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What actions should you plan throughout the season to promote the health of your colonies and anticipate challenges?

Anticipation is one of the keys to the success of your colonies throughout the season. To enhance colony health and anticipate challenges, you perform regular inspections, feed your bees, control parasite presence, tend to your queens, manage swarming, prepare for wintering, ... and most importantly, you stay informed about best practices, advice, and insights from other beekeepers.

So many tasks, efforts, and attention are required for the management and conservation of your colonies. It's with this in mind that we offer you these articles, to support you.

Winter hive management: ensuring healthy bees through the cold season

19 November 2024

Clinical Case: Honey Bee Brood Disease

8 November 2024

Discovery of the Red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) in Malta

8 October 2024

Clinical case: Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus

26 August 2024

How to manage your bee colonies post-honey harvest

by Véto-pharma
25 January 2022

As the days are getting longer, and we are all looking forward to those extra rays of sunshine, you are not alone in the desire to stretch your legs and

Trick or Treat – The Creepy Cabinet of Horrors that can be Beekeeping in Fall

by Ulrike Marsky
27 October 2021

Autumn is a particular period for beekeepers. Several problems can occur during this season, from the mice invasions to cannibalism between honey bees, not mentioning absconding, starvation or even… chilled

Swarm warning: the reproduction cycle

by Phil Craft
18 July 2021

An article wrote by Phil Craft, beekeeper and retired Kentucky bee inspector, wanted to share his experience about swarming. Click to learn more about swarming season.

What to look for during spring hive inspections

by Véto-pharma
29 January 2021

Phil Craft is a beekeeper, former bee inspector in Kentucky, and the technical advisor for Véto-pharma in the United States. In this article, Phil explains why Spring hive checks are

Zombee Night Flight – Food for Thought

by Véto-pharma
7 December 2020

Each and every year recently, the media runs a story about Zombees (Zombie honey bees) as it alluringly mystifies the Halloween and the Day of the Dead experience. Many of

The robbing event, by Freddy Proni

by Véto-pharma
5 August 2020

“It is like an Ocean’s Eleven plan, where a curious member of the honey bee social team discovers a protected vault of liquid gold in the area. This brave forager

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Véto-pharma is a pharmaceutical laboratory dedicated to honey bees health that develops, produces and markets a range of drugs and products designed to combat the key diseases and problems that threaten colonies.