Steven's Bees

At Friday's Bee Club meeting, Ken Warchol (Worcester County Bee Inspector) mentioned that he is seeing a lot of starvation in hives thi...

Yesterday was the January meeting of the Worcerster County Beekeepers Association . I hadn't been to a meeting since October, as for No...

Happy New Year! And what a wonderful way to start the new year - with temps about 52 degrees. I decided to walk back to the hives (first ti...

I got an e-mail from a work friend wondering if I had taken ill, as I had not updated this blog in a while. I was touched by his concern fo...

Today was great bee-weather! The temperature got up to 60 degrees, and the bees were out this morning. Here is a picture of my backyard hive...

The bees are into the winter mode of operation - with the weather being cold (less than around 50 degrees) they don't go out. So they st...

We've had a few weeks of really fall weather now, but today was amazing - a true "Indian Summer" day. The temps were in the hi...

Yesterday evening I started the process of extracting the frames I had. I wanted to spin them out last night, so the honey would strain thro...

My friend Tom keeps reminding me of the last time I updated the blog - it was September 6. So it's been a little over a month. I had a...