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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
18 May 2020

A queen castle is a piece of beekeeping equipment that is a single unit but with multiple compartments nestled together where the compartments are separate.

The Summer “Split Decision”, by Freddy Proni

by Véto-pharma
8 July 2019

Summer months are an exciting time as we watch our bees flourish, our hives grow in skyscraper style, and we anticipate the sweet rewards of our hard labor. Months of

5 questions to guide you in deciding if your bees are ready for winter

by Véto-pharma
16 October 2018

Phil Craft, our technical advisor in the U.S.A., is the former Kentucky State Apiarist, and an occasional contributor to Bee Culture magazine.

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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.