In the last five years or so, it’s been one thing after another in our bee yard. We’ve experienced everything from Africanized honeybees, pesticides, Varroa infestation, treatment resistant nosema, and Colony Collapse disorder. Last fall, we made the choice to enter winter without the use of antibiotics, nerve toxin, and the rest of the chemicals…
Category Archives: Bees
Thursday Thirteen : Odd, and interesting facts about honeybees
In honor of earth and arbor day, I decided to share some odd bee facts on Twitter. My friends on Plurk asked if I would share them on Plurk.  How could I not share them with you?!? I tried to pick facts that I haven’t shared before.  I’ve expanded the facts for the blog. …
Thursday 13 – Things you can do for honeybees today!
It’s that time of year again. Time to check the hives. From what I can tell, we started the fall with five hives and one survived. ?Sigh. No matter what anyone says, Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD is still an international issues. CCD causes full scale collapse of a healthy colony. As little as a…
123… it's prediction time!
I was tagged by Sue who was tagged by Darla. I was also tagged by Julia who was tagged by Darla as well. The universe has spoken… It’s time to do the page 123 meme. The rules are pretty simple, and here goes: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123 3….
When it rains, it… swarms?
Or How Claudia spent her weekend. Love the swarms… love the swarms… love the swarms…. the phone rings and off we go. Swarm catchers. This swarm was in a woman’s peach tree. She lived in Central Denver and insists that this is from a feral hive. Of course, we were all over that. (Feral would…
Swarm!
Between rain storms, a swarm flew into our yard.? Wanna see what happened? It started with a high buzzing sound.? When I went to check our bees, they were out on their porches defending their homes.? A cloud of bees came into the bee yard then were pushed out by our bees.? They landed in…
Bee update.
After waiting and pacing around for most of the morning, I watched the mailman’s back as he moved off our porch and on with his route on Saturday. No queenbee in sight. Two hours later, a breathless postman pounded on the door. Tucked under his jacket was a box from ZiaQueen. He said his boss…
Keep your fingers crossed….
With any luck, two ladies will arrive in my mailbox Friday….
Bee update.
Photo by Harlekwin – Bee in Pear Groves Spent quite a bit of time in my hives on Sunday and wanted to give you an update. My big hive? It’s big. There’s a lot of bees and no food. The bees are hungry and aggitated after 2 days stuck inside due to snow. Wouldn’t you…