We Save Bees!
I’m so excited to be getting baby bees again, I feel like I won the lottery! It has been way too long in my apiary since I have seen the smiling shape of pearly white baby bee larvae. The past four weeks have been adventurous. I watched my original queen […]
And yes, I found that out the hard way. On June 10th, 2011, my bees swarmed. On June 11th, 2011, I was able to capture them using duct tape, a rock and a string, but the job was incomplete. Now I needed to rehive them. I took my container of […]
Yes, sometimes bees are really stupid. On June 10th, 2011 after several attempts my bees swarmed. Being 80 feet high in the air, I had given up on retrieving them and waved goodbye. But on June 11th, 2011, when I found out they were still there, it was raining outside, […]
One of the unavoidable, exciting and sometimes depressing aspects of beekeeping is swarming. Bee Swarm – this word draws great fear in some circles, as we have all heard horror stories of killer bee swarms that have relentlessly attacked people leaving fatal injuries. While bees can be aggressive defending their […]
One of the biggest hurdles with semi-urban beekeeping is dealing with your neighbors. When you tell people you are a beekeeper they will usually respond in one of two ways – “That is so cool, how did you get into it?” or “Why the hell would you want to do […]