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Frame-of-pollen. Bill Hesbach.

Can a colony collect too much pollen?

April 7, 2015

3 min read

Nomada-Mima-Mounds-2

wild bees and native bees

Nomada bees: the home invasion specialists

April 6, 2015

3 min read

A lewd and lascivious swim in the soup

April 1, 2015

2 min read

Picture of bee-collected pollen pellets. Pollen substitute does not contain real pollen, but it contains the nutrients bees need.

Can I collect pollen from a Flow hive?

March 31, 2015

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

wild bees and native bees

A mason bee condo won’t “save the bees”

March 29, 2015

6 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

honey bee management

When can I get honey from my Flow hive?

March 26, 2015

7 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

rants • writing and blogging

A letter to sticky-fingered beekeepers

March 23, 2015

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

Video: Oxalic acid trickling

March 21, 2015

1 min read

gardening for bees • how to

How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden

March 19, 2015

5 min read

A white honey bee pupa with several varroa mites.

how to • varroa mites

How to do an oxalic dribble, even on cold days

March 16, 2015

6 min read

Oxalic-acid

Oxalic acid approved for Varroa mites

March 14, 2015

2 min read

Comb honey with instructions attached

March 11, 2015

3 min read

Honey-bee-on-boxwood

An act of defiance: plant a flower

March 9, 2015

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

wild bees and native bees

A honey bee, not

March 5, 2015

4 min read

Two-bees-going-home

postmortems & mysteries

Colony postmortem #2

March 3, 2015

8 min read

Osmia rufu mating threesome

Mason bee “menage a trois”

March 2, 2015

2 min read