So last week, Robie and I vacuumed up the bees in our porch column. We locked them inside a hive with a bunch of their honeycomb for a couple days in and effort to reset their sense of home. This morning, I put their hive on top of our existing hive with a double screen […]

not quite the same as a porch monkey.
Recently, our beehive swarmed and a good portion of them moved into the column of my porch. That was three weeks ago. Last night we opened the column to move them out. WOW! they really moved in.

I got to use my bee vacuum and it […]

Bees swarm. Not only do the bees themselves need to reproduce, the hives also reproduce. If there were only one hive throughout time, that wouldn’t bee very prudent. The queen bee mates with several drones from other hives at the beginning of her life. To multiply hives, the hive divides in two and half of […]

Robie’s not the only one who can mess with the bees.

Robie and I took a beekeeping class htis past Saturday and we’ve decided to take the plunge. The guy teaching the class had an extra "Nuc" of bees that we bought from him on Sunday. On Monday morning, I got the stuff needed to setup a hike and last night we moved the bees into […]