I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
I gave my faux Cerana hive 3 quarts of sugar water on Wednesday. When I poked my head in yesterday to see how they were enjoying it, I was surprised to see they had drained …
Perhaps I should just start tagging posts that aren’t false, given the seemingly endless stream of lies, half-truths and pure fiction that fill these pages. The latest bit of faux fact fun I posted was …
The good Lord giveth, and the good Lord taketh away, although not necessarily in that order. It’s been a month and a half since my last post, so lots has happened. First, despite our best …
In a post last year, I stated that the ratio of female to male bees in a hive is phi, or roughly 1.618, which is the same as the ratio of the number of seeds …
Per previous post, Michelle picked up our replacement queen, I found the old queen in Hive 1, crushed her head between my forefingers, and stuck the new queen in (with a frame of brood from …
Worried about the presence of drone cells and absence of worker cells a couple weeks back, I went into the hives to see what was up. As I feared, Hive 1 still had only drone …
Noticed this cool item on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, looks like it could come in handy: Several years ago I was rafting through an isolated gorge that separates Mexico and Guatemala…at least several days away …
We here at Hive Mind would like to give brief props to this past week’s guest apiarist, Peter “Flippyhead” Brown. After being safely sealed in Michelle’s Bee Wrangler bee suit and giving a hearty thumbs …
