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 [...]
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The Bees Are Back!
Posted in Bee Photography, Beekeeping, Bees, Garden, Gardening in Colorado, Hive, Organic Gardening, Pollinators, WIldlife Habitat, tagged Bee Habitat, Beehive, Beekeepers, Beekeeping, Durango, Gardening, Honey B Healthy Recipe, Honeybee, Nature Photography, Organic Gardening, Top Bar Hive on April 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Garden Journal — Block Island Bees
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Block Island, Garden, Garden Journal, Hive, Honey, tagged Bee Suit, Beehive, Beekeeping, Block Island, Honey, Honeybee, Nectar, Top Bar Hive on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mary Beth and I have been trying to push ourselves to blog more often so in the past few months we’ve created several regular features. One is Sunday Zen, a photographic time-out where we go into the garden, usually ours, but sometimes other public and private gardens, and take photographs that reflect our mood. Tuesday’s [...]
Suped Up TBH
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Block Island, Colorado, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Honey, Honeybee, Langstroth Beehive, Nectar, Queen Bee, Spring, Swarm, Top Bar Hive on May 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Mary Beth: This will be my last bee update from Block Island for a while because Ray and I are on the road. Durango, here we come!. Monday, May 3: The apple trees are blooming on the Island. The buds started opening up around April 27th, which is really early. As I mentioned in an [...]
Bee Update — Good News, Bad News
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Block Island, Hive, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Brood, Drone Cells, Honeybee, Top Bar Hive, Varroa Mite on April 16, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Mary Beth: Good news first. I found eggs and it looks like a good mix of brood with a few drone cells mixed in. Yeah! Bad news. I saw a varroa mite on one of my bees! I’ve poured over my photos and I’ve only seen the one bee with a mite. What a sad [...]
Bee Spring Updates
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Block Island, Hive, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Bees in Flight, Block Island, Honey Comb, Photographs, Pollen, Queen Bee, Red Maple Pollen, Spring, Sugar Syrup, Top Bar Hive on April 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Mary Beth: With the weather calm and warm since the heavy rainstorms came through last week everything is exploding into life. The bees aren’t drinking as much sugar syrup and they’re beginning to bring in large amounts of pollen. The major source seems to be the red maples. I added a few bars to the [...]
Tips from My First Beekeeping Year
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Hive, Honey, tagged Bee Suit, Beehive, Beekeepers, Beekeeping, Beekeeping Supplies, Beekeeping Tips, Bees, Block Island, Gardening, Honey, Top Bar Hive on February 6, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Mary Beth: It was a year ago that I got serious about beekeeping; I had just put in my order for a package of honeybees and I was so excited. But I really had no clue about what I was getting myself into (neither did my husband!). Sure I’d read a lot and spent countless [...]
What About the Bees?!
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Butterfly, Colorado, Garden, Hive, Honey, tagged Bee Candy, Bee Food, Bee Habitat, Beehive, Beekeepers, Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, Drones, Flowers, Garden, Honey, Honeybee, Nectar, Organic, Pollen, Pollinators, Robber Bees, Swarm, Top Bar Hive, Wildflowers on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mary Beth: Winter is coming, I think, and even though the weather continues to be unusually warm for this time of year, I’ve been getting the bees ready. So, what about the bees? Every time I tell someone that Ray and I are moving back to Colorado (Ch, Ch, Changes), I hear this question. I’ll [...]
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