July 2008

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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Bee Swap!

I swear, you can’t make things like this up. Last year, Nerve.com published a Sex advice from a beekeeper article, featuring advice from yours truly, …

July 10, 2008

Growing

My neighbor Lesli popped over yesterday to drop off some empty jars. She’d been asking for a tour for some time, so I took advantage of the excuse to take a break and tend to …

July 9, 2008

Rorschach Declined

One of the treats of having bees in your backyard is that you can just sit down next to the hive whenever you feel like it and pass the time, watching them go about their …

July 6, 2008

Movin’ on up

Amanda, a reader of this blog, wrote to ask whether new supers generally go on top of existing honey supers or below. I answered that the second super usually goes on top, and after that, …

July 3, 2008

Wrong Way Follow-up

Alyssa gave me on update on the results of yesterday’s debacle: Well, this morning I went and found them just as we left them, all nestled into the nooks and crannies of the ivy and …

July 3, 2008

The Wrong Way

It’s amazing the things you know that you didn’t realize you knew. I got a call from Alyssa today, one of her three hives had swarmed and she wanted to know would I come over …

July 2, 2008