtual test based off of my study materials from Georgia and North Carolina and may be harder than the actual exam. 

Wax cappings from honey pictured above

Use a bucket or pot that will not evaporate in one day and is at least 10 feet from the hives, preferably on their flight path to and from the hive.  Bees like dirty water  - like the stuff from ponds or slightly salty and rich in minerals. They like pools for all that salt and chlorine. Pool noodles make good floatation devices if you cut them into donuts! A solar fountain can keep the water moving and mosquito dunks are a great addition to stop the spread of mosquitos.

A resource to make labels for honey

There was a cool event where the bees in NC made green honey. It sold for $$ and was really unique!

Otherwise: Want to know if you have "Funny Honey" aka honey the bees make from sugar or corn syrup versus actual honey the bees made from nectar? Add food dye drops in blue or green to distinguish what is real honey from flower nectar versus the fake stuff.

Link to Mark's Page

Whats in the Bee Bucket?