Total Survivalist Libertarian Bitch Fest

Queen cell from different angles. This hive swarmed last summer before we bought it from a neighbor. There were several frames o...

It was warm enough yesterday to go out and check the hives for the first time in about two months. Our nuc is doing great, and that is th...

We lost a hive early this winter due to exessive robbing. We lost our Georgia hive that had always been so strong, the one that we had just ...

   Hubby and I went to check our hives this evening. Our medium hive, the one we moved back home is really packed with bees and honey. Doing...

   I moved my bees out to a farm/ranch nearby in a small valley that is much cooler and greener than my house. My neighbors were actually up...

Yeah, I know. That was a lame little pun, I couldn't help myself. For the last couple of weeks, Hubby has been building new beehives fo...

I opened the hive today, and boy those bees were PISSED. I was smoking the bees, I was smoking myself to keep the bees off, I was smoking th...

It is HOT. I am not complaining, we had too long of a winter to complain about the heat once we finally get it. But it is so hot that my bee...

So I decided to open my hive for the first time yesterday. Here goes nothing. Taking off the inner cover. The bees are all hanging out in th...

Ok so hiving the bees was a LOT easier than I thought it was going to be. They finally showed up this afternoon and I went into a panic. 30,...