I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
Noticed this cool item on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, looks like it could come in handy: Several years ago I was rafting through an isolated gorge that separates Mexico and Guatemala…at least several days away …
We here at Hive Mind would like to give brief props to this past week’s guest apiarist, Peter “Flippyhead” Brown. After being safely sealed in Michelle’s Bee Wrangler bee suit and giving a hearty thumbs …
Often, I try to imagine how I must appear to my bees. For some reason, despite their teeny nervous system and inconsequential little brains, I find myself desperate for their approval, like some little boy …
This weekend was the one week mark for the two new colonies in their new home, so Michelle and I cracked ’em open to see how things were going. For Michelle, this was her first …
Sorry to get all geeky on you for a sec, but if you happen to be reading this blog via an RSS aggregator, please change the feed URL over to http://feeds.feedburner.com/hive-mind/beeblog. It helps me know …