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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.… |
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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.… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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.… |
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Spring Planning Ordering new hives, with the queen marked, but not clipped.… |
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Bears, Bugs and More Bumbling Out with Dr. Doolittle. In with barbed wire and mothballs.… |
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