What is happening: I went into my "Swarm hive" and noticed the entire upper box was filled with honey (no brood) so I checked the bottom box and identified eggs...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Fall Bee Treatment
What is happening: The honey supers are all off of the hives and I am down to two deep supers for brood chambers on all three hives. What I am...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Beekeepers Visit
My son and I recently paid a visit my friend Paul to check out how his bees were doing and see if he needed any assistance with his bees. Paul...
Alan’s Bee Chronicles – Oh Sweet Honey!
I decided to check on the swarm hive that I captured recently to see how they were as I had added a honey super. I noticed that the bees were...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Swarm Hive
I caught the swarm a week ago and was previously unable to find the old queen to replace her with a new queen. I went to find the old queen...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Supersedure
One week after I added my second deep super to both hives I wanted to check to see if they had moved up and cleaned up some of the frames...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Catching a Swarm
My wife Kelly and I got a text from friends of ours, Jason and Ann, who have a 5 acre farm near the river where we live. They reported seeing...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Packaged Bee Hive
If you remember last week (one week after I added the 2nd Deep Super) the queen had laid in 3 frames. This week I checked and basically all of the...
Bee Chronicles by Alan – Checking for Egg Laying
Vice President Alan Turanski reports on his bees progress. My hive from last year is going to have 3 frames of brood hatch soon which should help increase the population...
Beekeeping Calendar
The Bees Are... To Do List January - February (Is my hive alive) The bees have been dormant and it is time to see if/how they are surviving the winter....
Sustainable Beekeeping
One of the most rewarding ways to help our planet and some its most important inhabitants -- the bees, is to become an urban, suburban or country beekeeper. Bees can...
LESSON 14: Wintering the Hive
The honey bee colony has a remarkable capacity to adapt itself to great extremes in climate conditions when allowed to develop freely with ample stores of honey and pollen. As...
LESSON 12: How to Hive a Swarm
Swarming is an instinctive part of the annual lifecycle of the honey bee. The tendency is usually the greatest in the spring, when the bees increase their population rapidly before...