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Since my last post, I have inspected the majority of my hives. On Sunday June 8th, we inspected hives a Burr Farm. I enlisted help of my husband to do the heavy lifting. BF#1 looks good and had plenty of signs of a laying queen, so I was happy with that. There was some weight…

I’m seeing positive results with these past two week’s inspections of my bees. I didn’t check every hive , just the ones that concerned me the most. Hives #6 and #8, I saw capped brood and larva in various of stages, I must have missed the eggs upon my last inspection. Hive #7, I saw…

I titled this post as “My Honeybees are Booming”, with the thought that many beekeepers, especially the commercial beekeepers, in this country had opened up their hives this spring with 60%-70% loss of their hives. I hope that those beekeepers can rebuild from those losses. I’m just a backyard beekeeper and I was lucky to…

On Sunday, I had plans to check out hive #4 and to add frames with pulled bee comb into hive #3 and Hive #7. Also to check on hive in #6 location to see if they have released the queen. Also, on my list was to split the hive that I had at Burr Farm.…

I decided to check in on my hives on Wednesday, well, at least 5 out of the 7 hives. It has become a natural process for me to move through the smaller, start up hives, compared to the hives that are larger. There are less bees that you are looking at in the smaller hives…

It has been quite busy tending to the bees since my last post. I have checked on the new split for queen development. I received my three packages of bees. I also removed the winter insulation on the hives that I have located at Burr Farm. For my three packages of bees, which I knew…

The days are warming up and it is time for the bees to go out forging. The trees are blooming and dandelions are out. I did hive inspections on all three hives. I’m happy with the results. First hive that I inspected was the hive at Burr Farm. They seem to be doing really well,…

I started a conversation with a local farmer back in July of 2024, Burr Farm, asking if I could keep honey bees on his farm. Gave him a little background information, my father is well known retired plumber and he knows my husband. His response was honey bees are good, yes, I wouldn’t mind if…

Happy first weekend of spring! I’m happy to report that there is positive activity on my remaining hives. I lost one hive out of the 4 that I went into the winter season with, which is better than the national winter losses 60% of honeybee losses in 2025. I haven’t dug in deep into the…

Some people may or may not know about the honey bees’ waggle dance. Honestly, it is not a subject that I have really dug in to research until recently. I knew that the bees did it, I knew I was a form of communication of resources. I have even seen it, but it wasn’t until…