Steven's Bees

Today was the September meeting of the Worcester County Beekeepers Association . The theme of the meeting was Final Fall Preparations. It wa...

Friday and Saturday were dank and rainy - not a lot of chance for the bees to be out (although I did see the bees flying Saturday afternoon ...

I fed the bees tonight. I filled up their sugar syrup feeders (upside down plastic peanut butter jars with small holes in the lid). The feed...

Well, I've discovered bees can be very persistent. I mentioned before about my bees discovering a bucket of wood + water, and made it t...

We have a compost pile, and the kids tossed some watermellon rinds on it. I want out and saw that there were some bugs which were loving the...

This past week the weather has been gorgeous - temperatures in the 70's and 80's; lots of sun; and no rain. I've been watching t...

Saturday is the day I usually do inspections, but it rained cats and dogs yesterday. It was supposed to rain all day today, but it turned ou...

On Saturday I sprayed down the white plastic corrugated boards with cooking spray (to make them sticky) and slid them under the beehives. On...

Here's a video I found showing some of the Honey Bee life cycle. It is along the lines of a Discovery channel video. I found it very int...

Time for the regular weekly inspection, and boy was it a scorcher! The temperature was in the 80's, and it was very humid (a storm came ...