Hive-mind Beekeeping

Just put in my order for two packages of Italian bees, due in April 16th . Prices are up, $104 + tax each for four pounders, marked queens. On advice from comments, I did some …

Ed, a reader, sent me an interesting link to an NPR story about a donation by Haagen Daz (the ice cream maker) towards bee research. They say it’s motivated by the fact that 40% of …

In my last post, I wrote that I was planning to measure the mite level in my remaining surviving hive and would report back the results. The result is that there is no surviving hive. …

Commenter “out” left a suggestion as to why I may have lost one of my hives (hint: not CCD). Noting that in North America, it’s not a question of whether you have mites, but rather …

Yesterday, I finally got around to checking the bees after returning from our three month sojourn in Europe and got a bit of a surprise. Hive 1, which was the weaker one when we left …

Imagine the looks on your friend’s faces when they open the box under the tree and out fly a brand new hive of bees! OK, that is probably not a great way to give bees, …

What are those little white dots speckling the cliff wall of this sharp-cragged ravine? Bee hives, of course. As previously noted, every man, woman and child in Europe is apparently a beekeeper, and there is …

Best as I can tell, every man, woman and child in Europe keeps bees. No really, I just can’t get over how every store, every market, every roadside stand is loaded with twenty different kinds …

The New York Times’ year end magazine special “The Year in Ideas” is always full of treats, and this year is no exception. For obvious reasons, my favorite is The Honeycomb Vase. Using similar principles …