May 2006

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.

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Drone Layer

Worried about the presence of drone cells and absence of worker cells a couple weeks back, I went into the hives to see what was …

May 28, 2006

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 …

May 20, 2006

Flippyhead

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 …

May 19, 2006

Droning

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 …

May 16, 2006

Burrilliant

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 …

May 8, 2006

New RSS Feed

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 …

May 2, 2006