Posts from the ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Category
It was raining cats and dogs outside when I got the call that my colonies of honeybees had arrived. Loaded up my pick-up with newly assembled and painted hives boxes and headed across the mountain to Dividing Ridge where Gene from White Horse Mountain Apiary was pulling more »
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First opportunity to check on my bees after this long winter. General observation showed honeybees buzzing about the entrances of every hive but one–a hive where I’d combined two weak colonies before winter. Didn’t have high expectations that they’d survive, but was hopeful. I pulled out a frame, only to see a large hole in more »
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Looking for a creative way to display our lovely honey that could also be assembled and broken down quickly, we scavenged flea markets, yard sales and our attics for these vintage wooden boxes. We secured them with nuts/bolts and “L” brackets, then broke them down as show’s more »
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Hi There! I’m Casey, the summer intern here at BumbleBerry Farms. With only a week in, I have had the pleasure of experiencing some really neat things. For instance, last Thursday we went out to a home in Berlin, PA, to remove a hive of honey bees from someone’s home. Karen told me in order more »
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Working with my friends Roman and Alvin to bring some new honeybees colonies, packed in “nuc” or nucleus starter boxes, to the BumbleBerry apiary. Here we’re hosing down the boxes to keep the bees cool during transport from Beeline, a Mennonite-run business in Bedford, Pennsylvania. Bees keep the inside of a hive a comfortable 92 more »
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There’s little in the beekeeper’s toolkit more essential to the trade than the smoker, a tin can of a device with attached bellows. The smoker offers the beekeeper a small window of opportunity for sting-free hive management. How it Works Beekeepers load the smoker — first introduced in the late 1800s — with naturally burning more »
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