Last year I had the most exciting thing happen. I prayed for a swarm and it arrived right at the end of my front sidewalk! If you missed my exciting bee swarm capture last Spring, see it here. Here the North Texas Winter has been more like a long Fall complete with a...
Looking for the queen or evidence of her;brood or baby bee larvae. Wow, I had no idea managing a hive of bees was going to result in such a roller coaster of emotion! I was not kidding when I said I was impatient, so although I was told to wait a full week to check in...
You can see the queen in the cage on the upper left. For those of you that are waiting on the edge of your seats for the next episode of the top bar hive. I released the queen a few days ago! I have been instructed by the experts to leave them completely alone for a...
Ryan checking out the most intense part of the hive. Bruce ready to assist with smoke in the back ground. After my bee in my bonnet experience( see here) I decided I had better introduce this REALLY HOT hive to someone who actually knows what they are doing. Enter...
Getting frustrated! When I thought of raising bees, I though many things about how the experience would be. I thought the bees might be a bit scary(yes, sometimes) and I wondered how I would ever find the queen in all those bees.(still wondering) However, I never,...
