Getting Them Mated
Kieler Mating Nucs The problem with beekeepers is that we are all cooped up for…
Category: Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Raising your own queen bees so that you don’t have to buy them from elsewhere will help make your beekeeping sustainable. Your queens will head your own colonies and any surplus can be sold.
How I Make Queens
One of my lovely queens with quite light coloured bees I'm good at learning from…
Size Of Queen Cells
Queen Cells It's only the 7th of May, and I've already done my second batch…
Queen Colour
A 2021 Queen It's a non-beekeeping day today, and we have had some much-needed rain…
Making Queens: Brother Adam Method
Buckfast Home Apiary 1965 (photo: David Kemp) The recent passing of David Kemp prompted me…
They Fly?!
Photo by Boba Jaglicic on Unsplash Raising queens has helped my beekeeping enormously. I have been able to…
Virgins etc.
Eggs laid in cells as quickly as workers build them I stumbled upon a fantastic…
Optimism
Honey bee and apple blossom Here in the UK, and presumably, across much of the…
Loving it!
A 2017 queen in 2020 The bees don't care about COVID-19; in fact, they seem…
Harsh Realities
Steve with Keiler Nuc There is that saying, "if it were easy, everyone would do…
Making Queens!
Buckfast Breeder Queen In my area, we are entering the busiest time of the beekeeping…
How’s your Dronage?
Drone: Makro Freak/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Drones are awesome. Everyone should love them, but…