After a nine month hiatus, the beeblog is back. Our site has undergone many changes in the last few months, and at some point all of the image files for the posts were lost. I’m in the process of finding the images and replacing them, but it will take some time.
In the meantime, feel free [...]
OK, so we’re not the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids at Giza…but we’re working on it. The image below is from the satellite view of our address in Google Maps. About twenty-five of our hives, shown by the red arrow, are visible. The photo must have been taken while the sun was directly overhead, causing [...]
Stonewall Apiary is pleased to announce its newest project, Pollinationsource.com. The focus of this website will be to connect beekeepers with people seeking pollination services. Beekeepers of all sizes - hobbyists, sideliners and even commercial beekeepers - can register with the site, listing the types of crops they are willing to pollinate, the number of [...]
, a new book by Connecticut-based author Glenn Cheney, has just been published. Cheney, who is also a beekeeper and occasional contributor to the beeblog, describes the Pilgrims’ motivation to emigrate to the New World and the travails they faced during their long and difficult voyage across the Atlantic, as well as their first year in [...]
The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum recently contacted us about some honeybees that had made a nest inside of a caboose. I was skeptical, suspecting that it was a yellowjacket nest rather than honeybees. But my curiosity had been piqued, so we took a ride over on Memorial Day to check it out. The museum was closed, so [...]
if you’re a beekeeper, Kenmore is the brand for you.
A while ago I bought a Kenmore freezer. It lasted about 3 years and broke down. Sears said it couldn’t be fixed.
So I hauled the freezer out to the beeyard, lay it on its back, and now it’s a storage chest for my bee stuff.
So don’t let [...]
Here’s another photo of a cluster - one that settled on my arm. To find out how they got there (it was entirely accidental), see http://ct-honey.com/swarm.php. For more photos, scroll down to the bottom of the page. A video is available here: http://ct-honey.com/videos/hiving_swarm.MOV.
Here’s one of even more bees at the entrance. Not in a square, though. Stupid bees.
A reader asked whether we had any photos of many bees at the hive entrance. Here’s one:
I call this photo “A Perfect Square.” My bees know geometry.
In January, many of us look back on the past year and reflect on the things we did well and also those things that we could improve upon. What are your beekeeping resolutions for 2007? Do you want to increase your colonies? Keep healthier bees? Let us know what your resolutions are and also how [...]
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