Here are some coneflowers that I planted in my front yard to entice the honeybees. It turns out ...

The past several days have seen tremendously increased activity in the honey boxes. Our main hone...

http://www.ebertqueens.com/ After a couple of years of promising to develop an online ordering o...

The black locust bloom is usually the moment when we really want to have supers out on the strong...

After a vicious drought in 2012, we are currently flirting with a return to serious flooding. The...

This has been an excellent year for bees in apple pollination in this area. The temperatures clim...

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2013/05/02/us-bee-population-drop-result-of-mult...

A few days ago, I took a bit of video in a bee yard where they finally had an opportunity to go o...

It has been a long winter for our six-legged friends. At last, they are starting to have an oppor...

I just spotted this article about the Iowa Food Coop, and I noticed that our honey is on the shel...

Late March is looking a lot like February. The temperatures are not as chilly as February, but ce...

It was sunny and in the 30s today, so I headed out and checked a few hives today. I always check ...

http://www.culturalcorridor.org/calendar_details.asp?R=363708 I will give a presentation on the ...

Last night, I spoke for the Back-to-Basics bee club. They have a thriving group of beekeepers tha...

This seems like an appropriate image for a chilly start to February. I mostly have telescoping li...

Well, we certainly aren't having a winter quite as balmy as the last one. There have been periodi...

I have just returned from another winter venture that furthered my research on beekeeping history...

The present winter has kicked off quite like the last one. November and December have both had te...

Once again I've returned to my professorial life at Mount Mercy, so I've wound up queen sales for...

I've had a number of people searching for Woodman Extractors arriving at this blog, so I wanted t...

Today I'll highlight a couple of the venues that use Ebert Honey in food products. I tend to have...

Those who predicted a drought for 2012 were certainly on the mark. The beans and corn are close t...

Good news, there is a very strong honey flow in progress here around Cedar Rapids. The overwinter...

I've spent the past couple of weeks going around and checking queen acceptance in my splits and v...

For folks looking for 2012 queens, I have a good number of Carniolans and Italians available. My ...

You have probably seen many pictures of honeybees flying around or in a beehive. This video is a ...

I decided to post a couple of pictures that show exactly how industrious the bees have been able ...

The winter of 2011-2012 was pretty much nonexistent. We had a couple of weeks of colder weather h...

It's package bee season once more at Ebert Honey Co., so I've copied a note from Phil. Call him ...

Thanks to everyone across the US who ordered queens this year! I hope they keep your hives happy ...

We are well along with the 2011 honey harvest, and treatments for varroa mites are underway. The ...

The other day Alex and I went up to pickup some bee equipment in northern Iowa. One of the items ...

The San Diego adventure concluded last night, and I recalled that one of our first site-seeing st...

Alex and I are out in San Diego for a few days because he is competing in the State Games of Amer...

I use the three-deep method of building queen cells. The basis of the system is a queen-right col...

I decided that I had better get some more Carniolan queens on hand for people that need immediate...