Sweetness From Adversity?
All was well when my 8,000 bees finally came in the mail. but then the queen and her retinue became imprisoned.
View ArticleTime for the Second Story?
A beekeeper should try to replace some of the brood comb every year or so. The brood comb, where the queen lays eggs, is heavy-duty comb – not the light wax that is found in comb honey or beeswax...
View ArticlePlenty of Bees, but No Food
A good beekeeper knows what’s going on inside his or her hives. By now you know I am anything but a good beekeeper. Last weekend, after the 100-degree temperatures cooled a bit, my friend and I enjoyed...
View ArticleFall Maintenance
Despite the recent tropical rainfall events and microcells that have uprooted 100-year-old oaks in the Northeast, the early fall weather has generally been friendly to local beehives. The weather has...
View ArticleHive Health at the Solstice
Being a schoolteacher doesn’t allow me much time for beekeeping maintenance during the shorter days of winter. I leave for school in the dark (actually at sunrise, which can be quite spectacular) and I...
View ArticleTo Split or Not to Split
A beekeeper should be thorough. I think I am, but my self-image of completeness is a wonderful façade that any master beekeeper would see through.
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