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.
Back around 10, 12 years ago, after my first harvest of honey, my housemates and I decided we’d brew ourselves some mead from some of our surplus bounty. Mead is simply honey wine: honey, water, …
Bad news on the bee disease front. As if Varroa Destructor (cool name for a parasite, eh?) wasn’t bad enough, there’s some new plague hounding the American bee population, Colony Collapse Disorder (originally Fall Dwindle Disease, …
I just did a Google search for “sorry I haven’t updated” and “blog”. 26,800 hits. Well, procrastiny loves company, as they ought to say. In my defense, while I haven’t updated this bee blog since …
I feel terrible. I’ve neglected my blog. The truth is, things got busy, I got a little behind, then I didn’t want to write because I knew I had to catch up on my backlog, …
I gave my faux Cerana hive 3 quarts of sugar water on Wednesday. When I poked my head in yesterday to see how they were enjoying it, I was surprised to see they had drained …
Perhaps I should just start tagging posts that aren’t false, given the seemingly endless stream of lies, half-truths and pure fiction that fill these pages. The latest bit of faux fact fun I posted was …
The good Lord giveth, and the good Lord taketh away, although not necessarily in that order. It’s been a month and a half since my last post, so lots has happened. First, despite our best …
In a post last year, I stated that the ratio of female to male bees in a hive is phi, or roughly 1.618, which is the same as the ratio of the number of seeds …
