While Our Backs Were Turned . . .
This morning’s honeybee activity started out as a routine varroa mite check. I visited my friend Susan’s hives and we were going to look for her queen in a recently […]
The 2017 Season is off to a great start!
It has been nothing short of exciting so far in this spring 2017 beekeeping season. Managing the hives as the new season begins is so much fun because the hive […]
2016 Beekeeping Season, a quick review
How is it that all of the 2016 beekeeping season came and went without my writing anything? It is all in the photos I took . . . and this […]
Anticipating the New Season
The approaching end of winter is simultaneously a nerve-wracking and exciting time. I feel like the new Facebook reactions released this past week do a good job in representing the […]
Thank you, Nature, for the Hospitable Season
The days are getting shorter and the temperatures are getting colder. These are sure signs that the bees’ clustering season is coming up soon – and the honeybees know that […]
All Docile, but Different
It has been three months since late May, when I took lots of frames with advanced queen cells on them from a tremendous hive and made three splits, or nuc […]
What a joy!
It is so much fun to watch honeybees gather pollen. I never seem to get tired of following the girls around as they travel from flower to flower, picking up […]
