Four Apiaries and a Wedding
Mr Jowls of Jowlstown I feel pretty good about how things have gone as I head towards the end of my beekeeping season. There have been some ups and downs, but I've learned new things and made progress as both…
Category: Autumn
Keeping High Standards
The Walrus makes great honey! It's that time of the year when it's time for me to start to get my hives ready for the winter. I'm currently treating all of them with Apivar, which means that the evil varroa…
Summer’s Lease Hath all too Short a Date
William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date (William Shakespeare, from Sonnet 18)…
The “Fall Four” by sassafrasbeefarm — Beekeeping365
Here’s a repost from last year. I find it timely especially for those new at keeping bees. ~sassafrasbeefarm I find myself digging ever deeper into the void of my beekeeping knowledge. It seems the more you think you know, the…
The Perils of Late Supersedure
supersedure_cell For those that do not know, which probably means all non-beekeepers, supersedure is what happens in a beehive when the bees make a new queen to ultimately replace the existing queen. The other way of doing this is by…