What’s blooming? January 26, 2015
This hazelnut, a.k.a. filbert, was so full of bees yesterday that it sounded like a swarm had landed. The filberts blooming here are mostly the cultivated varieties; the native filberts […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Winter Robbing
I was doing a routine yard check two weeks ago when I noticed an unusual amount of traffic in two hives, primarily back and forth–not good. It was late in […]
What did you do in the bee yard today? January 10, 2015
Today I started my first batch of seeds for fall nectar. Agastache, Allium, Rudbeckia, Solidago, Liatris, and Aster are all families with species that bloom between July and October. The […]
Lane County HiveWays 