“I won’t know until spring.”
I have called myself a beekeeper for more than 10 years now and yet I have very mixed results getting my hives through the winter. This has always made me […]
I have called myself a beekeeper for more than 10 years now and yet I have very mixed results getting my hives through the winter. This has always made me […]
I have a great big puffy bump on the right side of my neck today . . . evidence of the hive very much alive and well and well-defended that […]
This has been a very, very busy bee season for me. This year I have five different hive locations and I think that this is wonderful. It is possible to […]
That seemed like such a good idea for a title at the time I had started this entry. But alas it is already April . . . and the madness […]
It’s nearly the end of January and, boy, do I like the sound and feel of that! It means that the new beekeeping season is not that far away. This […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]