Brood
Not brood as in introspective and depressed – brood is the term for pre-adult honey bees. The queen lays an egg in a cell (up to 2000 a day) and 3 days later it hatches out into a larva – on day 8...
View ArticleMy first Year Keeping Bees
Those cone shaped bee hives are called skeps, and I’m pretty sure that the two simple wooden boxes are bee hives too. In most (if not all) of the United States the law requires that bees be kept in...
View ArticleHoney Bee Queen Rearing
This post is probably not going to be very interesting unless you keep honey bees – Or want to become a bee keeper. Sorry about that, but there will be more gardening content coming soon. Queen Bees –...
View ArticleHow to build strong bee hives for honey production – Ed Holcombe
To make a good honey crop requires: 1) A large population of foraging bees during the honey flow. 2) That they not swarm.
View ArticleBeginner to Beginner Queen Rearing
Using this easy system you can learn to produce high quality queen honey bees for yourself or for sale even if you only have a few hives.
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Honey Bees By Mail
My new bees hanging out at the hive entrance. The honey bees that I ordered last January arrived in the mail today – actually 4 weeks ago – but that’s when I started this post. As soon as I picked...
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Collapsed Honey Bee Comb Repair
Because of a mistake which I made my bees built crooked comb across the frames instead of inside of them. One week after putting my mail ordered package of honey bees into the hive I opened it up to...
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