What Should I Be Doing With My Bees This Month?

This blog is for beekeepers in Northern climates. I will be describing what I am doing with my bees on a monthly schedule. Copying any text or photos is forbidden except with written authorization of the author.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

How is the cluster dealing with the cold

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This is from beekeeper Paul's hive. He has a thermometer in the hive. Sometimes it can be a little deceiving on the internal hive temper...

Warm this weekend

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This weekend is a good time to check if your bees are alive. Go out in the warmest part of day. The bees may be going on cleansing flights s...

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Global Bee Deaths Are Blamed On The Wrong Culprit

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https://www.inverse.com/article/52843-whats-killing-the-bees-really-i-mean-it Interesting Article. The website is a little painful.

Friday, January 25, 2019

Brrrrrrrrr - We are in the deep freeze

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Oh, baby it's cold outside. The winter up to this point has been easy on the bees. Many beekeepers have been seeing their bees alive and...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Super Super Sale

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We are offering 10 frame assembled, painted deeps or painted supers with 10 assembled frames and foundation. Deeps.......... $45.00 each (r...

Monday, January 14, 2019

2019 Bee Order Form

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Package Bees Ready For Pickup The 2019 order form is now available. It is in the upper right hand corner of this blog under links. or o...

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Looking back on 2018

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2018 has now past us by, so I think it is appropriate to go back and look how our beekeeping year was. January was not bad. Minus 13 to a ...

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Jim: Stillwater, Minnesota; I have kept bees for 28 years and run 25 colonies. We have changed our business name to Bees and Honey LLC. We are still selling honey at our Stillwater location. Honey fills (still in Stillwater) anytime but please call

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