Steven's Bees

Thanks to the generosity of the Sutton hives, I have honey to extract! I got out my new Maxant extractor that I bought this year, and gave ...

Saturday (2 days ago) I performed the pre-winter maintenance on the hives in my backyard. Since I took today as a vacation day, I decided to...

Well, not really - it's a while until Old Man Winter arrives. But it is time to start getting the bees ready for winter. In the wild, ...

So I've had a nuc in a friend's yard for quite a while, and for some reason the queen is just not laying like she should. Here...

On 9/5 I did an inspection of the backyard hives. It is getting late in the season, so I decided to also take whatever honey there was in th...