Kat's Miss Bee Hivin'

09/05/2026

Laundry day….tomorrow

08/30/2026

Buzzies

08/29/2026

Couple of us bee-u-tiful beekeeping gals went to the recent movie about a honey heist …. The movie … not what we had expected…. at all.
But a fantastic night out for dinner and laughs!
Thanks Elaine for the photo talent! I love how we are so clean and looking fantastic in our bee suits!… some with flip flops too!
Posted on the Bee company that had their bees in the movie.

08/15/2026

OK, maybe one more

Matthew McConaughey plays a beekeeper in his new film “The Rivals of Amziah King," but working with a multitude of bees on a movie set — about 40 hives containing 25,000 bees each — requires special training and skills.

For that, director Patterson and producer Black Bear Pictures relied on local experts while making the film in Alabama back in 2023, hiring Birmingham’s Adam Hickman as a beekeeping adviser and lead bee wrangler.

Hickman, 40, is the founder of Foxhound Bee Company, arguably the best-known beekeeping business in Alabama. Read more about how Hickman found himself wrangling bees for a Hollywood film at the link in the comments.

08/14/2026

Ok last one🤣🤣🤣

08/14/2026

Seriously, Matthew McConaughey and Bees? 🍿🍿🥤

08/14/2026

Haha!
Wouldn’t that just be fun?!!!!

08/13/2026

An afternoon in the buzzies…
With a WTF #731….
Gabee, the blue queen.
So calm.
Last month after a formic mite treatment she was laying up a storm… then I found charged queen cells, which means something is going to happen with her and she might be sleeping with the flowers soon.
I decided to pull the cells and move them to a colony that was needing a queen.
Went back in 5 days - more charged cells.
So I left them to do what bees do.
Last week I saw the new queen and didn’t think anything more, she is laying, didn’t check the last 3 honey and pollen frames.

This inspection I see blue queen!
WTF! Check notes
WTF! Then on the same frame… her daughter!
A first for me!!!!!
Multiple choices on how to move forward.
Will decide today…..
Pretty cool though!!!!!

08/13/2026

I bought a small fruit press to see if it could squish those last bits of honey out of the wax.
(I have always kept the last scrapings from the tanks etc. for personal use.)
My thought was to then let the bees do the final clean up so processing the wax would be easier.

I was happy with the result!

Yup a few steps to be tweaked.

08/12/2026