Rush Creek Bees

03/11/2020

Call a beekeeper, not an exterminator!

While a new neighborhood beehive can be stressful for homeowners, it's an exciting time for beekeepers. They see it as an opportunity to collect more colonies for their apiaries.

03/08/2020

03/01/2020

It's official ...

Scientists and wildlife experts have added the bee to the list of species that are doomed to extinction in the near future if humanity does not change.

02/20/2020

Embrace the crystals!

There’s just something about crystallized honey that tends to make people nervous. It’s the polar opposite of the runny, translucent honey found in a plastic bear on grocery store shelves. Instead, it’s solidified enough that you need to scrape it out of the jar with a heavy spoon; its texture...

02/12/2020

Wanna help the bees? Leave the dandelions alone this spring.

The British Ecological Society is encouraging people to mow around dandelions, buttercups, and other flowering weeds to help pollinators.

01/24/2020

While we are certainly using less, what is used is more toxic.

Researchers studying insecticide use on U.S. crops show that overall use has declined in the last 20 years, but what is being used is more toxic to bees.

01/24/2020

An article everyone should read, at least the first couple paragraphs. One quote: "An investigation in July of that year concluded that the bees in Germany died of mass poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin, which can be 10,000 times more potent than DDT."

Beekeepers are sounding the alarm about the latest developments in genetically modified pollinators.

01/21/2020

Apparently, insecticides are becoming 100X more potent to honeybees lately :-(

During the past 20 years, insecticides applied to U.S. agricultural landscapes have become significantly more toxic—over 120-fold in some midwestern states—to honey bees when ingested, according to a team of researchers, who identified rising neonicotinoid seed treatments in corn and soy as the ...

01/13/2020

Mid-Winter Hive Checks ...

In this video we cover winter hive checks and supplemental feeding.

01/05/2020

Waggle dance ...