Linda's Bees

At 6:15 this evening I got an email forwarded from the president of our bee club to let me know that one of our members had a queen he did n...

Side note: This is my 880th post on this blog!

We haven't looked at the Blue Heron hives in over a month and we were scheduled to do an inspection there on Saturday.   Julia, Noah a...

The new top on Topsy is lifted off of the top bars by two sections of 1X6 nailed to the bottom of the cover. This creates space for ventilat...

I'm not going to be able to get the top box off of Colony Square without a ladder! And the nectar keeps coming. The tulip poplar flow is...

Here it sits, in the yellow paint of our farm hives, with markings on the front to help with orientation.  I haven't really checked on ...

Thanks to blog reader, Tom, in southeast Pennsylvania, I've learned why sometimes my bees start the comb in a foundationless frame at th...

Yesterday Lenox Pointe looked like this at the end of the day. Bees were hanging off the entry and lined up on the sides. Although you can...