I have a lot of coneflowers at my place, and it has been fun to watch the bees working them inte...

Thanks for all the calls on queens so far this year--it seems to increase every summer. I'm worki...

Hi everyone, The queen yard is back in action. Queens will be available throughout the summer--I...

The long-awaited warmup seems to be here. We're looking at 30s-50s for the next several days, so ...

The next few weeks are an important time to investigate whether or not your survivors need feed. ...

A friend sent me this today It's rather perfect.

Today I have a nice image of how Alex is feeding the hungry hives. The boxes are offset in order ...

All of our bees got their Apiguard treatment before the beginning of October, so hopefully we'll ...

It's been a while since the last update. I'm back at Mount Mercy University for the new academic ...

My favorite part of our business is taking care of bees. They're just interesting--it's so much f...

We are making some progress on mite control for this fall. We stripped the boxes off two more yar...

The rain falls again. We've had torrential rains overnight all week, and today it is falling duri...

Well, we've made it into early August. The colony average will be respectable, but it will take a...

I've noticed that a number of people coming to the blog site are looking on information about how...

We have a neighbor just west of our place who has allowed us to keep bees in his pasture/timber l...

Back in late May we put out our 6 5/8 honey boxes and started to await the first honey flow. We o...

This is just rude....and wrong. Spring seems to be here early this year. This is good. Varro Mite...

What do people do when the weather forecast is for a severe snow storm? Run to the grocery store ...

Hello hello--an update from overseas!!! I'm presently over in Scotland doing some research in Edi...

Along with brood production, spring pollen gathering is another good sign of happy bees. Looki...

Brood activity begins long before there is much to do outside of the hive. First things first...

The bees look good this March. The overall death loss will be +20%, but there are a number of goo...

So it has been a number of months since the last update in what has been going on in the bee worl...

I have good news for everyone that has visited the Ebert honeyhouse: Comet, the mighty beekeeper ...

The other day Alex got a really good picture of what happens with laying workers: The image show...

Several years ago I decided it would be fun to try raising queens. My first cells were not very i...

Well, it's starting to feel disturbingly cool for June. It is pretty comfortable for most people ...

We have been through a lot of queens this year. The splitting season didn't start out in a very e...

We are in the middle of supering the overwintered parent colonies right now. A good portion of th...

We ended up having a good splitting season. Winter loss was considerable, but the surviving bees ...

It has been a busy month since we dealt with package bee orders. I'll try to put up a few entries...

We are now finished with the annual package bee deliveries. The larger load arrived at our place ...

Our threat of snow last night passed us over. Windy and a bit chilly today, but no really bad wea...

It's that time of year again. We're still in the middle of winter but it's time to start thinking...

I've been back in Iowa for a number of days now. In mid-November I headed to the UK to do some wo...

The last ten days or so have had a pretty regular rhythm. Feed the bees, block the entrances, and...