Total Survivalist Libertarian Bitch Fest

 I attempted to join my lonely queen bee and her few attendants with my strong healthy queenless hive using the newspaper method. The bees t...

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 are expanding the apiary! Going for an even 10 hives this year. The nuc is over wintering well and the hives that were struggling in t...

   Hubby built an anti robbing screen for one of the hives last night. I think this is going to work. The bees come out of the entrance of ...

 We have one hive, our Utah hive that we bought as a nuc early this spring, that is robbing all of our hives blind. This is the hive that we...

   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...

   We gave our new bees a couple of days to settle in and then decided we wanted to add a drone frame and go to a nine frame before they ...

It has been getting very cold lately and the workers threw all of the drones out to die. It's kind of sad seeing them all over the groun...

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...

I was soooo concerned about planting flowers that bees liked this spring. I only got a few reported favorites and figured I could add more ...

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...

My bees are getting feisty! I no more than opened the hive than one of them stung my little picture taker. So no pics of the frames or ca...

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,...

Beehive, painted and assembled....................check Bee book(s) read and studied.........................check Equipment purchased and r...

Ok so I know I have been pretty absent (ok, totally absent for quite some time, but who's getting technical here?), but there has simply...