I need to requeen all my hives not because I signed a piece of paper promising that I would implement Best Management Practices (BMP), but because I have never requeened in the Fall. I read that Fall queens will lay eggs longer because they are new queens and they haven’t learned to shut down as [...]

I haven’t tasted all the different honeys, but I have tasted several that are prevalent to this area/state (FL.) and some that were fermented. The latter is because the water content was too high and the honey soured. That is what you make meade out of, but that is another story for another time.
The question [...]

I attended this past Saturday, a workshop sponsored by the Tupelo Beekeepers Association. It was held at Laurence Cutt’s honey house in Chipley, FL. There were 150 registured participants and I would guess about half of them were new wannabee’s and about 1/4 th of the remaining were new beekeepers with one to three [...]

There are people who believe that the only way to raise bees is to put them in a 10 frame hive. There are some people who believe that a 9 framer is the best. Then there are those people who cannot physically maneuver 9 or 10 frame boxes. It is the latter that [...]

I had a call yesterday to come get some Killer Bees out of a tree. The caller said that the bees were attacking a bunch of people and that a dog down the street was killed by those bees.
I live in Pensacola, Florida, which is in the northwest of the state. The only African [...]

I have been almost frustrated with the rain lately. I have not been able to check my bees since I pulled honey and extracted. There have been things come along to keep me occupied such as; mowing grass here at the house, getting the inside of the house straighted up for company the week of [...]

I finally got off to Orlando. I was tired after extracting the honey. I didn’t get off as early as I had hoped, but I still got down there about 7:00 pm. I found the meeting place so I could go to it fairly easily the next day, June 13.
I was there at 15 minutes [...]

I decided to move my bees on June 11 in the morning, so I called my other young beekeeper to give him a chance to learn about moving bees. We made arrangements to meet at his house in Seminole, AL. about 7:30 in the morning. Along with Ed and his son, we piled into my [...]

I was on vacation for two weeks with my wife and siblings. When there was a lull in the festivities, I had plenty of time to think about my bees. I had decided to move bees when I got back. I wanted to move 6 hives to a Palmetto location where I have an apiary [...]

I did go to the apiaries to pull honey with my young beekeeper. I was expecting about 30-40 supers of honey and only collected five. I have two more that I can pull when I take an empty super to replace the full ones. This one hive is very strong. I split it one time [...]