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Where the Bee Stings
Bee stings … an occupational hazard for beekeepers. The price paid for hosting hives and stealing their honey. I score about three hits per season, and they are generally deserved from carelessly zipping my beesuit. But honey bee stings don’t … Continue reading
Bee-line from Virginia
Question: When is a beehive hairy? Answer: When it grows a beard. A poor joke but it helps to kick-start a post about heating and air-conditioning. For most of the year, worker bees struggle to maintain the brood chamber in … Continue reading
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Tagged bee hive, beekeeper, hive bearding
Bee Swarm or Split
Beekeeping is like farming. All livestock—whether large animals with four feet or tiny ones with six—need food, water, shelter, and sometimes medication. Like an old farmer checking his herd in a meadow, I watch our ‘girls’ flying back and forth between … Continue reading
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Tagged bee hive, bee swarm, colony collapse disorder
Queen or Slave?
Slave! I forgot to say my second post is about bees. Yes … this blog now has a bee-line. In future, I’ll post some news from the hives, but in this one I am drawing a huge arc from a … Continue reading
