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 [...]
Another piece on hive theft, this time from National Public Radio’s Day to Day, but with a twist. Sasha Khokha reports that a California beekeeper, Brian Beekman, found that 128 hives had been stolen - a loss of approximately $40,000. Rather than sit by idly, Beekman tracked down the stolen hives on his own, ultimately [...]
National Public Radio’s Morning Edition reports that the theft of beehives is increasing. One California farmer had 180 hives stolen! Listen to their report here.
I suppose that this problem is to be expected in light of the problems beekeepers face right now. Has anyone in Connecticut experienced any problems with theft?
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 [...]
I want to expand the number of hives I have by 2 or 3. So far in my brief beekeeping life I have introduced packages (5 hives) and cannot say that I’ve encountered any difficulty in doing so. However, I was thinking about starting the next 3 hives with nucs. My reasoning is that the [...]
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 [...]
I have 5 hives, 4 of which are in the same general area. One of the hives has a large number of bees clustered on the outside of the hive for the last 3 or 4 days. Is this because of the hot weather lately? If so, how come the other hives aren’t doing the [...]
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 [...]
We’ve had some cold weather in the last few weeks, but in early March there were several days that were quite warm. The pictures below were taken on March 3rd.
I wasn’t expecting it to be that warm, but when I saw the bees emering in large numbers, bee fever got the best of me. In [...]
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