Steven's Bees

Wow! This has been a weekend full of bee activities! Lots of pictures in this blog post. First, on Friday, I got a call from the person fr...

Brown Hive During last weekend's inspection, I didn't see any brood, eggs, etc. in the brown hive. I saw what I thought was a quee...

I recently purchased a book called Queen Rearing Essentials by Larry Connor, who is one of the experts in the beekeeping community concern...

The temperature got up to 60+ degrees F today - a perfect day to do some bee spring chores! This is going to be a long post, because I did a...

I can feel it! Spring is right around the corner! Lately it's still been pretty cool. The bees come out for a little on the warm days...

Earlier this month I announced that I found an extra jar of honey from last fall, and I would give it away to someone who either followed ...

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...