David Williams
Beekeeper & Bee Removal Specialist
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Co-authored Articles (20)
How to Fix Crystallized Honey in Plastic or Glass Bottles
Simple ways to liquefy honey & prevent it from crystallizing You open up your honey and instead of the smooth, golden liquid you’re used to, it’s grainy and solid. Don’t worry, your honey hasn’t gone bad—it’s...
How to Melt Beeswax at Home: Melting Point, Safety Tips, & More
Learn to melt beeswax with a double boiler, crock pot, or solar ovenBeeswax is a wonderful material to work with if you’re doing a DIY project, but it can be dangerous when it’s hot. If you’re wondering how to melt...
How to
Treat a Bee Sting
Spending time in your garden or hanging out with friends at a park is a wonderful way to spend the afternoon—until you feel a sharp poke and realize you've been stung by a bee. Bee stings are relatively common and don'...
How to
Get Rid of a Beehive
Bees are a key part of our planet’s ecosystem and should be left alone when they aren’t causing you any trouble. However, if you have a beehive on or near your house, you should take action. First, see if you can fin...
How to
Crystallize Honey
Honey naturally crystallizes over time due to its water content interacting with the glucose. If you want crystallized honey, there are several things you can do to speed up the process. First, make sure you use unfilter...
How to
Remove a Bee Stinger
Bee stings are painful enough, but leaving the stinger in your skin can cause further pain. Since bees release venom through their stingers, it's important that you remove the stinger from your skin as quickly as you can...
How to
Clean Beeswax
Cleaning beeswax is a fairly straightforward and simple process. After you’ve harvested your beeswax, you’ll likely find the wax to be filled with dirt, food waste, dead bees, or cocoons. To clean it, you can melt it...
How to
Make a Honey Bee Box
People who have gardens and appreciate the importance of bees in the natural environment may seek to keep bees of their own. Bee boxes, or hives, today are designed to encourage the health of the bee society as well as m...
How to
Attract Bees to a Bee Box
If you are interested in beekeeping and want to increase the number of bees in your apiary, you may want to attract wild bees using a bait hive or bait box. A bait hive is a way of providing a new home for swarming bees ...
How to
Build a Carpenter Bee Trap
center Carpenter bees are a destructive nuisance that dig nesting holes through fascia boards, decks, and other wood structures. Although they aren’t dangerous, they do a lot of damage when they show up in spring. Fort...
How to
Identify Honey Bees
Honey bees are very important insects that pollinate flowers and plants of all different varieties. Unlike wasps, they normally stay away from humans unless defending their nest, and they have a very vital role in the ec...
How to
Get Rid of Carpenter Bees
Carpenter bees are benign creatures that are mostly harmless to humans, but which can be very damaging to wooden structures. Carpenter bees are so named because they drill into wood to lay their eggs and build their nest...
Can You Be a Beekeeper?
What to know about the beekeeping business before becoming a beekeeperWhenever you see a bee buzzing by, it’s probably hard at work pollinating plants, sustaining the crops we eat, and producing honey. Bees play a crit...
How to
Harvest Beeswax
Whether you are a beginner beekeeper or a professional, you can easily harvest your beeswax! Throw on your beekeeper's outfit and smoke out the bees so you can get your frames. Collect the wax caps and melt them down to ...
How to
Keep Bees Away
Warm weather means barbecues, pool parties, and lazy afternoons on the lawn, but it also means bee season. If buzzing bees are ruining your outdoor activities, don’t worry—we’ve compiled some of the best, most effe...
How to
Melt Honey
There are several reasons you may need to melt honey. Fresh, raw honey has a thick consistency, but melting it can make the honey thinner and easier to use. Old honey crystallizes and becomes grainy, but melting it can r...
How to
Escape from Killer Bees
Killer bees, otherwise known as Africanized Honey Bees, are a species of bee that tenaciously defends their hive. The name "killer bee" is a bit misleading because the bee is actually smaller and its sting is less venomo...
How to
Liquify Honey
In its raw state, honey contains many beneficial enzymes and offers a healthy sweetness to those who've grown unhappy with overly-processed foods and candies. Over time, though, honey will thicken and form a solid mass o...
How to
Use Beeswax
Beeswax is produced by honeybees when they make their hives, and it’s used in many different products, such as lotions and cosmetics. You can use raw beeswax to create your own products to use on your skin and hair. Be...
How to
Get Rid of Carpenter Bees Using Wd40
If you've found the telltale holes from carpenter bees around your home, you might want to get rid of them before they can do more damage. Instead of buying a specialty product, reach for WD40. Although it's a petroleum-...
