Moving bees by the hive can be a backbreaking experience, especially if you are doing it by yourself. I know. I have been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it. I finally broke down and bought a hive lifter (sometimes called Hive Carrier, or Two Man Hive Lifter/carrier). The […]

I received a call from one of my customers yesterday. She is part of a group of people that cooks with honey. Usually there are six or seven gallons involved. I try not to bottle honey until it is ordered, which means I have to get two five gallon buckets of honey and […]

There is an article that suggests a virus coming from Australia is the cause for the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Seems that the pathogen, Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus, is paralyzing the bees or at least weakening them to the point of death, that the bees are dying outside of the hive.
The bee packages, […]

I sometimes get called upon to go and talk/teach students about honey bees. This time I was to talk to the kindergarten class at a private school. Since I did not have an observation hive, I needed to take a video with me to show the little ones moving bees.
I got there at the […]

I must tell you that when things go wrong, they seem to do it all together. When I didn’t have any bees for my observation hive, I thought that that was the end of my problems. It wasn’t. I had a workshop committee meeting about 25-30 miles away in Robertsdale, AL. and I […]

I have an appointment in the morning for a show and tell with a Kindergarten class. I cleaned my observation hive and went to the back yard where I had four hives ( two nucs and two full hives). The observation hive has a place for one deep frame of brood and a deep […]