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Habitat for Honeybees 22 Oct 2011 | 09:18 am
We've made it official: we're a non-profit association, pending 501(c)3 approval. (The paperwork is done, filled out, stamped and mailed, and now it's all in the IRS's hands.) We're Habitat for Honey...
Sucking Up Swarms 17 Sep 2011 | 08:27 am
Real gardeners can tell right away that we're poseurs. Lettuce we can grow if we buy seedlings. With seeds from my mom, we accidentally grew enough peas to share. Our squash, grown from donated seedli...
Replacing Royalty 17 Sep 2011 | 07:40 am
When a hive swarms, the departing bees take their old queen along with them. The remaining bees will have a new queen once she emerges from her cell about a week later. If there are other new, baby qu...
Bee Links 21 Aug 2011 | 01:21 pm
Chicago's O'Hare Airport had some unused land and since airports are all about flying, made this a new home for one and a half million bees. Sweet Beginnings, the organization that trains felons in th...
Bee Ambassadors 20 Aug 2011 | 12:15 pm
When you're as excited about bees as my mom and Yo, you invite your friends over to look at your new pets. Whenever we schedule a time to come down to do hive inspections, my mom asks her friends if t...
Hit The Road, Drone 20 Aug 2011 | 11:41 am
Pushed out drone Male bees - drones - are so lazy they don't even feed themselves. They don't clean themselves and they don't do any work, ever. All they're good for is just the one thing. Otherwise...
Pocketful of Bees 20 Aug 2011 | 11:26 am
What is good for bees is good for everything else. Once we put the bees out in my mom's back yard, it seemed as if everything that could hop, crawl or fly over, did exactly that and moved in. Along t...
George's Swarm #2 9 Aug 2011 | 01:44 pm
"It happened again," George said. He called Charlie about a week ago when a huge swarm landed on his cherry tree. Now he's calling again. "They're on a lower branch this time. Come on over." It was c...
Crutches, Compost and Yellow Jackets 9 Aug 2011 | 01:30 pm
Ants on a yellow jacket trap “I’m on crutches,” Philip said. “While removing a colony from a roof in Petaluma, I took a fall. Would you mind helping me inspect my hives?” Who wouldn't want to see wh...
Worth A Fly? 9 Aug 2011 | 07:06 am
Healthy Saratoga bees At the Santa Clara Beekeepers Guild, Serge Labesque got us enthusiastic about getting our hives ready for winter. That's not easy. Getting beekeepers excited is easy - just ask ...
