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Phil(thy) Sanchez forwarded me sad news today, that one of the pillars of modern beekeeping, “the queen bee among bee experts”, passed away last week. Eva Crane was 95. A few words from the New …

Apparently, I’m not the only one to have experimented with bees as sculptors. Brady forwarded me this beautiful piece from Boing Boing / How It Happened today, Turlough has created a hive in a belljar. …

Checked the hives today, and no new progress since I last checked (no surprise). As Michelle and I are leaving for our three month trip through Europe (where we will hopefully tour and blog about …

Went out this afternoon to see if my strategy of coating the plastic frames with beeswax would encourage the girls to build them out with comb. Mixed results. It definitely worked in the sense that …

It’s all official. After 11 years at Microsoft, I’ll be taking a little break and heading out on an extended vacation before joining up with a smaller company or startin’ my own gig. My little …

Bad news on the beeswax front: I checked both hives tonight, and no new drawing of comb in either hive. I realized, though, that I can’t blame it entirely (or perhaps at all) on the …

The girls have been very hot recently. I wanted to take a quick peek in to see how they were adapting to the new frames I gave them, so I just barely cracked the lid …

Back in early July, I got a recipe for home made ginger ale from my neighbor, Lesli. I finally got to try it out, and it’s absolutely delicious. I made two bottles, one as described …

Lots of good comments in response to yesterday’s post on plastics, thank you all! Quick round-up: Plastic is evil: So I’m learning. Bees often don’t draw new comb in late summer: I don’t much feel …