Guides - Guldbigård

Know-how from our apiary

Practical guides on beekeeping and queens – based on our own experience in Blekinge. We add new guides regularly.

Step by step: preparation, the cage, checking acceptance, laying workers and safe options for valuable queens.

How to save a drone-laying colony with laying workers – without losing the foragers.

Enter your grafting date and get the whole schedule day by day – to print or add to your phone’s calendar.

Winter feed · Oxalic acid · Creamed honey

Work out winter feed, oxalic acid treatment and seeding for creamed honey – enter your numbers and get exact amounts.

Re-melting in a steam wax melter, clarifying with oxalic acid and slow settling – for light, clean wax from your own hives.

Wondering about something that isn’t covered here? Get in touch – it might become our next guide.