Thanksgiving and Christmas are over and I just sent my wife to Texas to visit her mother for two weeks. My middle son and his family, who are staying with us, just left to go up to the New England area to preach at one of his sponsoring churches, and maybe several other churches. I [...]

First off, I forgot to wish my readers HAPPY NEW YEAR! I wish you all have a wonderful and prosperous year with your bees. Remember, you cannot go back and correct what is done and past. However, from this point on you can improve on your time, beekeeping practices, and attitude. So that leads up [...]

Just when I thought everything was working out just right, I had a bombshell dropped on me. I had made plans with the school where the Bee Chautauqua was to be held. Now only 2 months away and several speakers have confirmed the date, I find out that the school had placed the time a [...]

I have recently received information that explains the weight issue on less frames/more honey. You can go to my post that touched on this subject and go to the comment section,  so you can follow a little better.
A shallow honey super weighs about 25.30 lbs.
A medium (Illinois) honey super weighs about 30-50 lbs.
A deep honey [...]

I never did find where the bees were coming from. By the time it stopped raining, it got cold and the bees are not flying. So I will just have to wait until a warm day comes back and try again.
My grandson and I finally went to the apiary to get the bees off the [...]

Sunday afternoon was spent letting my son and Daughter-in-law pack for him to go to Africa for two weeks. My grandson and I just chilled and stayed out of their way. We should have gone to check on the colony in a lady’s garden, but we didn’t. Too much going on here and we didn’t [...]

I haven’t had the time to try to find where the bees were living. You know, Thanksgiving and visiting with friends. Today, I took my grandson, age 11, to my friend’s house to pickup two barrels of Peppermint Candy that I bought three years ago. I had forgotten that I even had them. When we [...]

I was sitting on the front porch this afternoon taking a break. As I was thinking of the projects I need to put on my To Do list, I noticed some bees landing on some Spanish Needle in my flowerbed. They were apparently gathering pollen, as their pollen baskets on their hind legs were quite [...]

I have said Read, read, and read some more. Well—-I followed my suggestion and have been reading (following links via the web) about a beekeeper in Southeastern Nebraska who uses top entrances only. I think I want to try that here. Not for the same reasons that he does like: keeping the snow out of [...]

September 3, 2009 I collected a swarm in a tree. I brought it home and wanted to see if it would survive till winter. I had just decided 3 days ago to go ahead and feed it. However, when I went to check before I mixed some sugar syrup, it had finally succumbed to hive [...]