Hive Stands
4 guides tagged Hive Stands
How to Move a Beehive Without Losing the Bees
Three feet or three miles, and everything that rule actually means: why foragers fly back to a spot rather than to their family, the workarounds for a short move, how to strap and seal a hive that will not come apart in a truck bed, and why heat, not the drive, is what kills bees in transit.
Updated Aug 202619 min read
Apiary Predators: Mice, Skunks, Bears, and the Rest
Everything bigger than a beetle wants something from your hives, and each one leaves a different signature at the entrance. This is the full field guide to reading that evidence and answering it: mouse guards before the first frost, raised stands and tack strips for the night scratchers, electric fencing for bears because nothing else works, and the fall yellowjacket pressure that finishes weak colonies.
Updated Aug 202620 min read
The Beehive Placement Guide: Where to Put Your Hive
The complete siting playbook: sun and shade by climate, the truth about facing entrances southeast, windbreaks and winter exposure, why a water source within flight range keeps you out of the neighbor's pool, flight path management with a simple fence, distances from doors and walkways, rooftop beekeeping, stand height that saves backs and colonies, electric fencing where bears live, and the neighbor diplomacy that keeps a good site usable for years.
Updated Aug 202622 min read
The Best Beehive Stands and Winter Wraps (2026)
Winter does not kill most colonies with cold; it kills them with condensation, starvation, and mites, in roughly that order of surprise to new beekeepers. We picked the stands that save your back and your bottom boards, the wraps that actually earn their place by climate zone, the screened bottom board that manages moisture year round, and the electric fencing that keeps bears from ending the whole conversation.
Updated Aug 2026~15 min read
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