What did you do in the bee yard today? November 12, 2017
I began changing out robber screens for mouse guards last weekend. This simple task has become something of a fall ritual for me. I delayed as long as possible to […]
Category Archives: Fall
Queenright in the smoke: Late summer gambling, part 2
m Success! All four of the sections of my mating box contain laying queens! The sun was so obscured by smoke today that seeing eggs was practically impossible. Thanks to […]
What’s Blooming, October 2, 2016
This week we are fortunate to have a special guest writer, pollinator enthusiast Anne Schatz, contributing to the bloom record. Anne has been a Master Gardener since 2008. She is […]
What’s Blooming? September 15, 2016
It’s really satisfying to the gardener in me to have planted a plot that is buzzing with bees in mid-September. In spite of light frosts and our normal late-summer drought, […]
What’s Blooming? November 15, 2015
Hearing the garden abuzz during a sun break last week was extremely satisfying. It’s a little unusual that my valley hasn’t received a killing frost by this point in the […]
Laying workers
More August clean-up in the bee yard…this colony failed to produce a viable queen after a mid-season split to control varroa. For any number of reasons, the bees found themselves […]
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