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…)
Curiosity killed the cat and will probably kill my bees, but I went back again today… minus the gloves. Not that I actually planned that. It’s just with all the other crap I had to drag along, I forgot them. Just as well. It’s too flippin’ hard to handle top bars with those fat leather gloves. This was right after I… (more…)