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To Split or Not to Split To Split or Not to Split

A beekeeper should be thorough. I think I am, but my self-image of completeness is a wonderful façade that any master beekeeper would see through.…

Hive Health at the Solstice Hive Health at the Solstice

Being a schoolteacher doesn't allow me much time for beekeeping maintenance during the shorter days of winter. I leave for school in the dark (actually at sunrise, which can be quite spectacular) and I come back home in the dark.…

Fall Maintenance Fall Maintenance

Despite the recent tropical rainfall events and microcells that have uprooted 100-year-old oaks in the Northeast, the early fall weather has generally been friendly to local beehives. The weather has been hot, and fall flowers, like goldenrod, have thrived. As…

Plenty of Bees, but No Food Plenty of Bees, but No Food

A good beekeeper knows what's going on inside his or her hives. By now you know I am anything but a good beekeeper. Last weekend, after the 100-degree temperatures cooled a bit, my friend and I enjoyed an evening meal…

Time for the Second Story? Time for the Second Story?

A beekeeper should try to replace some of the brood comb every year or so. The brood comb, where the queen lays eggs, is heavy-duty comb - not the light wax that is found in comb honey or beeswax candles.…

Spring Planning Spring Planning

Ordering new hives, with the queen marked, but not clipped.…

Bears, Bugs and More Bumbling Bears, Bugs and More Bumbling

Out with Dr. Doolittle. In with barbed wire and mothballs.…

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