Anticipating a busy few weekends coming up. Tonight after work I'm driving north to pick up replacement queens for my hives, so sometime this weekend, I'll need to locate the current queens and remove her from the hive, let my hives rest for a day or so, then add the new queens. I've already decided I'm not going to do this next year and will ( Read more... )

I feel like there is both lots and little going on since my last post. While I followed up on the cat bite by going to urgent care, and my GP several times, I had a really terrible reaction to the antibiotics they put me on and ended up sick for over a week. When I had my wisdom teeth pulled a few years back they gave me clindamycin which caused C ( Read more... )

While coming home from work a few days ago I had to pause at the door a few minutes while a large bumble bee followed me down the side walk checking me out. I kind of gave it the eye, and figured it would move along on its own. Yesterday when I arrived home however the bee was back with a few of its friends. It seems they've found the perfect spot ( Read more... )

I was chatting briefly with a friend about beekeeping today, and realized that in a lot of ways, preparing for bees is somewhat similar to what I imagine preparing for a new baby feels like. Since moving into our house I've spent a lot of time focusing on garden issues, figuring out what spots get the best light, reading up on plants that are bee ( Read more... )

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Last night was my first beekeeping class. It was pretty informative overall, although I can't wait to get more into the biology and science of bees (nerd). Learned some interesting facts about bees and theories for colony collapse, some people are thinking that bees are just more sensitive to pesticides than humans and are the early warning sign ( Read more... )