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 […]

After moving the bees the day before, I decided to extract the honey in the morning time as the temp. was kinda low, 99 degrees. I have a problem right off the bat. My air conditioner went out and the box fan had burned the motor up and I had no more options. I had […]

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 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 […]

I had a call from a landowner about my bees. It seems that he had left a gate open to a closed area in which I have a colony. Normally I have anywhere from one to ten colonies at this location. I moved all but one back to my main apiary for the winter […]

After reviewing what I needed in the hives, I met my young beekeeper and his friend who had decided to tag along and see what the fuss was about bees. We met as I was eating breakfast and they had coffee. You don’t have to be a coffee drinker to be a beekeeper, but you […]

6 posts ago, I said that I would “write about my bee yards”, in the next post. Well as you can see I had other posts on the net before I put what I said. Sorry. “Better late that never”.
I went to the last 5 apiaries today just to see what has to be […]

I was reading my Bee Culture, reading Yahoo forum, and daydreaming when I had a flashing thought. I tried to find the basis for this thought, but came up with a blank. I realized that the Spring major Wildflower nectar flow here in NW Florida is nearly over with if one wants to go to […]