The Hive Mind

Telling a customer to buy two nucs instead of one isn’t a marketing scheme, it’s a great investment in your beekeeping adventure. To us,...

Bee Role: Heater Bee A colony spends approximately 6.4% of their time keeping the brood warm at about 95F. To do this, it takes heater...

We often get asked what makes our bees mite resistant.. The answer is simple, varroa sensitive hygiene or VSH for short. VSH is not a...

VSH Post

Lloyd St Bees was interviewed by Michael Schlesinger at CBS58 about what we all can do to improve the future of these precious...

Bee Role: Soldier Bee We previously discussed the role of guard bees (picture A), soldier bees (picture B) are their counterparts. Once...

Guards are a subset of the bees on the entrance or landing board. Guards show a distinctive posture with their wings spread and their...

Featured Bee: Fanner Bees

For those who may not know what a push in cage is, it is used for queen introduction and allows the queen to lay during the introduction...

We have Wisconsin nucs born and bred in Wisconsin and sold only in Wisconsin. ​ Why is this important? We are unique here at Lloyd St....

Welcome to the world of beekeeping! If you're like most people, your brain is overloaded when you begin looking into beekeeping. We like...

Supplies -Two nucs: If you're a new beekeeper, two spring nucs specifically. We always advise our customers to run at least two colonies....

A nuc (pronounced like NUKE) is a fully functioning colony, just smaller. It contains an accepted, marked and laying queen, eggs, larvae,...