Steven's Bees

As reported last time , I purchased some mini queen mating nucs. The mini frames within the nucs have a slot where you are expected to put a...

I decided to put in an order with Mann Lake Ltd., a beekeeping supply house. They have free shipping on orders of $100, which is pretty darn...

Today the temperatures were in the low 50's, and the weather is projected to be warm for the next week or so. I decided it was time to s...

Last Thursday I worked from home due to parent teacher conferences, and the weather happened to be warm enough for a hive check. Over lunch,...

The beekeeping "season" is generally divided by the winter. If you start a beehive from a package, you do so in April. If you had ...

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 ...