Honey Bee Swarm Removal Service Swarm season has begun! If you are located in Beverly or any of the nearby towns in Essex County, MA, you qualify for our free Bee Swarm Removal Service. We will take your unwanted bees and relocate them through our Host a Hive and Adopt […]
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We Have A New Host Provider
We Have A New Host Provider! I am so grateful to you and all my regular visitors! In fact, due to the popularity of this website with readers, I had to move to a new type of web hosting provider. So things have been quiet around here lately, but I […]
Laying Workers In Package Bees?
Laying Workers in Package Bees? Yes, it happened. But it shouldn’t. Upon inspecting one of my newly installed packages last week to check for eggs, I came across this lovely sight – not one, not two, but multiple eggs per cell. Some cells had only a few eggs and some […]
Local Bee Lovers – Host A Hive In Your Own Backyard!!
Local Bee Lovers – Host A Hive In Your Own Backyard!! Curious about what it’s like to keep bees but lack the expertise, equipment or time? Now you can host a honeybee hive for us instead. Hive hosting is easy and FUN! We have a few spots available for HIVE […]
Death of a Hive: A Postmortem Analysis
Death of a Hive: A Postmortem Analysis It is with great sadness that I write this post and one of the reasons it has been a while since I have posted last. Of course this was also partly due to normal holiday busyness and the craziness of being parent at […]
No Cook Candy Board for Bees Now Available In Our Store!
No Cook Candy Board for Bees Now Available In Our Store! Do you want to use a candy board to feed your bees this winter but don’t have time to make one? Try our reusable, refillable candy board, no cooking required. Simply buy the board, add a sugar/water mixture and […]