Tag Archives: Beekeepers

A Honey Bee’s Hive Is Her Castle

And the girls will defend their castle to the death, literally. I found that out the hard way.  It just one of those really stupid things to do.  Trying to write about it now, with hands swollen enough to look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy, makes matters worse. The itching and burning make it down right miserable.  Hang on, gotta soak my… (more…)

My Honey Bees are Pigs

Who would have guessed?  Feeding honey bees…. well, now that I’ve been keeping bees for all of a few months, I can see the need, at least in the beginning. They have no reserves from the previous year in their new hive and the nectar wasn’t flowing when they were installed in the early spring.        So I had tried quail… (more…)