Saturday: The bees are coming today! To get ready for their arrival, I’m preparing their sugar syrup and making a homemade version of Honey B Healthy, a nourishing supplement that is added to the syrup. I’ll be teaching my co-workers how to be beekeepers and they’ll be installing the bees on Sunday with my guidance. Ray built us [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Honeybee’
Tuesday’s Tips — Fruit Set Problems in Squash
Posted in Bees, Garden, Garden Wildlife, Organic Gardening, Pollinators, Tuesday's Tips, Vegetables, tagged Bees, Bumblebees, Fruit Set, Ground-nesting Bees, Hand-pollination, Honeybee, Native Bees, Organic Gardening, Pollen, Pollinators, Squash, Squash Blossoms, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Or we might have titled this post “Why Bees Are So Important.” In January the press reported that scientists had noticed a significant decline in bumblebee populations in the U.S. — first it was the honeybees that were disappearing and now it’s bumblebees too. Scientists are not sure why just yet, but one thing they [...]
Sunday Zen
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Colorado, Flower Photography, Garden, Pollinators, Sunday Zen, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Blossoms, Durango, Flowers, Garden, Honey, Honeybee, Organic Gardening, Photos on August 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Got behind on my dates. National Honey Bee Awareness Day was yesterday , but just because I missed that boat it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be celebrating our honey bees every other day of the year. So let’s start today by being grateful for all that these insects do for us — pollinating more than [...]
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Bee Photography, California, Colorado, Flower Photography, Wordless Wednesday, tagged Bees, Blossoms, Honeybee, Matilija Poppy, Russian Sage on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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Tuesday’s Tips — Caring for Bees
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Colorado, Hive, Honey, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Bee Habitat, Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Bees Drinking, Beeswax, Durango, Extracting Honey, Honey, Honeybee, Pollinators, Water for Bees on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week marks the fourth annual National Pollinator Week. Bees are probably the first thing that come to mind when we think about pollinators, but there are many others that deserve our gratitude and care — hummingbirds, bats, butterflies, and beetles to name a few. I love honeybees best so that’s what I’m going to [...]
Tuesday’s Tips — Attracting Honeybees
Posted in Bees, Colorado, Flower Photography, Garden, Hive, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Attracting Honeybees, Bee Plants, Beehive, Beekeepers, Beekeeping, Beekeeping Supplies, Gardening, Honeybee, Jupiter's Beard, Plants, Pollinators on May 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I couldn’t order my bees back in the beginning of the year because the date of our arrival in Colorado was constantly changing. I really needed to do it in January or February before the apiaries sold out, but up until a week before our departure I still wasn’t sure when we’d be in Durango. [...]
