Beekeeping Basics

In the height of summer, when temperatures are soaring, it's important to remember that bees (and all wildlife) need access to safe drinking water....

Why foundationless is fabulous If you are a new beekeeper, you might not have realised how wonderfully subversive it was to receive your Flow Hive ...

Every beekeeper needs to replace the queen in their hive at some point. This process is called ‘requeening’. There are many different reasons to re...

Spring is the perfect time to get started with a new colony. “Splitting” is a cost-effective way of establishing a new hive and one of the best gif...

A queenless hive is a sad story indeed, and one that’s not uncommon for new beekeepers. It can be difficult to diagnose as the effects of queenless...

Now that you’ve got your Flow Hive built and ready for bees, you might be wondering how best to populate it. Acquiring your first bee colony is exc...

It's not all about the honey There’s much more to beekeeping than just harvesting honey. Flow Hive beekeeper Hilary Kearney looks at what newbees s...

Bearding is a term referring to bees accumulating at the front of the hive, in a beard-like shape. Bees do this to make room inside the hive for ad...

A pollinator house is a home for solitary-nesting bees. Did you know that different species of bees have different nesting behaviours? Some bees li...

Catching a swarm of bees is one of the most joyous parts of beekeeping and it is an easy and free way to bolster your apiary! Read on to find out h...

So you’ve done a hive split, and now you need a queen— Once you have split your hive, you have the option to: Take the old queen with you to the ...