Honey Bee Suite

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• The iterative method of swarm capture
• My husband made me do it
• Bumble bee on piggy-back plant
• A beekeeper's trip to Corvallis
• Details of the Taranov split
• Another take on Taranov
• Crimson clover in bloom
• My zombie flies: pets I could do without
• The great divide: a Taranov split
• Intercast queens and swarm guards
• Do Brussels sprouts need pollination?
• My bees swarmed right after installation
• Easiest package installation ever
• Bee Craft: the best of the bee journals
• How to use a swarm guard
• Why do I feel like "Dear Abby?"
• My teacher says bees have five eyes. She's creepy.
• The best in sanitary practices?
• Installing a new package of bees
• Is it a good idea to feed my neighbors' bees in hope they will swarm here?
• Can I start a new package on honey instead of syrup?
• How long before a new beehive begins to forage?
• How close together can I put my hives?
• How to clean up from Nosema apis
• Mice ate our bees
• Apivar vs ApiLife Var vs Apiguard
• Are their ethics loose in the package too?
• Do honey bees leave the hive in the winter and return in the spring? Ours are gone now.
• Outwitting the mites
• Why do honey bees need fur?
• The language of bee and honey
• Mentoring the mentor
• Does pasteurization of honey kill Clostridium botulinum?
• Can humans catch bee dysentery?
• Why do my bees turn nasty when I kill them?
• Did mites kill my bees?
• My first bee photos of the season
• Does your honey have that new-car smell?
• Do honey bees pollinate wheat?
• What is a section super?
• Is a honey bee a single-celled organism?
• Excluding your queen . . . or not
• Is Africanized honey bee venom more toxic?
• The long and short of honey bee tongues
• Keeping bees . . . in Chinese
• What is idiopathic brood disease syndrome?
• A bully of a bumble
• Is wearing blue waterproof trousers bad for bees?
• Does pink pollen make pink honey?
• Why did they die?
• How do I make my queen bee come to me?
• The big bad dirty
• Actually, I was thinking of absconding
• A winter bee?
• Native bee forage: European centaury
• What they didn't teach you in bee school
• Can you eat honeycomb and swallow?
• How to make a vertical split
• Honey bee forage: red deadnettle
• Just fifteen mints of your time
• Crimson and clover
• English for beekeepers
• Cemetery honey, Tennessee style
• Ick! Mold in my hive!
• Beekeeping in the Himalayan Highlands
• How to make a split
• Cooking with honey
• The sugar syrup diaries
• A personal note to cranky old beekeepers
• How to attract bumbles to an artificial nest
• How to cut comb honey
• The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar
• What's hopping on my bottom board?
• Should you trust your bees to Phil?
• The syrup solution
• Bumble bee defecation
• Are bees insects or animals?
• Update on bee forage plants
• How much pesticide in commercial foundation?
• It’s pink with star-shaped petals . . .
• A sting in winter
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee
• What’s new at Honey Bee Suite?
• Recipe for dry pollen substitute
• She's been framed!
• The continuing saga of Signal Mountain honey bees
• How to make fondant from table sugar
• How to make hard candy from table sugar
• My bees have lost their sweet little minds
• Recipe for wintergreen grease patties
• And now . . . normal wax scales
• Syrup does not belong in a cold hive
• Opening the hive in winter
• The dead of winter
• January in the apiary
• Lekking for love
• Glory, peace on Earth, good will toward all
• A new use for old socks
• What is incomplete pollination?
• Mites on a bumble bee
• Alkali bees, the alfalfa specialists
• Twenty-five holiday trinkets for beekeepers
• What is first-rinse water?
• No extractor, no problem
• Varroa mites feeding on a sick bee
• Yellow rain
• December in the apiary
• Housekeeping, blogger style
• Housekeeping, honey bee style
• Things we forget to remember
• Absconding or CCD?
• Is it a hive or a colony?
• How many hives to start?
• A bear with table manners
• Out of sight, out of mind
• Mean neighbors using your site against me
• Why so many wings and legs?
• Should I keep bees?
• Watch out! They bite!
• Why tip my hive?
• A butterfly emerges
• Honey bees on a camping trip
• Hive humidity affects mite reproduction
• Breakfast in the apiary
• Does honey cause diarrhea?
• Mitekeeping for everyone
• Count down till winter
• Honey bee dysentery and water
• Can bees eat crystallized honey?
• Bovard rack? Really?
• Prepare your hives for winter
• Zombees arrive in Washington
• To improve the cluster, destroy the nest
• Why are my bees dying in the grass?
• Partially capped frames: what to do?
• For my friends in the U.K.
• Robbing bees: questions and answers
• The secret of purple honey
• An immense observation hive
• Fretting over fall inspections
• Just hanging out
• Waxing eloquent
• The secret to brushing bees
• Knotty but nice for bees
• Mite management in large hives
• The trouble with triples
• Tiny spider on a zip-line
• Pollen tramps I have known: Isabella
• Triple deep questions
• Triple deep hives in mid-summer
• A bull in the beeyard
• My worst beekeeping day ever
• Shame on the photo thieves
• The best bee butt photo
• Alkali bees face death by highway
• How I photograph bees
• Vandals in the beeyard
• The bee project of Shangri-la
• A light in the attic
• Does pollen cause crystallization?
• Liquid gold
• Flies with a wicked thirst
• The logistics of pollen
• Mite it bee the scutellum?
• Beekeeping in Thailand
• Danger in the borage
• Fit for a frog blog
• The mystery of the dead drones
• The allure of decapitation
• Drought and the water content of nectar
• Let us see your beehives!
• What is honeydew honey?
• Beekeeping in the dog days of summer
• The hum of the hive
• A fight with the varroa mite in New Zealand
• Fecal retention in bee larvae
• Trekking for pollinators
• Fluffy bums and fault lines
• Mason bee covered in mites
• Queenless or clueless?
• Thursday's bees
• Pyramiding: getting bees to move up
• Bumble bee with mixed pollen
• Pollinator week: what’s the point?
• Daffodil seeds are easy to get
• One that got away
• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my
• A beer box for bees
• A hive of a different color
• Painting the inside of beehives
• A royal jelly factory in New Zealand
• Bees on a dairy farm
• The Zen of bees
• The best ventilated gabled roof
• Of mites and men
• Hive five: the best ventilation equipment
• How to make an overnight split
• The birds and the bees
• To gleefully bludgeon a beemudgeon
• The catch-22 of beekeeping
• Honey bee forage: Pacific waterleaf
• Extracting Australian watermelon honey
• Update on ants
• Great expectations
• Managing packages and swarms
• And I thought bumbles were big
• Honey bee forage: vine maple
• News clip about neonicotinoids and honey bees
• Post-package anxiety
• Bumble bee on cherry laurel
• Bad-ant advice and the ascension of bees
• Out for a drink
• Invasion of the Asian honey bee
• A reader's questions answered
• Seven types of beekeeping advice to avoid
• Rachel Carson Forum: opening remarks
• Bees that bring a tear to your eye
• Love that dirty water
• Robin Hooding in the Outback
• Honey bee forage: black locust
• Return of the black honey bee
• Heavy metal accumulation in honey
• A morning snack of cedar planks
• Gone, gone away
• On the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring:
• How many bees fit in a city?
• Capital Growth yields . . . veggies?
• How to build a bee block
• Native pollinators: bumble bees
• Of feral colonies and varroa mites
• Beekeeping myths, half-truths, and rumors
• Runway lights for honey bees
• Through a screen darkly
• It's time to think about wasps
• The irony of complaining
• Announcement: the ultimate dilemma
• Another rendition of rendering beeswax
• Doing the Mississippi splits
• Who’s to blame, masons or carpenters?
• How to move a hive any distance
• And you thought extracting was messy . . .
• Thy neighbors' bees
• The dead hive that isn’t
• How to kill bees with soapy water
• Why do brood combs turn black?
• Pollinator walls, bee towers, and insect hotels
• The biggest threat to bees today . . .
• Are you a natural beekeeper?
• Planting for honey bees
• What's an unlimited brood nest?
• Revenge of the cattle dog
• How to make a screened inner cover
• Demaree demystified
• A bee in my bonnet
• Physics for beekeepers: heat loss from spheres
• Tangled up in blue
• How to open the brood nest
• Messing about with beehives
• Airtime for bees
• Swarm sense
• Honey bee forage: bee bee tree
• How to checkerboard a hive
• Checkerboarding: the X-files of beekeeping
• Backfilling the brood nest
• A lounge of lizards on a Langstroth
• More on triple-deep hives
• Searching for humor
• Sipping bug juice through a straw
• Rethinking the triple-deep hive
• Did the bees find their keeper?
• Hopping mad at HopGuard
• Should my hive tilt forward?
• Shedding gloves naturally
• Buy seeds, not ‘cides
• Groundhog stung on nose, scrambles for cover
• Is tree honey slow to granulate?
• The beginner hive: Langstroth or top bar?
• USDA updates hardiness zones
• How much honey for a warm winter?
• Monitoring mites with a sticky board
• The day the trees fell
• A special note to my readers . . .
• One for the road
• Beekeepers come and go
• What is a brood pattern?
• Wild pollinators cannot replace honey bees . . .
• Banking frames hold multiple queens
• Carrot honey . . . really!
• Sugar slurry: another feeding option
• Ten questions about Mountain Camp feeding
• A fly in the hive causes bees to flee
• Must I feed a new package of bees?
• Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A
• One beekeeper's New Year
• Cockerell's bumble bee makes a comeback
• Baking with honey
• Bee season is here!
• Wednesday wordphile: terroir
• Tamarisk honey: a dark secret
• Winter feed Q & A: liquid vs solid sugar
• Physics for beekeepers: Why bees can eat solid sugar in winter
• Physics for beekeepers: heat transfer in sugar syrup
• Pasteurizing honey . . . whatever for?
• The parralel's of diksion, speling, an grammer
• Occupy the barren landscape
• Beekeeping videos from the 1930s
• Book review: Honeybee by Marina Marchese
• Honey so bland it’s boring
• So is it honey or not?
• Wednesday wordphile: vitellogenin
• Just the facts, ma'am
• Is organic sugar better for bees?
• Giving thanks to the bees
• Wednesday wordphile: precocious foraging
• Faster than the speed of mite
• Pesticide residues in brood comb
• Cemetery honey
• Bees from coast to coast agree . . .
• New bees on the block
• Bees with quilts: spendy but cute
• Small cells do not control Varroa mites
• Wednesday wordphile: pollination ecology
• "Buzz Away" is not bee repellant
• Monday morning myth: no-forage zones
• The feds forced me to use insecticide
• Science and HoneyBeeSuite
• Honey bee quilt show
• Why feed sugar syrup at all?
• Pollinators on clematis
• Why won’t my bees cap their syrup?
• Turning syrup into honey?
• To wrap or not to wrap
• Why didn’t I get more honey?
• What beekeepers do in winter
• Granulation: a stirring experience
• Preparing a top-bar hive for winter
• Why I hate ants
• An e-mail from my husband
• What about the other 125 species of maple?
• How I scared away a new beekeeper
• Monday morning myth: freezing won't kill wax moths
• Why did my honey granulate?
• The allure of bigleaf maple honey
• A very simple rain shelter
• Captives who change allegiance
• How to stop robbing
• Pesticide residue in urban honey: yes or no?
• Yellowjacket redux
• Re-thinking the queen excluder
• Yellowjacket nest falls from the sky
• How to combine colonies using newspaper
• How to prepare your hives for winter: a checklist
• The ABC & XYZ of Beekeeping
• Is there a way to feed wild bees?
• Crushing and straining . . . and moaning
• Wednesday wordphile: honey flow
• How to move a hive
• Monday morning myth: bees need a front porch
• Yellowjacket traps
• Why so many new beekeepers quit
• How to remove propolis from your camera
• HopGuard: first impressions
• Victory! I think . . .
• Tiny bee builds flower-petal nests
• Avoid a honey drip free-for-all
• Update on Copyright Infringement
• Essence of dead drone
• Copyright Infringement
• In service to her majesty
• A morning sip of nectar
• Wednesday wordphile: proboscis
• MBeeA bees schedule honey production
• "Let the bees be bees" Really?
• Of poltergeists and entrance reducers
• Can powdered sugar control Varroa mites?
• Hive five: equipment to improve summer ventilation
• Deformed wing virus
• Bee abortion
• The truth about organic honey
• Wet cappings vs dry cappings
• Physics for beekeepers: How does ventilation increase honey production?
• Are we listening to the honey bee's message?
• What is biodynamic beekeeping?
• Yellow jackets and honey-robbing bees go hand-in-hand
• Fifteen ways to attract pollinators to your yard
• Native bee forage: California lilac
• What history tells us about hive ventilation
• Drone eviction in July?
• A quick way to paint supers and ekes
• Bees and their families
• Honey bee forage: lovage
• More thoughts on urban beekeeping
• The real reason those supers are still empty
• Should a new super go on the top or the bottom?
• A rare case of "honey intoxication" in Seattle
• How to make bees go through a queen excluder
• Bee sweet and don't ask me such things!
• Summer in the city: urban hive inspections
• In(sect)flation and honey bees
• Wednesday wordphile: bee sting cake
• Is too much hive inspection a bad thing?
• Bee suit-related stress syndrome: why they drive me mad
• Native bee forage: salmonberry
• A perfect swarm
• Two queens in one hive
• Summer ventilation increases honey yield
• Why do bees collect on the bottom board?
• Mason bees fill up their nests
• Hive five: must-have beekeeping supplies
• What size hardware cloth is best for beehives?
• How to over-winter a nuc
• How to keep queen bees in reserve
• One trap catches two swarms . . . at the same time
• One tree, three swarms
• "A swarm in June . . ." No, make that two
• A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon
• An open letter to Phillip and HB
• Never trust a queen
• Are they worker bees, girls, or units?
• Wednesday wordphile: bee space
• Buttercup bees: they are what they eat
• Romancing the swarm: the dream of wild bees
• Bees of a different color
• Queen rearing vs queen breeding
• A bit more about VSH
• Wednesday wordphile: hygienic behavioral disorder
• Playing hide and seek with a queen . . . or two
• That busy beehive smell
• How to avoid squishing bees
• Splitting the top-bar hive with a shook swarm
• What is a trap-out?
• Wednesday words: queen-rearing terminology
• Bees vs. mouse: a skeleton tells the story
• Queen rearing methods
• Even painted boxes warp
• Mason bee condo filling up
• Bumble bee on azalea
• Honey bee forage: curlycup gumweed
• Why nectar doesn't run out of the comb
• Wednesday wordphile: survivor stock
• Drowning in drones
• You are a stranger to your bees
• What is entombed pollen?
• Sun or shade: which is best for the bees?
• Wednesday wordphile: grafting
• How to do a simple brood nest inspection
• The dissemination of misinformation
• Bee with bi-pollen disorder?
• Beekeeping is not rocket science
• Cell phones and bees: hang up and forage!
• Honey bees: be good and eat your greens!
• Floral fidelity yields pure pollen pellets
• Freeze combs to prevent wax moth damage
• How to use an eke
• Mississippi honey: the sweetest gift
• Beehive records: in praise of paper and pencil
• Pollen variety and bee health
• How to attract bees to your garden
• Monday morning myth: attendants must be removed from queen cages
• Where the wild things are
• I love bees, but beekeeping? Not so much.
• Why so many starving bees?
• The perils of spring
• Drones signal the onset of swarm season
• Honey bee forage: Chinese tallow tree
• Wednesday wordphile: scopa
• “Why did my bees leave?”
• Waiting for honey bee drones
• Bumble bee on vinca
• Nosema and dysentery are not the same
• Visitor to the top-bar hive
• Plant-pollinator mutualisms and biodiversity
• Wednesday wordphile: eke
• How to start a queen in a two-frame nuc
• Can a Texas bluebonnet change its spots?
• Honey bees collect Alaska cedar pollen
• Honey, what's that smell?
• How to tame a baggie feeder
• A hive stand fit for a queen . . . or a swarm
• Mason bees waiting for sunshine
• An update on "How I overwintered ten out of ten"
• How to mark a queen
• Native bee forage: bird's eyes
• My design for a bait hive
• Wednesday wordphile: ocellus (plural: ocelli)
• Great minds who loved honey bees
• 2011 is a year for white queens
• How I overwintered ten out of ten
• Use caution when removing entrance reducers
• The worst day of my blogging life
• Wednesday wordphile: phenology
• Monday morning myth: clipped wings prevent swarming
• How to make starter strips
• Why buy eight-frame hive equipment?
• Wednesday word file: footprint pheromone
• Yet another take on follower boards
• Monday morning myth: honey is bee poop
• What vitamins should I give to my bees?
• Should the number of frames in each box be the same?
• Slatted racks: how should the slats be arranged?
• How to make follower boards for a Langstroth hive
• A slow drink of cool water
• Wednesday word file: slumgum
• How many frames should you put in a Langstroth box?
• Who pollinates the daffodils?
• ABJ: Where’s the diction, grammar, science?
• Measuring the bone pile: death in the hive
• Native bee forage: baby blue eyes
• Wednesday word file: pollination saturation
• Why is comb honey so expensive?
• HopGuard section 18 approvals
• Rotate brood combs for a healthier nursery
• HopGuard: update
• The essence of beekeeping is not in the hive
• “Hive Tracks” boxes the beekeeper
• Wednesday word file: sonication
• Monday morning myth: bees don’t like crimson clover
• Why unpainted hives are a bad idea
• Native pollinator: wool carder bee
• How long should I feed a new package of bees?
• Honey bee forage: hardy kiwi
• Wednesday word file: nectar guide
• Why every beekeeper should have a nuc
• Another good reason to eat chocolate
• Monday morning myth: alder pollen is bad for bees
• Snacking on sugar cakes: it’s a bee thing
• A cup fit for a queen
• Don’t toss the honey with the wash water!
• What to do with moldy combs
• Wednesday word file: forage
• Dead bees all over the place!
• Native bee forage: five spot
• First signs of spring
• Reversing brood boxes: is it necessary?
• Honey bee forage: pussy willow
• Mistakes commonly made by new beekeepers
• Wednesday word file: pollinia
• Spring caution: handle the brood nest with care
• Notes on cooking sugar syrup
• How to assemble a bee box
• Possessed by honey bees
• A hive by any other name is still a hive
• How to make protein-enriched candy boards
• Wednesday word file: super
• How to make a cut-down split
• How to make a walkaway split
• How to start multiple hives from a swarm-control split
• How to make a swarm-control split
• Wednesday word file: skep
• Monday morning myth: small-cell foundation discourages Varroa mites
• A great day for honey bees: down with dysentery
• How acidic is honey?
• So what does the average honey bee cost?
• Wednesday wordphile: floral fidelity
• How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive
• Monday morning myth: Africanized honey bees are Apis mellifera scutellata
• Bees and pets: what are the risks?
• Will cream of tartar harm my honey bees?
• How to get started in beekeeping
• Beekeeping essentials for the beginner: Langstroth hives
• Wednesday wordphile: trophallaxis
• How and where should I store empty supers?
• Temperature regulation in a winter cluster
• Readers: How do you remove bee poop stains from laundry?
• Why are all my bees at the top of the hive?
• Honey bee species around the world
• End of the year tale: how I write HoneyBeeSuite
• A bee in the bra is worth a dozen anywhere else
• Wednesday word file: protandry
• Pollen can carry disease to native bees
• Christmas swarm saved by caring homeowner
• Wednesday word file: last sting-of-the-year
• Pollinators are not going to change, so we have to
• “Stocking stuffers” for your favorite beekeeper
• Anise is an all-time bee favorite
• Tropilaelaps clareae: another scary creature for bees
• Dead queen on the landing board
• Is there an environment the EPA actually protects?
• Time to order bees for next year
• Five favorite plants for the bee garden
• Wednesday word file: pollination syndrome
• The secret of bee tea . . . remains a secret
• Dances with bees: a beekeeping philosophy
• Comb honey production part 3: Bee-O-Pac system
• Brooklyn bees pig-out on maraschino cherry syrup
• December in the bee yard
• What is a wired frame?
• Wednesday word file: fructose
• Bees benefit from an energy conservation professional
• Honey bee myth: bees don’t sting at night
• Usurpation: when one colony takes over another
• Thanksgiving dinner—thanks to the bees
• Wednesday wordphile: phoresy
• Small but mighty: mites in the beehive
• Monday morning myth: honey bees hibernate
• Comb honey production part 2: cut comb
• Moving day for the nucs
• Ventilation in a hot & humid climate
• How to keep 2:1 syrup from crystallizing
• Wednesday wordphile: travel stain
• Monday morning myth: royal jelly is good for you
• From the far side of the pond: AntBlog
• Bee-yond bee-lief: drama in the media
• Shaking the queen into shape
• HopGuard: the new Varroa pesticide
• A night in the lecture hall: students, bees, and pesticides
• Wednesday word file: drone congregation area (DCA)
• Chunk honey: a strange hybrid
• Foundationless colonies raise more drones
• Comb honey production part 1: The why of it
• A warm, dry day is good for winter bees
• Wednesday word file: frass
• The how and why of bee beards
• Monday morning myth: creamed honey is whipped
• The CCD connection: what I believe about colony collapse disorder
• Migratory beekeeping and honey bee health
• A beekeeper’s winter “to do” list
• On entoms, pesticides, and human extinction
• Berry busy berry bee
• All the better to see you, my dear!
• A tip for torrential rains
• One for the road: Bees with a buzz
• A time for every purpose: temporal castes in honey bees
• Native bees should not be managed like farm animals
• Honey refractometers measure moisture content
• Propolis is easy to remove in cold weather
• A tale of honey bees and barbecue sauce
• Mountain melancholy signals a change of season
• What to do with uncapped honey
• Why did my honey crystallize and then ferment?
• Why do honey bees abscond in the fall?
• Honeysuckle sawfly: a nectar-sipping wasp
• Mining bees are wild bees that live underground
• Classification of western honey bees
• Dazzling dandelion pollen makes a fall comeback
• Plant pollination yields seeds, the key to agriculture
• How I threw a banquet for yellow jackets
• Candy board fact and fiction
• A face to remember
• What makes honey bees aggressive?
• Milkweed surfaces as a green alternative
• Rings and beekeepers: Will the circle be unbroken?
• Why are bee suits white?
• Casting light on castes
• The role of fat bodies in bee health
• Milkweed fairies due for a comeback
• Are your honey bees ready for winter?
• Freezing honeycomb protects it from wax moth damage
• Entrance reducers can annoy your honey bees
• Monarch butterflies are losing habitat
• Thixotrophic honey gels in the comb
• How to convert sugar syrup to a different ratio
• Bumble bees hibernate, honey bees do not
• Honey bees ignore swarm traps
• Habitat fragmentation produces inbred bumble bees
• Bee flies require a second look
• Using extender patties is a criminal act
• Grease patties help control winter mites
• Are glacier lilies and bumble bees out of sync?
• Sugar syrup measurement: weight or volume?
• What to do with all that tongue?
• Do honey bees sleep? Of course they sleep!
• Is it honeybee or honey bee?
• Buckwheat: a casualty of American agriculture
• Washboarding bees arockin' and alickin'
• More Than Honey—a film about bees and bee people
• Autumn: the time for harvesting propolis
• Goldenrod: a late-summer feast for the bees
• Plant a garden and they will come
• How to determine the purity of honey
• National Honey Bee Awareness Day
• Beware of false varietal honey
• The trouble with canola honey
• Chronic bee paralysis virus
• Confusion about escape boards
• Field bindweed as a pollinator plant
• Another denizen of the apiary
• It's not a good time to be male
• Winter feeding of honey bees
• Meteors zip across the August sky
• Candy board feeders for honey bees
• A taste of honey
• BBC News reports on bees in Paris
• Mischievous proliferous: the scoop on bee poop
• Joe-Pye weed for the pollinator garden
• A sweet surprise
• Apiforestation: Reclaiming coal mines for the bees
• Escape boards: Separating bees from honey
• Tree frog in a bee hive
• Invasion of the hover flies
• Russian sage for your pollinator garden
• Piping, quacking, and tooting: It’s a queen thing
• Genetic diversity within a honey bee colony
• Chalkbrood disease of honey bees
• Cat on a Mason Bee Condo
• Robbing bees prey on the weak
• Bearding is often confused with swarming
• Uncapped honey fermenting in the comb
• Autumn feeding of honey bees
• The cyclic nature of honey bee populations
• It's time to think about over-wintering
• How to prevent swarming with a Taranov board
• In search of creepy crawlies
• Hover fly on Agastache
• A reader delves into the one-third question
• Yellowjacket café: the honey bee special
• Ventilation Part 4: The summer Langstroth hive
• The real estate market heats up
• Pollen: a tough package wrapped in color
• Pollinators smile and say cheese
• Ventilation Part 3: Warré hives take ventilation seriously
• “How do I kill my neighbor’s honey bees?”
• Ventilation Part 2: Special considerations
• Ventilation Part 1: A hive is not a tree
• Converting Langstroth frames to foundationless
• A walkaway split and the tiniest queen
• The swarm saga continues
• Pheasants Forever provides bee habitat
• Aswarming we will go
• Organized feet are a feat of nature
• Foundationless beekeeping in a Langstroth hive
• Hover flies pollinate flowers and eat aphids
• Extracted honey vs comb honey
• Hardy kiwis attract many kinds of bees
• Sweat bee in a buttercup
• Climate change affects nectar collection patterns
• Update to "Bumble bees are not just for killing"
• Queen cups: cut them or leave them?
• Can anyone identify this bee?
• Bumble bees are not just for killing
• The color of honey
• Bees pollinate one-third of what? Do we really know?
• A day in the life: why do I do this?
• A chair with a buzz
• The Great Sunflower Project continues to grow
• The queen excluder controversy: some things never change
• Pollen collecting behavior of honey bees
• How to use a double-screen board
• Latin 101 for beekeepers: What’s in a name?
• Yes, I actually did graduate . . .
• A different kind of bug
• Bees working a section super
• Sticky yellow bee droppings are a good thing
• Laying workers raise nothing but drones
• Honey bees cannot survive on dandelions alone
• Pollen traps require constant attention
• Pacific Northwest bees see sunshine
• Varietal honey: the label tells most of the story
• Update on honeycomb ice cream
• Using the Cloake board method to raise queens
• A bee suit is worth the money
• Beekeepers develop their six senses
• Too much moisture in the hive
• Messing in the kitchen with honeycomb
• Transgenic crops and honey bees
• Mini cascara flowers are now in bloom
• An “undercover” queen nearly loses her life
• Ten ways to help the bees, starting today
• Varroa mites feed on honey bee hemolymph
• Little mites signal that big mites will follow
• Reduce varroa mites by culling honey bee drones
• Honeydew: waste management in the insect world
• Follower boards in a Langstroth hive
• Preventing a swarm is not easy
• Bigleaf maples covered in moss
• Maple honey is a taste of spring
• Is it a swarm cell or a supersedure cell?
• Swarm prevention: a duel with the forces of nature
• A swarm of European honey bees is relatively docile
• Absconding swarms leave an empty hive
• Visitors to the bee yard
• Festooning bees: lacework between the frames
• Smoker fuels are as varied as beekeepers
• Will different colors help my bees find the right hive?
• Water droplets sometimes carry insecticides
• A sad day for bees . . . death of a healthy hive
• How to prevent moldy syrup in bee feeders
• Reversing brood boxes: when and why
• Mountain camp feeder: use for winter feeding only
• A modern Langstroth hive from top to bottom
• Sugar syrup ratios: which one to use
• Inspecting a new colony: what to look for
• Bees are infinitely complicated: questions please!
• Honey bee eggs in the brood nest
• Mixed brood comb
• Drones signal the beginning of swarm season
• Bee box terminology: what to call all the sizes
• Essential oils and honey bee health
• Strange comb in strange places
• Differing opinions: when to release the queen
• Plant a pollinator-friendly plant for Earth Day
• When to unite the queen and a package of bees
• My day in bugs
• Yes, Raid kills bumble bees
• An unwelcome visitor to the mason bees
• Baggie feeders and package installation: update
• Native bees are disappearing across the globe
• The types of hive tools
• How to install a package of bees
• Update on how to eat comb honey
• Foraging habits of different types of bees
• How to find your queen bee
• How to use a baggie feeder
• Never feed syrup during a honey flow
• What type of honey bee feeder is best?
• How to eat comb honey
• But bees did just fine without us for millions of years . . .
• Hydroxymethylfurfural is not good for bees
• Why feed sugar syrup to honey bees?
• We must take care of our pollinators
• More on painting bee hives
• Have you had your pesticide today?
• This is not a test
• What bumble bee is this?
• What is pollenkitt?
• Newly hatched mason bee
• Why bees pollinate plants that don’t need it
• Mason bees are not the answer
• How to use a slatted rack
• Do beekeepers smoke bees with marijuana?
• Heater bees
• Pollinators and vegetable gardens
• Tips for planting a pollinator garden
• Pollinator-friendly plants
• Poisoning of honey bee larvae
• What color do I paint my hives?
• Two types of reproduction
• The beekeeper's woodshop
• Monoculture diets and honey bee health
• Propolis collection
• Pollen collection by honey bees
• Water collection by honey bees
• Nectar collection by honey bees
• Make room for mason bees
• Urban beekeeping webinar
• Hives in winter
• A poison by any other name
• All the challenges are local
• What's all the hype?
• Well, it depends . . .