What did you do in the bee yard today? April 17, 2017
The last three years’ early, unseasonably warm springs have given way to our more “normal” rainy weather this year. I’ve hesitated to interrupt the couple of good foraging days we’ve […]
Category Archives: Quandries
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 […]
What Did You Do in the Bee Yard Today? March 23, 2014
I tried to curb my curiosity and not tear open every hive I have during our few days of sun. Showing uncharacteristic self-restraint, I chose two whose meager traffic concerned […]
Heralds of Spring
I spied this sleeping bumble bee, very likely a queen, on my way up the drive early this morning. Curiosity got the better of me before I hit the kitchen […]
What’s blooming?
I was lucky enough to get away from my indoor responsibilities long enough to visit a few of my hives today and was delighted to find the bees bringing in […]
No eggs?
A few weeks ago, in the interest of eliminating weak colonies (beekeeper’s mantra–take your losses in the fall), I disbanded a colony whose queen had stopped laying eggs. There was […]
