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Posted in Bee Business on Oct 31st, 2011
Like the new logo? I think it’ll be more printer friendly…for t-shirts and business cards. I like it. As you know, Reader, I like things clean and simple. Jerod and I are working on a new website, too. Clean and simple. Soon, you’ll be able to buy some awesome TwoHoneys t-shirts there. And a [...]
Posted in Education on Sep 25th, 2010
I don’t love the telephone. However, these past few months I get a lot of calls about bees, and I like those calls a lot. Why? I don’t know…maybe because I’m never sure what situation will present itself, and that’s fun. These past couple of weeks, I’ll bet I get 2 or 3 calls each [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2010
I have good news, and I have bad news, Reader. Let’s go with the bad news first and get it over with. It’s not the worst news in the world, and we all sort of knew it was coming anyway. And better that it came early rather than late. Everyone said it would happen, and [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Sep 15th, 2010
Amazons swarmed again yesterday. I love that colony…they’re so vigorous. Yes, I think I know why they keep swarming, but I can’t think of a way around it. I was sitting on my deck writing a thing on my computer when I noticed a lot of bees. And then I realized it was a LOT [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 12th, 2010
Every day lately, Reader, I get a call about bees. People call me to say they have a swarm of bees in their attic or in their doorframe or in a tree trunk. They don’t really mean “a swarm.” A swarm is a mass of bees that hasn’t yet found its next home. The people [...]
Posted in Hive Management on Jul 20th, 2010
Success! Yesterday I inserted a box I fashioned from two shallows between my two brood boxes in Girls of Summer. They’re the most robust of our colonies, and they’ve been mighty crowded and hot and bearding like crazy. So, I pulled deep frames of brood up from the bottom box and into the center of [...]
Posted in Hive cycle on Jun 30th, 2010
The minute I put that wax melter out in the sun, the sun disappeared. Then the temperatures dropped. And no wax on earth will melt at 70 degrees and under cloudy skies. So, we’ll try when the weather heats up again. But doesn’t it feel great out there? Every single one of our windows is [...]
Posted in honey on Jun 7th, 2010
Reader, I know I got your hopes up for some honey. But I think our hopes may have flown off with the Amazon swarm. Yesterday’s inspection shows that all honey production has ground to a halt in Amazons. Because they swarmed, the remaining Amazons aren’t drawing comb or storing honey until their new queen gets [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 4th, 2010
Those bee colonies that swarm are strong, and I want strong bees. I hated that one of my hives died last year…the hive that died was always kind of slow compared to the Amazons (which I got as a result of a swarm from Chris’s hive). It makes sense that it you’ve got strong colonies, [...]
Posted in Hive Management on May 31st, 2010
After trimming trees around the house for much of the afternoon, we were taking a little iced-tea break on our deck. I began to see quite a bit of activity out in the bee yard…more than usual. It didn’t look like a swarm, but there were a lot of bees. You can see them when [...]