OIL & HONEY EDITION While working with the bee hives at the science center I meet many school kids, parents, grandparents and teachers. Often times I hear comments such as, “OH, look a beekeeper!”, or “look there’s bees, they make honey” or “NO, don’t go over there, they’ll sting you!”. The latter phrase is often shouted […]
Pollen And What It Takes To Get It
OIL & HONEY EDITION Bees are interesting creatures. They live peacefully together, thousands to a home. They work together to protect the queen, raise brood, clean the hive, build comb, produce honey, forage for nectar and pollen, control the temperature inside and guard the hive. It’s a process that begins upon hatching, when the newly […]
Honey Harvest 2016
Oil & Honey Edition It’s honey harvest time. Does the sight of this beautiful, golden nectar make your mouth water? It makes me want to open the jar, stick my finger in and relish the sweet honey inside. While extracting honey I usually end up overdosing on the pure, ambrosial liquid running out of the honey gates. […]
Exciting News – Essential Oils for Honey Bees
Oil & Honey Edition Wow! Essential oils for honey bees! This has me so excited! I find a new way to use Essential Oils almost daily for myself or my family but when I read about a product that uses the Eo’s for honey bees I couldn’t wait to try it out. As a beekeeper I […]
Queen Bees Continued
A few weeks ago I shared a post telling about the mysteries going on in the hive I call Queen Charlotte at the Greensboro Science Center. The hive was weak, few bees, no brood, and no sign of a queen bee. If you read the previous post you’ll recall there were multiple queen cells and before […]
