DIY Electronic Hive Scale Prototype




Two Nucs, Two Different Linseed Oil Treatments




Flavored Creamed Honey, Using a Raspberry Pi




Fall 2016 Honey Harvest




Update on Wax Candle Attempts




After Swarms and Hive Population: Lost Colony




Second Spring 2016 Honey Harvest




Spring 2016 Honey Harvest




Swarm Hive Update II




Artificial Swarms Update




Bee Smart Designs Gripper Review




Swarm Update




SWARM!




Tale of Two Queens




Moving Hives Back to the Outyard




First Spring Split




Spring Supers and Catching SHB




Spring Reversals




Bee Branding Iron




Linseed Oil Hive Sealant Experiment




End of January Inspection




Ask the Audience: Wax Candle Burning




More Lip Balm and Lotion




Bees Wax Cells Start as Circles?




Melting Wax Saved from 2015




Handmade Beeswax Lotion Bars




Happy Halloween 2015




Suprise 2nd Fall Harvest




Fall Feeding and Winter Prep




Fall 2015 Harvest




And We're Back




Honey Bee Sting Pain Index




Second Colony Lost




One Colony Lost...




Post Harvest Inspection




2015 Spring Honey Harvest: 28 gallons




Spackling With Propolis




My Goal: 5 Supers on a Hive




Update on the Demaree hive




Preventing Swarms: Demaree Method




David's Slatted Racks




Pollinator Honey Bee Mix




Wild Burr Comb, New Queen and Splits




Building Frames for the Nucs




Bee Smart Designs Ultimate Bee Feeder Review




Winter Honey From California




Opossum in the Apiary




March 14th Inspection




Hive Top Feeder For Nuc




Bottling the JAO Mead




Guess the Tracks In The Snow




Two New Nuc Boxes Ready for Spring




One of These Meads Isn't Like The Other




Vince's Hive Weighing Tool




Honeybees on Blue Diamond's Packaging




Hunting for Brood in January




Winter Solstice 2014




Bee Behaviors Preprogrammed?




Honey Bees Molt




Honey Bee Proboscis




Starting a Batch of JAO Mead




Beekeeping Glossary of Terms




Moving Our Bees Back Home for the Winter




Vince's Video of Robber Bees




Crankshaft Comic: Beekeeping




2014 Honey Harvest




Morgan Freeman is a Beekeeper




All Hives Treated, No Queen Loss




BIP Regional Micro Survey Results




Maeve's Trip to the Beach




1 Week Check After MAQs




Video: Adding MAQs To a Hive




Video: Mite Count Alcohol Wash




U.S. Creates Honey Bee Health Strategy




Update: Adding Wax To Plasticell




Outyard Packages Update




A June Split to Replace Lost Hive




The Packages Are Fully Established




Honey Supers and Package Checkup




Guerrilla Gardening: Blackberry Seed Bombs




Outyard Queen: Time for a replacement?




Packaged Queens Have Been Released




Guest Speaker at Blevins Elementary




Video Installing a Package of Bees




Just Waiting For The Bees




Why I'm Going To Start Treating This Year




Adding Wax To Plasticell Frames




GOT HONEY?!




Late March, Is Warm Weather Ever Going To Arrive?




First Inspection of 2014




Bees Propolized Wood Grain Pattern




Here's To An Awesome Spring




Shh, Don't Tell The Bees!




Bees Wax Lotion Bars




Bees Wax Lip Balm




They're Still In There




Snow and Sub-Zero Temps




Building Slatted Racks




Ordering Bees and Winter Ponderings




Bottling The Cherry Melomel




Happy Holidays 2013




Gaining a New Perspective




Honey Gingerbread Bee Cookies




Processing Wax In a Crock Pot




Final Winter Prep and Blogroll Suggestions




Lost a Hive at Home




Second Racking of Cherry Melomel




Moving Outyard Hives Back Home




Fall Inspection of Hives




Fall 2013 Honey Harvest




Thar Be Robbers Round Here




Followup To Queen Excluder Use




First Racking of Cherry Melomel




Why I Bought a Queen Excluder Today




EMBA & Monsanto Interview




Making Creamed Honey




Honey Nut Cheerios Advertisement




Making Cherry Melomel




Want To Trade A Jar Of Honey?




Summer Honey Harvest 2013




Marking Queens & More Swarming Attempts




Great Honey Robbery of 2013




Updated DIY Extractor Article




Honey Super Status At Home




Queens, Swarms and Honey




Today I Saw A Queen Bee Emerge




Moving Artificial Swarm into Full Hive




Hives At Home Get Supers




Checking if Artificial Swarm Worked




Artificial Swarm at Out Yard




Checking If New Queens Released




Checking on Hives at Tom's




Making Splits With New Queens




Moving Hives to the Out Yard




Setting Up an Out Yard




Rotating Hive Bodies and Snowmen




Cleaning and Reusing Plasticell Frames




Removing the Curse from Phoenix Hive




Dadant Open House Was Awesome




Dadant Roadtrip and Blogger Meetup




Encouraging Bee Flight Patterns




Bees Get a Buzz from Caffeine




Bees Detect Electric Fields of Flowers




Bee Carrying Propolis?




I'm a Finalist and I Need Your Vote!




The End of the Phoenix Hive




Bottling Blackberry and Fall Harvest Meads




BP Hive Has Brood and Bringing In Pollen




Can't Do Much To Help Them Now...




Blue Purple Hive Increasing Population




Marking the Phoenix Queen




Mid January Quick Peek




Providing Candy Boards




Counting Winter Losses (Already)




Ever Been Bitten by a Honey Bee?




Additional Filtering of Bees Wax




My Adventure in Melting Bees Wax




Video: How Skeps Are Made




Mid December Quick Inspection




Ask the Audience: Melting Wax




Second Racking of the Fall Harvest Cyser




Things I Learned in 2012




2nd Place Ribbon for Apple Butter




First Racking of the Fall Harvest Cyser




Winter Prep in the Apiary




Making Fall Harvest Cyser




Fall Honey Harvest 2012




Video: Guard Bees Protecting The Hive




Final Racking of Blackberry Mead




Blue Purple Hive Packing in Honey




Phoenix Hive Is Back




Sugar Syrup is Irresistible




A Close Up Look at Pollen On Bees




Checking the Freezer for Dinner Options




Bottling the Traditional Mead




Our New Baby Bee




Making Sunflower Seeds




Happy Bees and New Comb




PW Hive: Get Some Syrup Stat!




Apple Butter Recipe With Honey




BP Hive Finds More Nectar




Phoenix Queen In A Pinch




PW Hive Queen Doing Great!




Racking The Mead and Melomel




Summer Honey Harvest 2012




You Were Right, There I Said It




Making Blackberry Melomel




Purple White Hive Queenless. T.Y.S?




Making My First Batch of Mead




Adding the Artificial Swarm to Phoenix




Hot Dry Summer: Stealing From The Birds




PW Hive Chooses Their Own Queen Cells




Last Ditch Effort: Artificial Swarm of PW Hive




Update on Swarm Trap




Swarm Capture: June 2012




Queen Excluders: Let's Hear Your Thoughts!




Phoenix Changes Mind About Supersedure




PW Hive Still Threatening To Swarm




Phoenix Hive...Daughters Know Best?




Printable Hive Inspection Sheets




Why Swarm Season Inspections Are Important




Queen Found & Marked in B/P Hive




Spring 2012 Honey Harvest




DIY Extractor: How We Made Ours




B/P Hive Confirmation of Queen




EATMORE 3 lb Honey Jar




P/W Hive Is Up To Something




Phoenix Hive Queen and Eggs?




B/P Hive Appears to Have a Queen




Phoenix Appears to Have a Queen




Confirmation Split was Success P/W Hive




Product Reviews and Disclaimers




Bee Smart Designs Ultimate Hive Cover Review




Swarm Trap Built and Deployed




B/P Hive Check For Queen & Honey




Checking New Queen & Powder Sugar Dusting




Two New Nucs Arrived Today




Blue Purple Hive Queen Cell Check




Phoenix Hive is Queenless




Queen Released From Her Cage!




Blackberry Winter 2012




Bee Informed Partnership Survey




Re-Queening Hive 1 At My Dad's House




New Queen Delivery




New Hive Needs a Name




Yikes - Queen Cells Everywhere!




Adding a Third Hive Stand - Wishful Thinking?




Preparations for Spring Split




Super Just About Full...Already!




Spring Swarm Cell Checks




Preventing Swarms: Super Early...Way Early




Spring Reversal of the Hive




Finding Pollen in Late Winter




Build Your Own: Bee Hive Stand




Lots of Brood in the Purple Hive




Propolis: Nature's Duct Tape




Late January Inspection




Making Sawdust in the Workshop




9 or 10 Frame Supers - Thinking Out Loud




Remove Snow From Landing Board?




Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Short Course 2012




Early January Hive Inspection




Making Candy for Winter Feeding




Merry Christmas 2011




Happy Winter Solstice!




2011 Honey Supply - Sold Out




Mortician Bees In The Winter




Plans for Winter Months Ahead




Food Labels: Wall of Shame




Happy Thanksgiving - Fly Day!




Preventing Moisture During The Winter




Fun with an Infrared Camera




Results of NewsPaper Combine Method




Combining the White Hive




RIP White Hive's Queen




Video: Adjusting to Mouse Guards




Adding Mouse Guards to the Hives




Trail Camera Deployed




October 16th 2011 Inspection




Missing Tools, Crystallizing Sugar, White Hive Update




Follow That Container of Syrup!




Queen Accepted, No More Laying Workers!




Checking (again) of the White Hive




Releasing the Queen in White Hive




Given A Queen, Let's Experiment




White Hive Has Laying Workers




Protecting the Supers During Winter




2:1 Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down




Checking for Queen in White Hive




Fall Honey Harvest 2011




Evidence of Robbing at White Hive




FAQ: Ask a Beekeeper




Powder Sugar Dusting is Fun!




The White Hive Might Be Queenless




Video: Honey Bees Crash Landing In Slow Motion




What Are These Tiny Creatures?




Honey Bees Landing in Slow Motion




Bottling our First Honey Crop




Extracting our First Honey Crop




Making Honey Extracting Buckets




Hot and Humid St Louis Summer Nights




Natural Varroa Mite Drop Test




Progress on Capping the Super Frames




Using a Queen Marking Tube




Blue Hive Gets Second Super




Blue Hive Notices Their Super




Marking The Queen Video




Crowded Landing Board Video




No Vacancy in Blue Hive




More Syrup Please




Marking One of the Queens




Adding Second Hive Bodies




Pearls Before Swine: Beekeeping




First Inspections on Both Hives




Beware of Bulk Sugar Prices




Installing Our Nucs




Painting the Hives Different Colors




Using a Bee Frame Rest




How and Why to Feed Bees




Where I Placed my Backyard Bee Hives




How to Build a Telescoping Cover




How to Light a Smoker That Stays Lit




Beekeeping Article in Local News Magazine




How to Assemble Dadant Style Frames




Spring 2011 Dadant Order Arrives!




2011 EMBA Short Course




Build Your Own: Bee Hives and Supers




Starting Out: Package or Nuc




Birthday Surprises




Building Shelves for the Garage




The Secret Life of Bees




Collecting Bee Smoker Fuel




Today I Participated in an Inspection




To Buy or Build




My First Beekeeper Club Meeting




Introduction