July 2007

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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Allergies and Honey

More confirmation that local honey can help alleviate allergies. The theory is that by eating a few spoonfuls of local honey each day for several …

July 30, 2007

Bee Sculpture, Part Next

(You’ll need to have read these two previous posts, in which I describe putting dolls into a bee hive in the hopes that they will form wax cells around them, for this to make any sense) I …

July 26, 2007

A Thousand Bees at a Thousand Typewriters

My bee sculpture looks like it’s going to be a success. You may remember that I tried coating some objects in a light film of beeswax, then placed them into the bee hive to see if …

July 13, 2007

Swarmin’

As noted a few days ago, the girls did, indeed, swarm, and I was a bit upset I missed it. I mean, if you’re going to lose half your hive to a sudden mass migration, …

July 10, 2007

Swarm

Michelle just called. One of the hives is swarming. I’m at work. Sigh.

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July 3, 2007

Ants in Second Life

For anyone that was interested in the post about how hive mind’s work or the similary themed talk I gave at Foo Camp, you might be interested in this YouTube video someone’s created of an …

July 3, 2007