Steven's Bees

It's hard to call this mid-winter given the mild weather we've been having. I think I've used my snow thrower a total of 2 times...

I couldn't believe it - the temperature got up to 52 degrees this afternoon! I still had to put out the bee candy on my backyard hives...

During warm weather, if you need to feed bees, you feed them a sugar syrup solution. But once the temperature drops below 40 or so, this won...

Not much has happened since the fall. In November I put on some jars of sugar syrup, but probably not enough. During the week of Christmas t...

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...