Steven's Bees

Earlier this week I took down the dead Green Hive and cleaned out the frames of the dead bees. I stored the hive in my garage for the time ...

The weather was warm last Friday, and the bees were out. You can see they hanging out on the front of the hive, with the snow still visible ...

I mentioned in previous blog entries that one of my backyard hives is dead. The weather was nice enough that I started taking it apart (this...

It was a nice balmy day today, with the temperatures in the mid 40's (°F). I did a quick check of the bees in the backyard, just liftin...

For most of my life, I didn't care about the various seasons. When it got warm, it got warm. But since I have been keeping bees, I have...

Bad news for the Sutton hives - both are dead. When I visited them last month, only one hive was dead. I put sugar candy on the live hive,...

I just noticed it's been a month since I put up a Bee Blog post. Like I have mentioned before, the winter time is when you do as little ...

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...